15 Nov 2008 | Thailand | Created 15 Nov 2008 | Last Update 05 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments
P: The hospital in Bangkok was great. Sadly I was pretty much feeling fine when I arrived. We had a nice taxi arranged for us from the airport to the hospital not something we really wanted but the luxury was welcome! The streets of Bangkok were crowded as it was rush hour but after driving past the...
10 Sep 2008 | Lao | Created 18 Sep 2008 | Last Update 05 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments
P: Well Laos proved to be pretty different pretty quickly! A few minutes after crossing the border we were trundled off of the bus. Thankfully the Argentinians we had been travelling with were left on the bus. We then had to give our bags to a motorbike driver who balanced them between his legs and ...
11 Sep 2008 | Lao | Created 18 Sep 2008 | Last Update 05 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments
A: Pakse was mainly a one-main-street town in which we stayed a few days in order to organise motorbikes. We wanted to do the "southern swing" described in the LP guidebook and also came highly recommended by a guy we met in Vietnam. Let me tell you here a lovely example of intercultural u...
12 Sep 2008 | Lao | Created 18 Sep 2008 | Last Update 05 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments
A: We took a night bus from Pakse to Vientiane. The bus was pretty much how you would imagine the bus in Harry Potter. We had real beds, TV... It was pretty cool. Once in Vientiane, we eventually found a place to stay and then had a look around town. When you look over the Mekong river, you can see ...
13 Sep 2008 | Lao | Created 18 Sep 2008 | Last Update 05 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments
P: Getting to the Plain of Jars was a little arduous! The bus was supposed to leave at seven thirty and in true Lao style the tickets could only be bought on the day of travel. That morning worried about availability we went to the bus station at seven after a very hurried breakfast. We got ou...
14 Sep 2008 | Lao | Created 18 Sep 2008 | Last Update 05 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments
P: I was feeling sick on arrival in Luang Prabang, just a little nauseous nothing serious... The town was in the middle of a Dragon Boat festival and was very well decorated. The special market was in full swing when we arrived and had taken over the entire main street for the length of at least a k...
14 Aug 2008 | Vietnam | Created 24 Aug 2008 | Last Update 24 Aug 2008 | 0 Comments
A: We arrived in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (HCMC) at around 6 am. We did not have the greatest sleep in the sleeper bus we took from Nha Trang and just wished for a hotel room with a nice bed to relax a bit. As we already described in other stories it is not the easiest thing to get a hotel room early in the...
16 Aug 2008 | Cambodia | Created 19 Aug 2008 | Last Update 29 Sep 2008 | 0 Comments
P: Cambodia... at last! I had been looking forward to crossing the border for a few days. It was a damn impressive border crossing too. Apart from the usual scam to get more money from someone (which we avoided) the border crossing was simple. The Cambodians have constructed a massive temple like st...
12 Aug 2008 | Vietnam | Created 19 Aug 2008 | Last Update 24 Aug 2008 | 0 Comments
A: Since we met the Dutch couple in Mongolia P. and I have been thinking that it would be cool to do a diving course somewhere while travelling. We had been checking a good few locations online and decided that doing it in Vietnam would be the cheapest and easiest way. We checked out the diving cent...
10 Aug 2008 | Vietnam | Created 18 Aug 2008 | Last Update 24 Aug 2008 | 0 Comments
A: We left Hanoi by night bus. This time we did not opt for a sleeper bus after the experience we had in China. So we took a normal seater night bus. We met a nice English guy we had a long chat with. P boldly decided to make sure that he would have the 5 seats at the back of the bus for himself. i ...
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