After spending the last 2 weeks or so of Vietnam in long pants and jerseys, we were excited to get down to the beautiful south islands of Thailand to soak up some much needed coastal sun. So you can imagine our disappointment on out last night in Hanoi to hear about the flooding that had taken place in that area. Our dreams of sun soaked days were dashed by weather forecasts of thundershowers in the south for the next 8 days. Nevertheless, we flew into Bangkok wi...

The arrival in Dalat was after a short journey from Mui Ne and we found ourselves accommodation very close to the town centre. Dalat is one of the inland city's home to a population of just under 200 000. There is a limited amount of things that one can do as a tourist, but with the cooler temperatures and the old town setting, we did a lot of walking down the winding streets. We only had one full day in town, but made it a very full one. We went to the town's...

Our last land border crossing of the trip into Vietnam was marvellously smooth. We had organised our one month visas beforehand in Sihounikville and had taken the journey with a fantastic tour company that aided the process. We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in the late afternoon and were greeted by the hundreds...no...THOUSANDS of motorbikes clogging up the streets at peak our traffic. It really is something to behold - a city of 10million people has 5 mil...

Our mission to our next country was a long and tiresome journey that entailed a 9am boat ride, a bus ride to the border which ran out of petrol en-route, haggling at the border with the officers who were taking money from us for every conceivable thing - for getting our temperature read, for our visas and for exit and entry tax, then onto another fully loaded bus (to the extent that some of the passengers had to stand in the aisle) in a direction completely opp...

We only spent one afternoon and one evening in the capital city - It was really only a stop over to get to our next destination, Tha Kaek. Nonetheless we spent our afternoon there walking around the city centre and along the wide Mekong river. We met up with J&J for dinner that night. They had spent the day more productively by visiting one of the city's biggest wats, the SE Asia take on the Arc De Triumph and an enormous Reclining Buddha statue. They rewar...