We've had such a busy time and unreliable access to the internet since arriving in Cambodia so most of these blogs will be drawing on my equally unreliable memory. The trip up the Mekong was wonderful, though we were a little bit paranoid as we haven't been taking any Malaria tablets and part of the river is in the 'red zone'. So, well sprayed with insect repellent off we set, completely bewildered as we were being spoken toeither in Vietnamese or completely i...

Ho Chi Minh City [Saigon] What a wonderful place. I know I keep saying this wherever we go in Vietnam but this place is so full of energy. Even more so at the moment as Tet, the Chinese New Year, [The Year of the Tiger] is on the 15th February and preparations and celebrations are well underway. There are beautiful lights, flowers and huge tigers made of all sorts of materials everywhere. Butfirst, the journey from Dalat to Saigon. I have to tell you about ...

Saturday Well, Rot lived up to his word and not his name and gave us a lovely day out, very informative and good fun. We visited a silk making place and learned all about the life cycle of a silk worm and how silk products are made [fascinating, honestly]. Then he took us to a cricket and scorpion farm where they breed them for eating, some of our party of 7 were persuaded to eat the fried crickets but Dave and I declined, though Dave posed for a photo preten...

We booked our bus from Nha Trang to Da Lat and packed our bags ready for the off. We were told its a long arduous journey as Da Lat is high up in the mountains so we made sure the booking office wrote SITTING BUS in big block letters on the form, NO MORE SLEEPING BUSES FOR US!!!!! Why would they run them in the day anyway? Thursday Morning [We have now been here for 2 weeks!!!] We scrambled down our breakfast as the coach was due at 7.15 and waited, and waited a...

Well we can honestly say we cruised the South China Seas yesterday. Just because it was a bit of a booze cruise doesn't mean it doesn't count and we integrated with the locals when the captain of the ship [no less] took a shine to Dave. I'm not sure if he fancied him or was by fascinated by him or just enjoyed the company of a fellow lager lout but we were invited to join him and his family to eat at their table [they gave us some weird looking and tasting 'meat...