As soon as we crossed the border everything changed so radically. We walked from the communist concrete grey immigration building to the intricately built Wat style building on the Cambodian side. The people changed from light skinned girls to dark, interesting looking faces of the Khmer people. The city of Phnom Phehn was completely different to what we expected from reading a book called "Off The Rails In Phonm Pehn" when the writer describes the &quo...

It felt so good to be sat on the back of a bike, bag strapped to the back and everything you need, riding through the stunning Vietnamese countryside and our guide was brilliant. He stopped at some tribal villages along the way and stopped while going on a mountain pass to see the scars left by the US army after dropping Asia Orange on the hills. Most of the vegetation was a dark lushes green but in between this were huge patches of luminous green bushes where th...

After a trip back to Hanoi we boarded our night bus to Hoi An and I've never had so much confusion simply getting on a bus. First we took a mini bus to a larger bus which took us to the night bus, which we then had to run for as it was nearly full to get a place and all this time we could see about 40 other travelers who were on the big bus that were all meant to be on our bus but because it was already full they just had to wait with all their luggage on the sid...

After arriving from Vang Vieng we spent a lovely few days round Luang Prabang. A really pretty world heritage town with typical Loa style ambiance of chilled out relaxed people. They had a really cool night market dubbed the calmest market in Asia, its true you probably get hassled more walking around Union Streets indoor market on a Saturday morning than this huge night market in south east Asia. We spent the majority of our time just chilling out...possibly the...

We headed to the town of Nah Trang which was a good example of extremely s*** urban planning. It looked like the Vietnamese version of the centre of Benidorm on the Costa del Sol. A good stretch of sand, ruined by sun loungers, backed by tacky bars that led onto a concrete jungle of hotels, restaurants and tour agencies with a dollop of bright pink poms mooching around. We spent a day at the beach which was a decent swimming beach with light blue warm water, a gr...