We arrived in Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) after a pleasant overnight-sleeper bus journey of 12 hours. Being the second largest city in Vietnam and a former capital, Ho Chi Minh seemed immediately less charming than elswhere. The streets were much busier and much less clean than Hoi An, Hue or Na Trang. We got in a Tuk Tuk and decided it would be best to find a hotel suggested by our Rough Guide book. We arrived at a hotel called Madame Cuc (still lots of Frenc...

On the bus journey from Phnom Penh we stopped over for some food. The local delicacy, however, was not quite for us. All around me (Sophie stayed on the bus!) women were carrying around tarantulas ready for frying. A massive box live tarantulas was sat just outside the bus. To complement the tarantulas there were fried grasshopers, cockraoches and other such bugs. We opted for pineapple. When we got to Siem Reap we found a nice hotel (or so we thought) just out...

We got a largely uneventful bus from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh. There were much more people working the fields in Cambodia than we had seen in Vietnam, as we made our way through the countryside. The people didn't necessarily look poor, but there was a distinct lack of any kind of modern developments and the main road through Cambodia had apparently only been concreted a few years ago. When we arrived in Phnom Penh we had the usual barrage of tuk tuk drivers to...

We arrived in Nha Trang after our overnight sleeper bus which i found amazingly comfortable because i am little like South East Asian people, Michael found it a little more uncomfortabe as he is not. It was literally three rows of bunkbeds down the left of the bus and your feet tucked in to a little cubby underneath the person in front. We searched around for a decent hotel (the part of travelling i loathe the most). We found a nice place that said they didnt kn...

We arrived in Hoi An and were dropped off at a hotel which looked well over our budget so we tried to get away from it but the guy said the room was only 8 quid a night which seemed great and there was a pool and free bicylcles to use so we took it and it was lovely. I had a bath on the first night and it was the best bath of my life, such a treat! hehe! We got bikes shortly after we arrived and rode straight to one of the beaches, about 5km away. Really worth ...