Halong Bay. We were picked up from our lovely super friendly hotel (!) in Hanoi early the next morning and got a mini bus to Halong City which took about 3 hours. It was a fine journey...nothing to report there...i may have slept. Oh we did stop for a loo break along the way at a place with glass doors and an attendant who opened the door whenever she thought you should be finished! We had heard some horror stories about people waiting for hours to get an a bo...

We left Hoi An with heavy hearts the following day and got on a three hour bus to Hue, where we would change buses to get another overnight sleeper bus to Hanoi. The bus to Hue was fine, no vomiting this time. I did get told off however for putting my feet in the isle...wasn't sure what that was all about till i realised there was a Buddha statue at the front of the bus and I was inadvertently pointing my feet at him, which is a horrendous thing to do in Asia. Oo...

The worst bus journey in the world and gorgeous Hoi An. We were booked on a 7.30am bus from Dalat to Hoi An (with a stop over in Nha Trang) but the bus we were meant to be on had broken down so we waited two hours for another. It turned out to be a minibus which would have been fine if we weren't in the mountains and driving at 250mph on a cliff edge, and if we hadn't drunk too much Dalat wine the night before, and possibly if there weren't 24 people squished i...

Next! Off to Vietnam. Jen and I left Cambodia the morning after my graduation, with a slightly sore head. We got the bus from Phomn Penh to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City...) which was fine and pretty uneventful aside from a lunch stop where i nibbled at what I can only describe as trotters with noodles. delightful. We got to Saigon pretty tired and over a mango shake decided to head straight on out of Saigon and go to Dalat, which is in the mountains. We got the ...

Farewell to Cambodia. Dtar neak sok sub bai dte? Hello! I am such a show off its ridiculous but I am very proud of my new found language skills and am using them at every possibly opportunity, especitally after an Angkor Beer or two.... I am now officially a graduate again and have passed my course, with merit obviously. It has been brilliant actually; I have really really enjoyed it. The last two weeks have been quite challenging as we have been learning Khmer a...