Day 28 - 30 Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)The bus journey from Sihanoukville to Siem Reap takes the whole day.The scenery of buffalo, sugar palm trees, and rice fields float by.Cambodia and especially the people grow on you and it feels more isolated from the rest of the world than Vietnam.Siem Reap is famous for the temples at nearby Angkor Wat.We are staying in a small resort in a wooden bungalow out of town with its own swimming pool.We wanted to make sure we could co...

Day 24 - 27 SihanoukvilleAn early start and another coach trip.Our destination is Cambodia's one and only beach resort in the south west - Sihanoukville or as the locals call it, "Snooky" .The journey is only broken so that the coach driver can offer bananas to the gods at a roadside shrine before throwing lucky holy water over the front of the bus.With the god of coach drivers appeased I feel much more relaxed as we undertake some adventurous overtakin...

Day 22 - 23 Phnom PenhThree weeks into the trip and we are one day ahead of our original plan.Almost every thing has gone to plan and the closest thing to an emergency was when I left my passport on the train at the Chinese/ Vietnam border.At this point we were going to spend 3 days exploring the Mekong delta before heading to Cambodia, however the prospect of 3 days on a boat chugging around in the heat does not appeal.We are spending at least a couple of night ...

Day 19 - 22 Hoi AnWe spent a total of four days in Hoi An in a nice little hotel with traditional furnishings overlooking a rice paddy.This was lucky because for the first two days we were almost stranded in the hotel due to torrential non-stop rain.At one stage it was impossible to cross the road in front of the hotel as it had become a river a foot deep.I think we are pretty relaxed now as we were happy to chill out in our room reading and watching cheesy US mo...

Day 16 - 18 Halong Bay We booked on to a 2 day 1 night package tour on the "Pinta" cruiser around Halong Bay which is three and half hour drive from Hanoi with the obligatory stop at a ceramics factory where you can see the slave labour at work and the prices are inflated by four times. Although the boat, which is a reconstruction of an old vietnamese junk, can accommodate 16, we are in fact only a group of four for this trip so we basically have th...