VIETNAM | Thursday, 31 Jul 2008 | Views [14]
I booked on to two separate trips from Hanoi- what were recommended by several people as the must-sees of Vietnam - one trip was a cruise along Halong Bay, the second trip was a trek in Sapa. Halong Bay Cruise Halong Bay is in northeastern Vietnam.... Read more >
Tags: haong bay, cruise, sapa, trek, kayaking
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 | Views [19]
From Hue, on to Hanoi, which is very similar to Ho Chi Minh/Saigon in the south of Vietnam. That is not to say that there are no differences however. I would say that Hanoi has certainly made more of an effort not to erode the precious green spaces ... Read more >
Tags: hanoi, halong bay, cruise, sapa, trek
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 15 Jul 2008 | Views [35]
The journey to Hoi An, central coast of Vietnam The train journey from Nha Trang to Hoi An was, well, uncomfortable. No sleeper trains were operating that day (if they do at all), so I had a seat in a standard carriage departing at 7pm. The journey ... Read more >
Tags: hoi an, hue, tailors, cooking
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [39]
From Saigon, I took a bus to Dalat, a former French hill station at an altitude of almost 1500m on a plateau in the Central Highlands. My time here was short since River, my easyrider tour guide, picked me up from the bus drop-off to take me to the ... Read more >
Tags: easyrider, river, coffee, silk, waterfalls, motorbike
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 2 Jul 2008 | Views [44]
My previous two attempts to update my journal have been scuppered by power outages. As a result I am nearly a month behind!!! Ahhhhh... So here's a summary of my time in Southern Vietnam... I made it across the border on the second attempt, this ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, ho chi minh, shooting range, nha trang, mui ne
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [84]
So, as I am lagging behind on my journal entries, I will zip through what happened after I left North-Eastern Cambodia. 20th June 2008 I left Ban Lung, North-Eastern Cambodia, in the early morning heading back to the capital, Phnom Penh, directly ... Read more >
Tags: visa, happy pizza, marijuana, killing fields, russian market, opium pipe
CAMBODIA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [66]
15th June 2008 Leaving Phnom Penh, I headed first by bus to Kratie (pronounced kra-chey ). I dropped my bags in a hotel and arranged for a moto-driver to take me to visit the Irrawaddy dolphins which live in parts of the Mekong River near to ... Read more >
Tags: ban lung, dolphins, kratie, waterfall, waterfalls, ratanakiri, shared taxi
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Views [76]
12th June 2008 I arrived in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, at about 6pm after a 6-hour bus journey from Siem Reap. I dropped my bags off at a guesthouse, and went out to explore the town immediately. I walked along the main road, which took ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | Views [68]
Background to the Angkor Temples Angkor is the ancient capital of the powerful Khmer Empire, which at its height of influence spanned half of Southeast Asia. Many of the 30 or so temples/ruins, which date as far back as 802AD, are set within a 25km ... Read more >
Tags: angkor, temples
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 7 Jun 2008 | Views [60] | Comments [1]
7th June 2008 Laura, Sarah (whom we had met in Battambang), Stephen and I travelled across the Tonle Sap Lake/River from Battambang to Siem Reap. The journey was not as picturesque as I was led to believe it would be, but there were certainly ... Read more >
Tags: angkor, temple, temples, tonle sap, siem reap
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