Siem Reap Vic, Dani and I left Phnom Penh early the following morning to catch the only boat that day that was travelling to Siem Reap in north west Cambodia. We arrived at the jetty at around 7am, with about 10 minutes to spare and since we had had no breakfast, I impulse bought some food from a lady at a mobile stall, stationed there for 'farang' such as myself. The 100-foot long boat seemed over-sold since almost all of the roof was taken up with peopl...

Phnom Penh Vic and I travelled to Phnom Penh from Ho Chi Minh City by bus, which meant we had to get our Visas at the border. The whole process was farcical, as they didn't need to look at my departure card (something required in each country in that area), then getting passport control to even look at our passports was difficult enough. The officer in the passport control booth just sat there, barely acknowledging anyone, while the queue before him buil...

The 7 hour train journey to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) went quite quickly, our seats were quite comfortable and were even given aeroplane-style food for dinner. They played a really weird movie about Kung Fu and football, which must have been sponsored by Puma, for all of their sportswear on show throughout. After, they played some really bad music, particularly of kids singing. I decided it was time for my iPod and a bit of Andrew WK to drown out the noi...

I got the bus in the evening with Vic and Einar, which was to last 12 hours until we arrived in Nha Trang. I actually caught some sleep and was only awoken for the odd toilet stop and hijacker. Oh yeah, some guy tried to hijack our bus when we stopped but our driver was alert enough to block the doorway, fight him and push him off the bus.We arrived in Nha Trang at about 6am, and following our 'hard-ball' negotiating skills, we managed to haggle down the ...

On the bus from Hue to Hoi An, I sat next to a Norweigan guy named Einar. He spoke very good English and entertained us with some magic tricks (he earns money as a magician aside from studying). The bus dropped us off at a nice and reasonably cheap guest house, so once we were settled, I chilled out by the pool (yes, it had a pool and a gym as well!!) and got chatting to a couple of girls. One was an aussie girl, Teagan, and the other was called Chloe...from the ...