Arriving in Hoi An, we took our French friends' advice and stayed at a nice little hotel called the Sun Flower Inn (cheap room overlooks the pool). Our first day in Hoi An we walked around the small town and [unavoidably] succumbed to the tailors that line the street. Rooftop dinner overlooking the river through town preceded a quick dip in the pool before settling down. The next day we rented a motorbike and toured the beaches and a small sectio...

Our guide company escorted us and 10 others (including 2 new Frenchy friends we met sharing a cab) to Halong Bay City, Vietnam, where we boarded a small tug-like boat which lifted us to our cruise ship... a 100' 8-cabin boat, with all the luxury of a dingy offshore Vietnamese cruise-liner (+air conditioning). We spent 2 nights and 3 days traveling around Halung Bay's huge, yet shallow, area. The bay was dotted with more islands - shooting almost strai...

Huay Xai serves as the less glamorous of two border towns, one in Laos, one on Thailand - of course in the former. It is little more than a couple of ferry landings, a customs office, a handful of sub-par guesthouses, and [most significantly to us] The Gibbon Experience headquarters. We checked in the day before our 'experience.' The next morning we woke up and drove with our guides about two hours south, then hiked another 3 hours to our camp (incl...

After arriving at 'Treetop Ecolodge' we rented a scooter to more quickly negotiate the Cambodian highlands. We rode an elephant to a waterfall, and wrapped up the day with a swim with the locals in a pristine crater lake. The next day we checked out and made our way to Don Det, Laos. The travel time was about 8 hours - including bribery and being charged American-Tax (cost of a westerner, especially American, to come into a communist country). We ar...

When we first arrived in Siem Reap, we tried to see "the lake." Unbeknownst to us, through a series of miscommunications we find ourselves talked into going on some very expensive trip to some floating village. It was not very expensive, and had we known how spectacular it would be, we would have gone regardless of prices or miscommunications. We were escorted by boat by two charming Cambodians (of course we talked them into a few Angkors (national beer) f...