I seem to have got rather lazy with blog updates recently! We made it to Cambodia, and managed to get our visas done ourselves rather than paying off the bus driver, who pays off immigration, to do your visas without you present.... Dodgy indeed. Our first stop is Phnom Penh, it's probably not our favourite city, quite dirty, smoggy and full of people bugging you. We spent yesterday doing our classic city wander, trying out the markets and a few pagodas. One th...

The advantage of moving on to a country with lots of little stops is spending long bus journeys catching up on blogs and posts, as long as you can concentrate through the bus drivers blaring horn. And have headphones to drown out the, interesting, music choices. So Ho Chi Minh. I must admit I went to Siagon (it's just quicker to type) with a negative view of the place. It was the first stop on my last trip to vietnam, it was rainy season and I just didn't under...

On our last morning in Mui Ne I got a sneaky extra hour in the water before we took the 6 hour bus to Ho Chi Minh. I really hated this city last time, but it turns out exploring food and a bit of sunshine makes the world of difference!

I feel I should have updated more in Mui Ne, but we did a whole lot of nothing here for 6 nights! I spent a couple of hours each morning getting progressively worse at kite surfing, and then the afternoons were spent relaxing by the beach, the pool or eating..... One afternoon we ventured up to Mui Ne, because although that's where we were meant to be, Mui Ne beach strip is a good few km out of town. We got the local bus down and wandered through the back str...

We were originally just going to spend a couple of days here before heading to Ho Chi Minh and down to the southern islands, but it seems flights becoming too expensive actually did us a blessing and we keep extending our stay. The first two nights we were booked into a 12 bed dorm, definitely the one aspect of travelling we both dislike the most. Smaller 6 bed dorms are fine but larger dorms feel a bit too much. Luckily we had only booked 2 nights and after tha...