Sihanoukville - Cambodia Sihanoukville is the main tourist costal town in Cambodia and boasts 6 beaches - although some of them are now privately owned and not open to the public. Money will buy you anything in Cambodia! When we arrive we go with the tuk tuk driver who gave us the best price, and allow him to take us to a guest house he recommends - it's cheap and near the beach but without hot water and air con. So he take us somewhere else up the road which...

Phnom Penh - Cambodia The journey from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh was actually our first land border crossing and it went pretty smoothly I'm glad to say. The bus company we were travelling with was pretty good and kind of shepherded us through border control and back on to the bus, although as westerners we didn't get any real explanation as to what was happening. This was most concerning when they take your money and passports - but we did as the locals ...

Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) We arrived in HCMC expecting it be very much like Hanoi but we were pleasantly surprised! It is a much more modern city, and the people are noticably friendlier! We arrived on bus (our usual method of travel these days) and we were organised enough to know of a couple of guest houses just 2 mins walk from where the bus dropped us off - so off we headed down a very narrow but busy alleyway which we otherwise wouldn't have ever...

Mui Ne So we weren't sure why it was a sleeper bus despite it being a 6 hour journey during the day! But we opted for top bunks this time and worked out that not all beds are the same size - so we found the best ones for us and we were more comfortable than before! Although this was tainted a little bit by a 1.5 hr unscheduled stop at a petrol station which didn't sell food/drinks! When we arrive at Mui Ne in the heat of the afternoon we assume the usual ro...

How fast can you run in flip flops?! We set off from Hoi An on a sitting bus this time! It was an overnight bus leaving Hoi An at 6pm and arriving in Nha Trang at 7am the next morning. After about 2 hours of travelling on the bus we pulled into a service station for a 'comfort break' (I would like to point out that there is absoultly nothing comfortable about going to the toilet over a hole in the ground, with cockroaches dropping on your head!). So we get off t...