The past 2 days on Cat Ba in Ha Long Bay has easily been our favourite part of our time in Viet Nam. It is peaceful, beautiful and relaxed. We were a bit dissapointed when we woke up Thursday morning to a cool, misty day and decided not to take the day tour cruising around the bay. Instead, we bundled up with all our rain gear and headed out for a walk. As soon as we were out and moving around, the air didn't seem so cold and the light misty rain didn't see...

Leaving the warm, beachy Nha Trang, it was a bit of a shock to get off the bus the next afternoon in Hue into cool, cloudy weather. The overnight sleeper-bus itself was great; Mark and I surprised ourselves by sleeping almost the entire ride. Taking the bus saved us a ton of cash over the sleeper train. We were a bit skeptical, but even though it was an older bus, the beds were quite comfortable. This double decker sized bus was all one level, and instead o...

Thursday night in Nha Trang, we took it pretty easy because we were both a bit low energy. We decided to splurge a bit and went to an Italian restaurant for dinner to have something other than rice. And really, both meals still added up to less than $10. It's funny how quickly you adapt to the cost of things here and think paying $5 for a huge meal is a lot. Also, the exchange rate can really fuel this - when walking home, we were looking to buy a bottle of...

Our mini stay in Phnom Penh is pretty much just a blur. Our bus was a bit late so we arrived in the evening and picked a cheap hostel in the center of the city. Focused on making our way along through the big cities, we decided to book our bus to cross the border into Vietnam for the next morning. We walked around a bit before having dinner at the restaurant in the lobby of our hostel. There was a huge temple at the end of our road and we happened to walk b...