After Nha Trang we got an overnight bus to Hoi An. After travelling on many of these we weren't too worried about the journey although we did have a bit of a strange one.The journey should've been about 14 hours so after about 4 hours it stopped at midnight in a restaurant. Usual story, minging toilets and food, probably the bus companies mates place. Anyway we took turns in getting off so we didn't have to leave our stuff. Rich went first then got ba...

From Ho Chi Minh City we took an overnight bus to Nha Trang. The bus was nothing like those in South America more like the greyhounds in Australia really. Very uncomfortable and difficult to get any sleep especially when the driver has his hands depressed on the horn for much of the journey!. Anyway we arrived the next day at about 6.30am. Nha Trang is renowned to have one of the most beautiful coast lines in the world. It is also known for its ex...

Leaving Phnom Penh we made the six hour journey north to Siem Reap. Siem Reap is a big tourist town, known for it's locality to the famous Angkor ruins, the site of a series of capital cities of the Khmer Empire for much of the period from the 9th to the 15th century A.D.The ruins are located amid forests and farmland a short drive from Siem Reap, mostly covering an area of about fifteen miles east to west and about five miles north to south, though some ruin...

We took a short flight from Vientiane to Phnom Penh. We think this saved us a hard three day travel overland. Also because we flew into Cambodia we avoided any trouble with the border police and were issued our Visas without extra expense or hassle.Phnom Penh is the capital city of Cambodia, over 2 million Cambodians live there. Unfortunately Phnom Penh's most famous resident was Pol Pot and the mass genocide he created between 1975 and 1979.When Pol Pot retu...

After an exhausting day tubing down the river sipping Laos beer (yes I know you all feel sorry for us!), we took a bus from Vang Vieng to Vientiane. Vientiane is the capital city of Laos, we thought we'd spend a couple of days here to have a quick look around and organise our route out to Cambodia. When we arrived the city was like a ghost town. Many of the shops were closed due to New Year and so we wandered around aimlessly for a while trying to figure ou...