Arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) at about 3:30 pm, absolutely starving, so just had enough time to check into a hotel and find some delicacies that this country had to offer. There are about 7 million inhabitants of HCMC and 3 million motorcycles, so you can imagine what the streets are like. Bikes everywhere, and I mean everywhere. There are no rules to crossing the road apart from 'don't run'!! As you proceed across the road, you feel like you ...

Had to be up incredibly early for the bus, so were in the lobby of the hotel at 6:45am waiting for our pick up. The pick up didn't arrive until 8:00am, so we were very pissed of by that point. We had to walk up the road lugging our backpacks in the morning heat to a s***ty bus which was waiting for us at the top. Everyone else from surrounding hotels appeared to have been picked up early as the 'pint-sized' bus was almost full and we both had to sit next to co...

Hi Everyone! I arrived in Bangkok early afternoon after a pleasant flight with Air Asia from Singapore. I was expecting the flight to take 1.5 hours, but I didn't factor in the time difference, so it was actually 2.5 hours, which was still fine, but I was starving as I hadn't packed any food for the journey and I had no more Singapore Dollars left! I jumped in a taxi and headed for Khao San Road to the D&D Inn, where I knew Daniel was staying. The hot...

I'll only be in Bangkok for a few days - enough time to sort out my visas for Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. If anything of interest actually happens while I am here, then I will add it to this postcard. Sx

So I've arrived in Singapore and loving every minute of it. Actually, I'm trying to make every minute last as I'm only here for 2 days - leaving tomorrow for Bangkok. After spending a month in hostels and living off a bus in New Zealand, I treated myself to the Mandarin Oriental hotel for the duration of my stay here. Very plush, I know!! I had a really pleasant journey here, although a tad long in transit. I flew from Christchurch to Sydney, waited ...