I wasn't too sure if i would do any diving when we got here. Maybe a couple of days & move on to the next place. Then I decided to just go for it & jump straight in at the shallow end. It felt very unusual to have homework to do when on holiday, but that wasn't the bad part - the instructor said no beer in the evenings!!!!!! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!! Having cried myself to sleep on night 1 I pulled it together & got under the water (having puk...

OK, sorry it's been a while but we got kinda bored & side tracked by beaches & diving..... We decided to take a 2 day trip on 'that' river (I'm beginning to think there's only 1 in this part of the world...) which conveniently gets us over the Vietnamese border to Phnom Pehn. It started off lovely with a brief minivan journey & a pretty decent Engrish speaking guide. After a boat trip across the river we first went to a Coconut can...

Massive! That's it.... We spent 2 days walking round the place & we still missed out a fair chunk of it, however there's only so much knackered templage one can take. We loved every minute of it though, even when it poored down. Lots of Lara Croft impressions - I look gooooooood in hotpants. Lots of conversations with small children "where you from Sir?" Ëngland". "England, capital city London. You want postcard for one dollllllllllllar?" Eventually we g...

Given that our last experience of a major Vietnamese city was less than impressive, this was a nice surprise. We managed to get one of the cheapest rooms so far, but also one of the nicest. A little guest house down an alley way that you would even realise was there! So we went to the War Remnants museum which has a whole heap of stuff left over from the Americans leaving, some good, some bad. We went for a walk to the more upmarket district & i finally got ...

Mui Ne consists of 1 road, or 2 if you consider that you can go North or South on it.... Said road is about 10 - 12km long & lined most of the way with bungalow style guesthouses. On the other side of the guest houses is the beach. It wasn't very busy so we managed to bargain the price down from $15 to $8 - but we didn't get breakfast & weren't allowed to tell anyone about it!!!!! After another afternoon sat on the beach watching the fishing boats putting the...