jessandhan

Although there was no medical emergency in Phnom Penh, at 11pm on Sunday night in Siounkville, Jessica's leg was being seen to by a doctor. After alot of nagging from Hannah over the past week, and looking after her that evening supplying blankets, water, cold towels, crisps and sprite, (and everyone thinks Jess is a mug) beacause she was feeling a bit peaky she was finally carted off in a tuk tuk to the medical clinic. After a phone call from Morgan whilst Jessica was on the operating table, it was time for Hannah to take the role of Mum (everyone wants the mum when they are not well!!). So as Jess cried and swore alot whilst cluthing both of Hannah's hands and biting her own shoulder, she was very brave considering they were pulling her ... read more

Well we arrived in Phnom Pehn this morning after our bus journey was nearly double what we expected! We knew it wasn't going to go well when the bus broke down before we even moved, but we made it safely so it's no problem! A more detailed update on Saigon - We both loved it as a city. Most people say Hanoi is more charming and we did like Hanoi, but its very claustrophobic with tiny little streets and scooters whizzing past your ankles all the time. Saigon feels like more of a capital city, it is very busy, but on a bigger scale so it doesn't feel stifling. We both found the war museum fascinating and very upsetting at the same time, we both felt especially angry that it seemed we had to come to ... read more

Well we finally arrived in saigon yesterday morning after our train was delayed by 2 hours. The train station was abit confusing because theres lots of different types of trains going to saigon but after brandishing our tickets at the information counter for a while we managed to work it out! When we got on our seats were actually pretty comfy, we wedged our backpacks in under our feet and got quite alot of sleep for a journey! We found a nice little hotel above a paintings shop and set off to do some sightseeing. We went to the unification palace, which is where the north vietnamese tanks broke through the gates to take saigon in 1975. The building has been left exactly how it was on that day, and its quite eerie. Especially in the ... read more

So, we set off for Halong Bay on sunday morning. We arrived after a 3 hour bus and boarded our boat for a seafood buffet lunch! Our hopes of watching the football with other english people were dashed when everyone else on the boat spoke french, and 2 were deaf! We spent the day sailing around looking at the amazing scenery, and visiting the 'amazing' cave, which was actually quite amazing, but we had no interest in it because we wanted to go swimming. (As we were dragging ourselves round we thought that our dads would be very annopyed if they could see us not appreciating it, but we really realllllly wanted to go swimming!) Before we were able to go swimming we were shown to a kayak, given a paddle and told to be back ... read more

and we finally made it to vietnam! We left our guesthouse in laos at 6am and made it to one hanoi at half 9 2 days later! The first leg of our journey was a ten hour bus ride from luang prabang back to vientienne, during these 10 hours the bus door was open throughout, and for the first 4 hours or so we were going through thick mist in the mountains (jess was freezing, hannah was feeling smug because she brought a jumper). Needless to say when we stopped off at the side of a rainy mountain road and all we could find to eat were crisps we were not best pleased! The bus had much more locals on it than tourists and we learnt that the laos people, while lovely, do not have the ... read more