Trip: South East Asia
There are [13] stories from my trip: South East Asia
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Views [566] | Comments [2]
We travelled on to Siem Reap, a touristy but lively little town with a lot of great places to eat. Everyone is there for the same thing - the ancient temples of Angkor - and they don't disappoint. At 5am in pitch black we were picked up by our tuk-tuk ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 24 Mar 2009 | Views [515]
The beginning of our time in Cambodia was a disaster. We arrived at our hotel as arranged by the tour company, described as the 'Sinh Cafe Hotel' by all who worked there. After checking in we took a tuk-tuk into town (of course our 'free' night's accommodation ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 | Views [511]
The bus to Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) was, thankfully, uneventful and we arrived, found a room and had just enough time to arrange a 3 day tour through the Mekong Delta for the next day. We were getting the boat across the border to Cambodia so we ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [2631] | Comments [1]
There's really nothing to say about the town of Quy Nhon, except that we shouldn't have bothered going there. In an attempt to get off the tourist trail, we plumped for the apparently up-and-coming beach resort. After being the only ones dropped off ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [559]
Hoi An reminded me a lot of lovely Luang Prabang in Laos. The old town is a collection of pretty, narrow streets with colourful old French buildings. There are nice cafes and bustling markets and a million places to get hand-made clothes. We hired bikes ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Views [477]
From Hanoi, we caught the overnight train to Hue(pronounced 'Hway')on the central coast of Vietnam. On 'soft sleeper' benches which were quite comfortable, it was a fairly pleasant journey. We shared our cabin with a nice Canadian couple. The guy was ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 4 Feb 2009 | Views [303]
The trip to Hanoi from Vietnam had us in a bit of a panic. First we booked tickets for the 24 hour bus journey overland, glad that it was cheap and prepared for the discomfort. However, about an hour before the bus was to depart we had a quick look on ... Read more >
LAOS | Tuesday, 3 Feb 2009 | Views [383]
The next stop in Laos on every backpacker's itinerary seems to be Vang Vieng. We hadn't originally planned to visit there as we thought it might just be a bit of a party town, but were pursuaded by some other travellers' accounts. Unfortunately our original ... Read more >
LAOS | Thursday, 22 Jan 2009 | Views [450]
The day we flew to Luang Prabang was an eventful one. Firstly we nearly didn't make it to the airport on time. My camera memory card with weeks of photos on it decided to get corrupted, so I gave it to a guy in an internet cafe in Thailand to try and ... Read more >
THAILAND | Sunday, 18 Jan 2009 | Views [410] | Comments [2]
After another overnight bus journey we arrived in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. A city in the loosest sense of the word, the atmosphere is relaxed and more like an overgrown village in the old town area, which is enclosed in a square moat. The main ... Read more >
THAILAND | Wednesday, 14 Jan 2009 | Views [300]
Bangkok was another pleasant surprise. It was a lot more laid back than I had remembered it, and seemed so much more orderly and clean now, having experienced Indian cities. We had taken one of the overnight 'VIP' buses (not buses for nobility or celebrities ... Read more >
THAILAND | Friday, 9 Jan 2009 | Views [410]
We arrived in Krabi town on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. By then we had been on an overnight train and a five hour journey in a cramped minibus and were ready for a relaxing Christmas drink on the beach. The last leg of the journey was a taxi to ... Read more >
SINGAPORE | Sunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Views [420] | Comments [1]
We flew into Singapore and, if we are honest, the change was a bit of a relief. The country's drachonian laws regarding littering, spitting, flushing toilets and chewing gum are somewhat over-the-top but make for one hell of a clean city! The cars all ... Read more >
