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I am currently sitting in our hotel in Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam. The typhoon mentioned previously has now very much settled in, such that all the “sights” are either flooded or closed! We did manage to ride out to a few of the more interesting spots before the weather worsened this morning [...]

The ancient port town of Hoi An, home to much APEC business if the banners all over town were to be believed, was quite delightful. We stayed in the centre of the old town amongst old Chinese and Japanese shop houses and French villas.
Had an architectural ball checking out old houses and exploring little alleyways. [...]

Phu quoc was fantastic, albeit a little damp. After a 4 hour delay for our flight on Saturday we finally made it to our accomodation by about 4.30. We stayed at a small eco-resort – our rooms were rammed earth bungalows with thatched roofs (not so good in the wet season!) and outdoor bathrooms with [...]

We are still in Saigon at the moment, just back from a magnificent shellfish dinner. We have eaten all sorts of weird and wonderful things that one would usually leave on the sea floor, fishing them out of their shells with a safety pin!
This week we headed up into the highlands of Vietnam, more specifically [...]

I’m currently sitting in our friends office in Saigon when I was supposed to be kicking back by the Mekong in Ben Tre! We had a small mix up with our bus – well perhaps we were a bit slow to realise that we had reached the spot where we were supposed to get off [...]

We are now just inside the Vietnamese border in a little riverside town called Chau Doc. The boat trip here was quite uneventful, some interesting scenery but the river was so wide that little detail was available from the boat – very different from the trip from Siem Reap to Battambang.
This morning we climbed (with [...]

We are still kicking around Phnom Penh – taking it very easy at the moment. We have ticked off most of the must do’s – royal palace & museum, Tuol Sleng S-21 genocide museum, killing fields, Russian & Central markets and numerous strolls along the riverfront.
Highlight so far was our trip this afternoon, we hired [...]

I have added a couple of photos to some of the previous posts. For more pictures check out our flickr page. I will be adding more in the next couple of days. None of the photos are great – the light in Cambodia seems particularly ill-suited to photgraphs at this time of year. They [...]