We spent two nights at the Hanoi Backpackers Hostel before going early to a small village called Mai Chau. It was a 4 hour drive and I had been out the night before (quite hard!) so it was a horrendous drive, oops! The drive through the mountains was magnificent even if I felt delicate, although the driver was not taking any prisoners! High mountain passes with shear drops at mach 1 is pretty hairy! Just as we were pulling into the village on a table there was a...

Its been a while since last post because have been so busy but I'm going to try and catch up over the next couple of days so keep coming back. Hue (H-Whey) has only one interesting thing to do locally (there were motorbike trips to interesting places further afield but we didnt have time) and that is the Citadel. History-wise, you'll have to google it but more recently it was majourly destroyed by the US during the war. Other than most of the buildings being des...

Mui Ne was supposed to be our stop for a few days hitting the beach but the weather said otherwise. It was a deserted town! We arrived and went to find dinner but everywhere looked closed. After walking for a while we found a seafood restaurant with tanks full of lobster, crab and fish. It was as if all the staff were there to serve only us and they stood around talking and laughing (probably at us, that seems to be quite common. I think its joel, they like shor...

The sleeper bus from Phnom Penh was horrible. It was around 400km but due to road conditions around this area we were told it would take 9 hours. Due to leave at 0030 our pick up from the Lazy Gecko guest house was at 2145 but it didnt turn up until just before 0030. Bad start already! We got to the bus about 0100 and tried to settle in although we were worried about our bags which were stored on the floor below (where the staff are) as we had read about them ste...

The border was not far from our crummy hotel but the tuk tuk driver didn't take us directly there. Instead he followed signs for "visa centre" which was a building 300m from border control. It was a convincing place with a nice office but we had read online about various scams so weren't fooled. It amazes me how people get away with the scams they do around here. The crossing was fine and there were no problems getting into Cambodia. On the other side there was ...