From Phu Quoc we took a long journey to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. We did mess up here and cost ourselves a day. We could have taken a much shorter journey but as we had to show proof of onward travel from Vietnam we rushed it and booked a ferry crossing from Chau Doc. We later realised we could have just crossed the border at Ha Tien (much closer).

We took a ferry from Phu Quoc to Ha Tien. Our hotel had packed us a breakfast but I accidently left it in our taxi. It looked so tasty too! It was really difficult to try and find how to get to Chau Doc from Ha Tien. Randomly on trip advisor I saw that Oasis Bar helped people with onward travel. I emailed Andy who got back to me straight away, he was a god send!

Once we got to Ha Tien Andy had someone pick us up and drop us off at Oasis bar for breakfast. He exchanged our money into American dollars ready for the Cambodian border. Getting dollars in Vietnam was all but impossible. Whilst places accepted dollars, ATM's wouldn't dispense dollars and banks wouldn't exchange our money into dollars and tried sending us to a jewellery shop instead so him having some saved us a lot of hassle later on. Andy also got us our bus tickets from Ha Tien to Chau Doc. He was super helpful, made it so easy for us and I would recommend everyone use him - genuinely a nice guy.

The bus journey to Chau Doc was gross. It was a local bus with no air con so we had to have the windows wide open. It was very cramped and the locals decided it would be a good idea to bring on bags of crabs and mussels...so yes the bus stank. Before we set off a Cambodian lady was shouting and screaming pointing at us...no idea what her problem was but she soon settled down. I think she thought we hadn't paid. Again, like every other bus journey in Vietnam, the bus driver loved the sound of his own horn, picked up anyone and everyone on route and took in parcels or dropped parcels off.

After a long and hot six hours we arrived. Trying to get off the bus a vietnamese woman grabbed my arm and wouldn't let me off. Very weird and awkward given that I had no idea what she was saying to me. I wanted to drop kick her for bringing seafood on and stinking out the bus. We booked into a cheap hostel (Hotel Dong Bau) for the evening as our ferry departed at 7am the next morning. The room was very stuffy, rock hard bed, no window. I wasn't feeling very grand going there, but after a sleepless night I felt horrific going to get the ferry the next morning.

There was limited eating places in Chau Doc so we ended up at the same coffee shop for lunch and dinner. It was actually quite cute and decorated for Christmas. We took a wander around the local area but there didn't seem to be much to do. We went into an electronic shop and found ourselves surrounded by vietnamese. They just wanted to chat to us and we stood for a good half hour chatting to the workers and some locals who also joined in. Google translate came in very handy. One of them loved Harry Potter and wanted to travel to London. We told him he was always welcome to stay with us and I hope one day he manages to achieve his dream.

The morning walk to the ferry was interesting. We went past a woman who had a cage filled with birds and she was pulling out dead ones. I made my feelings very clear towards her and continued walking. We also saw so many people doing exercise and working out. Some of the work outs were questionable, just swinging their arms around, but they were up and moving which is more than I am usually doing at 6am.

Thankfully I had two seats to myself on the ferry so I slept most of it. My head was throbbing and my stomach hurting. I only woke up to get off the boat to get my exit stamp from Vietnam, get my visa for Cambodia and for lunch. The tour guide on board sorted it all for us. We didn't have passport photos with us so it cost us £37 each for our visa (£2 of that was to bribe them) and we got through just fine. We were then well on our way to Phnom Penh.

The reason Ha Tien and Chau Doc don't have seperate blogs is because they were just a go through trying to get from A to B so we didn't really explore what they had to offer. Although I am not convinced Chau Doc had a lot really.