We could have spent another day in Saigon either relaxing or spreading what we crammed into the previous day over 2 days, but we felt that wasn't productive enough so we decided to do a 3-day trip to Phnom Penh in Cambodia via the Mekong Delta in south Vietnam. It's basically where the Mekong river coming down through Cambodia breaks off into various distributaries as it hits Vietnam and reaches the South China Sea. We set off from Saigon at another ungodly hour,...

Having arrived in Saigon still reeling from missing out on the seemingly awesome Nha-Trang, we trawled around for a while to find the best value for money on accommodation. At the beginning of the trip we always booked hostels ahead and would go through all the ratings and reviews on hostelworld.com till we found a good one. But now we're just turning up and finding something off the cuff that 6 weeks ago seemed a little too disorganized for our liking. Clearly w...

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I'm falling behind again with this thing. It's mainly because we've been pretty much non-stop recently now that we're pushed for time with a flight from Bangkok to commit to. Anyway I'll try to make this one short because there are a few more places that I need to catch up on. Right so we organized a 3-day 2-night tour of Halong Bay from Hanoi. It's basically thousands of tiny little islands and some small floating fishing communities off the North coast of Vietn...

One of these days I'm actually going to put some or our photos up on this thing instead of using the default ones that happen to be on here, which to be fair depict the places we've been going quite well! So after a week of partying in Laos we were ready to culture it up in Vietnam, with the first stop being the capital Hanoi. But getting there was not so simple, the 26 hour bus from Vientianne to Hanoi was a f***ing nightmare. It was cold and well uncomfortable ...