We took a bus from Ho Chi Minh City to get across the border to Cambodia and to our destination of the day, Phnom Penh, the capital of the kingdom of Cambodia. The supposedly 6 hour bus ride became an 8.5 hour ride, our first introduction to “Cambodian time”. It was a little weird crossing […]Read Post ›
After approximately 27 hours of travel from Hoi An, to the train station in Da Nang, on a 22 hour train ride to Ho Chi Minh City, to a taxi to take us to the bus station for the 3 hour bus ride to Can Tho, we finally arrived in Southern Vietnam and the Mekong […]Read Post ›
We heard that Hoi An is the Venice of Vietnam. Having never been to Venice, we thought that meant it would be busy with tourists and have canals. While both of these assumptions were correct, we were not really prepared for the overwhelming amount of tourists and hawkers in Hoi An. I was told by […]Read Post ›
Sorry for the delay in posting, apparently Vietnam blocked WordPress so I had to wait until we got to Cambodia to publish my latest posts! We have found that we seem to enjoy the smaller towns in Vietnam that are not overrun with tourists. The ones where there are not many people who speak English, […]Read Post ›
We didn’t spend a lot of time in this historical city, and we found it to be rather overrun by tourists, without a whole lot to do. But we did manage to spend two days here, and took lots of pictures, so it’s time for a post. Hue was the capital of French colonial Vietnam, […]Read Post ›
We took a night train from Hanoi to Da Nang, the third largest city in Vietnam located in the center of the country. We had taken night trains going to and from Sapa, and had gotten soft beds, but the soft beds were sold out because a lot of people were traveling for the Tet […]Read Post ›
Sapa is a lovely town in the mountains in northwestern Vietnam. These mountains form the beginning of the Himalayan range, and are home to some of the minority tribal people of Vietnam. There are many minority villages near Sapa, and we took a 2 day trekking tour of a few villages. We started off in […]Read Post ›
Hanoi has treated us pretty well so far. We arrived pretty exhausted on Feb. 1, after 3 flights from our last island in the Philippines. We immediately noticed how different Hanoi was from our previous adventures: it is much cleaner, the highway from the airport was a relatively nice road, and the traffic seemed much […]Read Post ›
Our last major stop in the Philippines was Palawan island. We flew into Puerto Princessa and spent two days exploring the city and deciding what we wanted to do on Palawan. It is a long, larger island known for beautiful scenery, nice beaches, good diving, and generally pretty nature. We initially were thinking about going […]Read Post ›
We found a DIY itenerary online detailing how to get around Bohol on public transport, without using a tour, which we were excited about – most of the tours were at least 1500 pesos (~$32) per person without including entrance fees for the sites we wanted to see, which is more than we wanted to […]Read Post ›
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