This day we left for a boat trip through the Mekong Delta, staying on the boat for one night. Boat trip through the trading floating village, seeing candy and rice paper being made. A canoe through the canels of the mekong which really reminded us of the back waters in India. Lunch and a quick bike ride to work it off. Bus to the large boat wher...

Whatever happened to Delta Goodrem? lalalala. So were up and out of our guesthouse early early, have to get the owners up to check out. We get on a posh bus and have some quality ipod time, and some quality air con time, both are very important i assure you. We had an over eager guide who wittered on over the bass of some choonage telling us all...

We have made it to Vietnam! We took the Mekong River from Cambodia through the border to Vietnam. The border crossing was interesting. They x-rayed our bags and we had to pay .75 for a health check which consisted of walking up to the window, paying .75 and walking away. Not sure what they actually checked. I guess that we were breathing. But th...

On Saturday set off from HCMC on a two day tour of the Mekong Delta that was to end up in Phnom Penh. It started off great, we went down to My Tho on a nice bus. Then we had to get a very small boat to the islands in the delta. If the passengers weren't evenly balanced, the boat would go VERY low down in the water on one side, needless to say I ...

While I am posting this from Phnom Phen, we are about to board a boat into Vietnam, so I moved my push pin on the map to our next location. I thought I would take a moment to describe the absolute chaos that is the traffic here. There are no rules. While there is occassionally a traffic light, few pay attention to them. Some cars do, few motorcy...

Part two of our Vietnam adventures: From Nha Trang we got on another one of those nice sleeping buses, this time during the day and not during the night. Being almost pros at choosing the right seats by now, we got ourselves some nice window seats in the rear of the bus. So far so good, only problem being that the driver appearently thought nobo...

Our boat to Chau Doc was due to leave at 12 so we got up ealry to head to the Russian Market to see if we could pick up a few bargains. Many brand names are produced in and around Phnom Pehn ie Gap, Columbia etc and the Russian Market was supposed to be hte place to pick them up at bargain prices. Didnt see too much of this stuff at all but an i...

Another very long day of travel, via boat, bus, boat, bus, ferry, bus, etc. Finally pulled into Chau Doc, the last major city in Vietnam at about 6:00. The bus driver explained to the bus that the rice had been harvested, and as a result all the "rice flys" have moved into the cities--which explained the previous night. We were warned that this ...

In Nam ... After a long day of traveling we finaly made it to Viet Nam. The travel was by boat so it wasn`t that bad ... and the company was really good. Travelling with Naasicaa and Treezy for a while now - they are crazy girls. And ofcause Maria whom I`ve been traveling with since Bangkok (after Laos before Cambodia).

After seeing the beauty and horrors of Cambodia, John and Anita next move across yet another border to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. A small bus ride takes them down a bumpy dirt road to a ferry... that transports them down the Mekong to the border. After passing through immigration... with no bribes needed I may add... another ferry whiske...