So, it has taken me a while to finally get back onto the computer and onto my blog. A lot has happened which I will try and summarise! I'm in Laos now, finally! So happy to be here, I was definitely ready to leave Vietnam. Wasn't my favourite of places, so busy and crowded. Although, saying that, the last few days in Vietnam were nice yet also sad because I had to say goodbye to 3 really close friends I made who weren't travelling all the way through into Laos. ...

We left Nha Trang on Friday night for our overnight train to Hoi An. We weren't really nervous about the journey as we had already been on one sleeper train which was alright, so we sort of knew what to expect, but we were definitely wrong! Everyone crammed onto the train and we all got told to move off as people had tried to take our cabins. When we finally got into our cabin, it really, really smelt, there were cockroaches everywhere, it wasn't nice! Then Steve...

We left Ho Chi Minh City at 8pm and boarded our overnight train to Nha Trang. The train was actually a lot nicer than I expected. There were four to a cabin, we had our own TV and aircon, so it was pretty comfortable! The journey was meant to take 9 and a half hours, but we stopped about 3 hours into it for about 2 hours because the front carriage broke loose apparantly! How interesting! But I did manage to sleep quite a bit, so it wasn't too bad. Once we arrive...

After a long journey across Cambodia to the Vietnam border, we arrived in Ho Chi Minh city. The hotel we are staying in is actually pretty nice, didn't expect it. It's a complete change here in Vietnam, a lot more crowded and A LOT of traffic! It's very daunting trying to cross the road here, motorbikes coming from everywhere! One actually clipped my hand as it came past, so that was scary. Before arriving in Ho Chi Minh city, we stayed in a local town just as a...

I've been in Siem Reap, Cambodia for two days now and they have been amazing. We drove 4 hours to the Thai/Cambodian border which wasn't much fun, but I was so excited to see what Cambodia was like. From the one day I spent in Bangkok, it reminded me of Malaysia so I didn't feel much excitement for being there, though I knew Cambodia was a lot different! It took an age to cross the border and get all the formalities sorted, but once we had completed all of the b...