Our first stop in China was Nanning in Guangxi province, a common stop off for those travelling between Vietnam and China. We caught the night train from a station outside Hanoi after arranging a brief taxi ride through our hotel. We decided on going for a soft sleeper option as we wanted a comfortable first sleeper train journey, it ended up being very simple and pain free despite a few obvious concerns beforehand - Are we going to the right destination, is there more then one train etc? We shared our carriage with a friendly chinese guy who didn't speak a word of english but gestured politely. We had gotten comfortable in our bed seats quickly but before long we had to leave them to clear Vietnamese Immigration, swiftly followed by the Chinese. Once we were ... read more

Hey everyone! Sorry for long delay in this one but finding internet is hard here sometimes!! We've arrived in China so here are the last of the blogs for Vietnam :) Arriving at around 7/7.30am, the bus conveniently dropped us very very close to our hotel and noticing the heat and how bright it was straight away, checked in at the hotel. The room we had originally was really good, they offered us 5mins into unpacking our bags another room for the same price except the room was much bigger and had two big double beds instead of one. We said no, but then needed to change rooms anyway as the TV wasn't working. TV has been a necessity in regards to the World Cup!! 3 fellow travellers had beat us to the other room, but, ... read more

Hi everyone! We left Sihnoukville early on the 8th of June at 7am to get the 11 hour coach across to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Packed with our self made burger cheese and bbq flavour pringle sandwiches, we got on the first coach, just a normal four hour coach journey to Phnom Penh. We had a break in very hot Phnom Penh for two hrs before the next coach to stretch our legs before continuing to Vietnam. After an hour and a half on the next bus we had to cross the river by ferry. When we got to land on the other side the coach wasn't moving, and randomly everyone started getting off the bus without explanation minus their bags and walking. We found everyone just standing around further up the hill, with the bus ... read more

Hello everyone, day later writing this as Phnom Penh's internet facilities were a bit worse off compared to other places we've used in Cambodia. We're now in Sihanoukville! We rushed out of our room in Siem Reap hungover as we decided to pay one more visit to the Angkor What? bar the night before (2 Angkor Wat pitchers, I finally got my t shirt! - N) We got a pick up from our hostel to the central market, changed onto another bus then onto the actual bus heading to Phnom Penh. The coach ride was interesting enough, every bus journey in Cambodia is accompanied by loud khmer karaoke pop dvds throughout the whole journey which you learn to phase out! We had a 6hr ride to Phnom Penh, and on the aisle next to us there ... read more

A little less to post about this time as we've been completely relaxing since getting to Langkawi island! After a night in Georgetown, we got a lift from one of the owners at the Crystal Guesthouse for 60p each to the Ferry which was leaving at 8.15am. We got onto the ferry, to which we found an indian family had taken our seats, but only so they could sit together so we sat in two of their seats. Before the ferry departed, funnily the ferry company had a very easy job of just assigning people to seats when they boarded but they failed big time. Everyone who got on after us was finding that they had the same seat numbers as other people and the staff on the boat had to try and find them other ... read more