Apparently the beaches around the Vietnamese coast are pretty awesome and after the craziness of Saigon we welcomed some beaches. Fortunately for us, despite it being rainy season in Saigon it is actually still summer in Nha Trang. Deal! There are actually mega cheap and comfortable tourist sleeper buses that go up and down the country. You can buy an open bus ticket for about $35 and stop off at any of the main tourist destinations then just get back on when yo...

After a slightly chaotic, disorganised but otherwise smooth overland border crossing from Cambodia to Vietnam, our first stop in Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) or Saigon as most people still call it. This was where our bus from Cambodia took us and since it's so far south it was a good place to start and then work our way up north. When I looked out the bus window at some point, after being engrossed on a game on my iPhone for a couple of hours, I was surp...

So unfortunately for you the Welshmen is back on blog duty, hence the delay - but don't good things come to those who wait?! (probably not in this case) Anyway we broke up Phnom Penh into two segments since this was our central hub to get to Sihanoukville and Vietnam also. On arriving into the capital, it was just so chaotic, particularly the traffic with motorbikes and tuk tuks whizzing around everywhere. Getting off the bus was also a mission with crowds of p...

Since Bryan is on a blogging strike, you get three of my blogs in a row you lucky, lucky people! We actually went to the capital Phnom Penh first for two nights and then to Sihanoukville and then back to Phnom Penh. Not because we loved it so much but because all the buses go through the capital. However, to save the confusing blogs we're just going to write Sihanoukville first and the Phnom Penh all in one go. Sihanoukville is Cambodia's main developed beach ...

Our 4 hour bus to Battambang cost us a very pricey $5 which included pick up from our hotel and AC. I'm pleased to say the bus journey was entirely uneventful which makes a change! When we were arriving to the stop in Battambang a load of people, upon noticing the bus, suddenly jumped up, grabbed their placards and started chasing after the bus. Of course they were Tuk Tuk drivers all competing to take us to their commissioned hotel. Coincidentally we found someo...