Day 40/41/42/43/44/45- Kompong Cham We made our third trip back to Phnom Penh from Kampot. It was an uninteresting day. We picked up our passports from Myanmar Embassy, stocked up on food at the grocery store (they had Cheetos's - so we were in heaven), watched "Knocked Up" and went to bed. The next day (Wednesday - Feb. 18th), we hopefully said our last goodbye's to Phnom Penh and headed to Kompong Cham, which is about 3 hours north east. We had the usual rest stop along the way but instead of kids in our face trying to sell us fruit [View Full Entry]

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Day 37/38/39 - Kampot/Rabbit Island We left Phnom Penh at 1PM and arrived at Kampot around 6:30PM. It was a long, bumpy ride. Once we got past the traffic in the city the SUVs slowly disappeared and the road seemed to as well. It was paved for at least the first 4 hours, but it might as not have been. It was in terrible shape - leaving us to wonder if this was a result of the Khmer Rouge. Even on parts of the road that were probably just recently paved, it was an unpleasant ride. When they paved the road [View Full Entry]

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Day 35/36 - Phnom Penh We rolled into Phnom Penh around 2PM Thursday Feb. 12 and headed straight to the guesthouse to pick up our passports. Luckily they still had them; they actually didn't even know they still had them in the safe. After to speaking to so many people in the last month, the one constant thing we kept hearing was how great Burma (Myanmar) is for travelers. So we got a tuk tuk driver Elvis (who ended up being our new BFF in Cambodia) to drive us to the embassy to see about getting visas. It was just our [View Full Entry]

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Day 33/34 - Sihanoukville (don't ask us how to pronounce it as we still aren't quite sure, we call it SV) WE FORGOT OUR PASSPORTS IN PHNOM PENH!!! S was more panicked then G, since S wasn't sure if a guesthouse in SV would let us stay there w/o a passport. S did have a photocopy of her passport so she just hoped they would accept that. Luckily when we got to the place we wanted to stay at - Monkey Republic - it was no issue. However, we would have to circle back to Phnom Penh eventually for our passports [View Full Entry]

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Day 31/32/33 - Phnom Penh (pronounced "Nom Penh") The usual assault happened to us as we got off the boat in Phnom Penh - an attack of moto drivers but with a slight twist added in. Here there are now tuk tuk drivers after us as well. The guesthouse we had found online for cheap ($4.50 per person per night) was clear across town, so the guy offered to take us there for $3, so we just agreed as that sounded reasonable. We had to stop at an ATM though since we had no Riel (Cambodian money). The driver took us [View Full Entry]

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Our month in Vietnam has come to an end - We are torn between not wanting to leave our amazing memories here - and being ready for what lies in store in Cambodia. We decided to compile some of our most memorable moments here - some may be private jokes, but mostly, they are just the highs and lows. Our Favorite Places Hanoi Sapa Region Hue Hoi An All our modes of transportation Motorcycle Slow boat Bus Bicycle Minibus Feet Ferry Long boat Taxi Likes Local People and thier smiles Scenery (from rice paddies to mountains to pristine beaches to de [View Full Entry]

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Day 29/30/31- Chau Doc Aw yes, where were we?!? Our lovely bus ride. This was a truly local bus, the luxury of A/C & a free water bottle was long gone. The bus ticket assigns a numbered seat, but the people inside didn't abide by this, so we just sat ourselves in the second row from the front. A women in the lone right seat in the front row sat staring at us for about 20 minutes, it was awkward but we guess that's a day in the life of a celebrity (see previous blog). Our bus took off at noon [View Full Entry]

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Day 27/28/29 - Ha Tien The first bus ride from Can Tho to Rach Gia took about 31/2 hours. It was a pleasant trip and a nice way to see the countryside. To the right of the bus were houses sandwiched between the road and the canal and beyond the water, green rice paddies extended as far as the eye could see. To the left the same ramshackle houses lined the street with rice paddies in the distance. G lended her excellent vocal skills to the background Vietnamese music, much to the amusement of the guy next to us. The only [View Full Entry]

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Day 25/26/27 - Can Tho (Mekong Delta) We decided to opt out of the 2-3 day organized tour to the Mekong that are so readily available in Saigon and do it ourselves. With help from the tourist office in Saigon, we found out that a local bus leaves every hour for Can Tho for 80,000dong ($4.50). We hopped on a bus in the city that then took us to the main bus stop just outside of HCM. From there we got on a packed minibus - there were two French girls - the rest Vietnamese and headed off for the 4 [View Full Entry]

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Day 21/22/23/24 - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) We pulled into Ho Chi Minh City around 7PM on Thursday, Jan.29th, thanking all heaven that we would never have to deal with Hanh Cafe and its Open Tour bus again. We found our hotel after a bit of searching since it was in an alley of the main street - Pham Ngu Lao (backpackers central). The hostel - My My Art House - was nice enough for $20 a night. There were hotels and guesthouses which we heard offered more for the buck, but the family that ran our hostel was so [View Full Entry]

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