Hello from Cambodia! We left the floating hotel in the Mekong delta and sailed up the river. It was a beautiful day - bright and sunny, and the delta was so lush and green. We arrived at the border a couple hours later and dropped our passports off to complete the exit from Vietnam and to obtain the visa for Cambodia. After spending the last of our dong on drinks and snacks we boarded the boat that would take us the rest of the way up the Mekong. Two other girls...

Hello again! The last time I wrote I was about to take the first of two sleeper buses to Saigon. I managed to snag a lower bunk against a wall, so it wasn't as bad as the last sleeper bus. We were dropped off in Nha Trang early the next morning where I then confirmed the sleeper bus for the next night. Grabbed some breakfast and wandered around the beach for a bit, then lounged around and read a book. In the afternoon I walked over to an ice cream shop that ...

Hello again from Vietnam! So far I've managed to stay ahead of the rain. The weather has been beautiful for the past week and hopefully it will continue to stay so. For those of you who are keeping up to date on your tropical storms I will be far away from central Vietnam by the time Parma hits it again, and by then Parma will only be a tropical depression anyway. Where did my last entry leave off? Oh yes, just before I left for Hue. Well, the Vietnamese sleepe...

Despite the typhoons that have been slamming Vietnam for the past week I've managed to have a pretty good time in Hanoi and Halong Bay. I had only planned to spend a couple days in Hanoi, then I wanted to do two or three days in Halong Bay, which I've heard is the thing to do in Vietnam. I spent the first day in Hanoi tracking down the post office, where I spent far more than I could afford, then spending half my daily budget on sushi and gourmet french ice cream...

Hello again, This will be my last entry from China. After about six weeks here I'm finally moving on. I'm of mixed feelings about that - I've finally gotten used to China, but I'm excited to be seeing a new country! Well, the sleeper bus to Kunming wasn't awful, but I had the benefit of having a lower bunk along the side of the bus which meant that no one was next to me. Also, no one on the bus seemed inclined to smoke, which was a plus. I've heard some stories...