KAMPOT 4TH-6TH JANUARY 2007 There are no buses traverlling from Sihanoukville to Kampot so we had to take a share taxi. The taxi being a Nissan Bluebird and the share being eight adults squashed in a car for two hours! Kampot is a sleepy riverside town and is well known for producing some of the best pepper in the region. We found a room at Blissful Guesthouse which was great and only $4US a night. On the 5th we hired another XR250 to visit Boker. Boker Nation...

SIHANOUKVILLE 30TH DECEMBER - 4TH JANUARY 2007 After our Mekong Delta trip we only stopped in Phnom Penh for the night as we wanted to get to Sihanoukville for new years eve to be on a beach. We left early on the 30th december by bus, four hours in all. The big attraction of Sihanoukville are the four palm-fringed, white-sand beaches ringing the headland. The most popular strip being the northern end of Occheuteal Beach, nicknamed Serendipity Beach, to the sout...

MEKONG DELTA 28TH-29TH DECEMBER 2006 We took a tour through the Mekong Delta which was two days, one night and ended up in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (12 pounds each). We took a bus to My Tho City on the Mekong Delta where we got on a boat to three different islands on the Mekong river to visit the villages. Each visit specialised in some form of food or drink which we got to watch the making of and sample. The first being coconut candies which were so tasty, the ne...

HO CHI MINH CITY 26TH-28TH DECEMBER 2006It was about 3hours on a bus from Mui Ne to HCMC and when we arrived it was very busy due to it being christmas week. The cheap accomidation wasn't as good as it was in Hanoi and we ended up staying in a room down an alley above someones house, walking through their living room to enter and exit.Unofficially the city is still called 'Saigon' but officially after the reunification it was changed to 'Ho Chi Mi...

MUI NE 21ST-26TH DECEMBER 2006 Mui Ne is a peaceful beach town and offers a chilled and wlcome change of pace. We wanted a relaxed christmas and a nice beach, and had only heard good things about Mui Ne which is why we decided to have christmas here. Mui Ne gets great waves and is Vietnams premier kite-surfing venue, so it awesome watching the ocean. Also the weather is great here... we've actually found sunshine in Vietnam! The surrounding sand dunes help p...