When we got on the bus in Phnom Penh we found that we'd been placed above the front wheel, leaving no room for my feet. After asking the conductor, we were able to move to the front seats, giving us an uninterrupted view through the huge front windows. Once seated, we set off and left the city, soon entering the spectacularly beautiful Cambodian countryside. Although without the dramatic hills of Vietnam, the seemingly endless expanses of rice paddies on eit...

We found the coach we boarded in Saigon to be clean and comfortable, with huge seats which staggeringly afforded me enough room to fit in my gangly legs. In said comfort, we set off and were soon cruising through the beautiful countryside outwith the city, comprising endless expanses of partially flooded rice paddies with the occasional distant hill jutting out of the otherwise uniformly straight horizon. Above this were gathered the most magnificent formations...

We boarded the sleeper bus in Da Lat around 11pm and were soon on the way to Saigon. Once in our narrow beds up the back of the bus, we got off to sleep and didn't wake up until we were in Saigon, a bit earlier than we had hoped at around 4:30 am. As usual, we were dumped outside some random shop at an unkown location in town. We consulted our guide book and picked an area which was described as the main backpacker area, and seemed to have a lot of hotels, then...

We got up early to catch our bus from Nha Trang at 7:30. Conveniently, it picked us up at the end of the alleyway our hotel was in, and was a spacious and air conditioned large minibus. We set off and after leaving Nha Trang soon began climbing into the hills as we moved inland. We stopped for breakfast at a nice little cafe place above a river, where we immediately noticed the slightly cooler, fresher air thanks to the increase in altitude. After breakfast ...

The night bus from Hoi An to Nha Trang was much more comfortable than the one from Haiphong to Hue, with beds big enough to fit in and air conditioning that the driver actually used. Also, unlike the Haiphong to Hue bus, we arrived on time rather than 7 hours later than expected. Thus we found ourselves on a main street in Nha Trang early in the morning, and on the search for a hotel. We walked a short distance in a direction we knew would take us to the sea...