First, pics from the rest of Cambodia courtesy of Ms. Ansel Adams....I mean Tracy http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=yrxns91.6q6nsq05&x=0&y=-7ba08l&localeid=en_US And now the blog.... Ahhhhh..........Ha Tien, Vietnam.............beautiful, serene Ha Tien...............NOT! (are 90's references cool yet?) Yes, we knew Ha Tien is...

Everyone I'd spoken to about Vietnam said that it was very different in the South from the North and that was true. I decided to start my Vietnamese adventure in Ha Tien, right down at the bottom of the Mekong Delta. I only had a couple of days to spare so I hot footed it down there as quickly as I could. After my four hour journey on the back o...

In the morning Valerie and I caught a local bus from Chao Doc to Ha Tien, took over four hours to do 95km. So many people packed onto a tiny bus, at one stage I counted 25 adults and there was only 22 seats. I had one so was stoked even though it was made for someone 5 foot 6. Roads were crummy and aircon was opening the windows. But still enjoy...

Got cheated by a motorebike driver After I got off the ship from Phu Quoc, I needed a ride to the bus station so I enlisted the service of a local motorbike driver who told me the cost for the ride was 2,000 vnd. I thought it was quite reasonable so I hopped on. But when we got there, he told me the price was 4,000 vnd. I reminded him that his p...

Well, I suppose it is somewhat inevitable that at some point, I would make an error in my travels and head somewhere that I didn't want to go. I am attempting to take a ferry from mainland Vietnam over to a remote island off Vietnam's western coast. I thought I could catch the express boat from a tiny town called Ha Tien, which is where I am now...