First of all we are SOOO behind. We were in Otres Beach December 14th - 16th. We are working really hard to get you up to date at this busy time so please bear with us!! Everything will still be posted, just a little behind that's all. After spending three days at Serendipity Beach in Sihanoukville (basically being drunk), we had to get out of that town. We didn't want to go to far since the area is beautiful so we moved to Otres Beach with Paul, Dan and Avi. It took us a while to find accommodations because it is now high season but we were happy to settle in $12 bungalows right on the beach. The place we stayed at (Moorea Beach) resembled a resort with black, white and red accents all over the ... read more

From Koh Tonsay we met up with the other guys in Kampot. It's a super cute little town on a river. If we were on our own we probably would have stayed for a few days to check out the surrounding area but our group was eager to get to Sihanoukville so we only stayed for one night. Sihanoukville was absolutely insane. We met back up with Dan and Avi (from Minnesota), Danielle and Hannah (from England) and bumped into Jordyn (a Canuck we partied with in Hoi An, Vietnam and is renting a house in Snookyville). Our group found great accommodations at Family Bungalow (minus the Brits who were staying at a different place) and basically took over the whole establishment. It has 7 or 8 rooms and we took up 5 of them. Having ... read more

Our border crossing from Vietnam into Cambodia went smoother than we could have imagined. We booked a ticket for a bus that took us directly from HCMC to Phnom Penh. One of the employees on our bus had everyone fill out the appropriate paper work well in advance. When we arrived at the Vietnam side of the border he took everyone's passports to get an exit stamp, all we had to do was have a border official make sure it was in fact our passport by comparing our current state of “backpacker chic” with our mug shots. The same guy from the bus then collected all the passports again and took them to the Cambodian side with our money to get our visas. Again all we really had to do was go through a wicket – ... read more

We have been in Phnom Penh for the last five days. Tyler's friend Jaf met up with us so our duo has become a trio (for now). Tomorrow morning we are off to Koh Tonsay aka Rabbit Island. There will be limited electricity and we aren't expecting an internet connection. I know it's snowy season in Canada so you probably don't want to know that we are going to be having beach bonfires and lazing around in hammocks for a week, but I needed to let you know so that you don't get worried when no blogs are posted. We will be sure to get you a full update of our time in PP (Phnom Penh) and Koh Tonsay when we are back to the real world. Our friend Paul is meeting us on December 11th ... read more

Transportation from Mui Ne to our final Vietnam destination, HCMC, was slowed by rush hour traffic (later in our stay there our guide joked that rush hour is from 7am-11pm) so we got dropped off in District 1 (Pham Ngu Lao, the tourism centre) at around 7:00pm. Since we are quite picky with our accommodations – when it comes to pricing – we “shopped around” for about 45 minutes before settling in at Ly – a clean family run hotel on an alley off Bui Vien. The younger staff (we assumed to be the owners children) were the only ones who spoke English. Family operated hotels/guesthouses are always our favourite places to stay. We have found these places to be a bit warmer and friendlier then the larger hotels. As usual after a long bus, we ... read more