SMALL WORLD Hoa Binh (Peace) Hotel $10 p/rm Arrived in Hoi An around 7am after our nightmare night bus and would you believe it... it was raining. Got dropped at the usual over-priced An Phu Hotel so set off to find our own digs. We had just about given up and were on our way to book a bus oughtta town that day when we stumbled across a street of hotels so quickly settled on one. By the time we got back out the rain had stopped so we went for breakfast and t...

NHA TRANG 27/09/07 - 29/09/07 Haang Ha (Yellow River) Hotel $6 p/rm As we were still suffering with the big city blues we decided to begin our trek up north. We booked an open ticket with a company called An Phu Travel which gave us a sort of "hop on - hop off" tour of Vietnam. We set off around 8 and stopped off in a beautiful town called Muine for lunch. Muine is soooo beatiful that in hindsight I'd have definitely made sure we got to stay for few d...

THE END OF THE INTREPID GANG 24/09/07 - 25/09/07 - Intrepid Tour 25/09/07 - 27/09/07 - Guesthouse After a 6am start in Phnom Penh (good job we took it easy on the beers) we crossed the border to arrive in Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) around lunchtime. The bus journey was one of the smoothest as was the border crossing. After sampling some local dishes (Mel was not keen on the noodle soup!) we set about finding somewhere in the backpackers district for the fol...

PHNOM PENH 22/09/07 - 24/09/07 - Intrepid Tour Left Sihanoukville in the birght sunshine (typical!) and arrived in Phnom Penh around lunchtime. Spent the afternoon at S-21 and the Killing Fields learning about all the terrible stuff that happened in Cambodia at the hands of the Khymer Rouge. S-21 is a really sobering place... a school that was turned into what can only be described as a torture centre... and the craziest thing of all is that this happened in ...

SUNNY SIHANOUKVILLE 19/09/07 - 22/09/07 Mick & Craig's - Intrepid Tour Was really looking forward to this part of the trip... as we were finally going to my favourite place... THE SEASIDE!!! Unfortunately... it rained!!! Went out on the first night to the restaurant on the corner of the three lions roundabout... wish I'd gotten the name of it as I had the most amazing dish of grilled barracuda (a fresh fish caught locally... which even Mel liked despite no...