We travelled to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in Vietnam from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The journey was stress free, we had a TV on our bus, huge leather seats and the border crossing was really quick and easy....We had to get off the bus, have our bags scanned and passports checked, before getting back on the bus again and being driving all the way to the centre of HCMC, where our hostel was convieniently and entirely coincidentally about 50metres away! HCMC makes Bangkok look sleepy! There are over 15million motorbikes and they all seemed to be on the road with us! There are traffic lights but no one seems to abide by them...even if there is a red light and a green man, you still need to rush across the road whilst motorbikes weave in and
... read more