15th June – 24th June 15th June After a few stops for toilet breaks and food, and a few naps, we made it from Phnom Penh to Battambang in about five and a half hours. As our time in Battambang was mostly for spending time volunteering in a school, we didn’t have anything booked for …
12th June – 15th June 2018 After getting on the bus in Ho Chi Minh city, we had a few hours on the bus until we arrived at the Cambodian border. We were spoken to in another language (maybe Vietnamese) so we had no idea what we were supposed to do, but we just followed …
9th June – 12th June 2018 After setting off from Hoi An at 6pm, we arrived in Nha Trang at 5.15am, the following morning. We managed to get some sleep on the bus, but I didn’t sleep as well as I have done on other sleeper buses. When we arrived in Nha Trang, we were …
7th June – 9th June 2018 Getting the local bus to Da Nang was 10,000 dong more expensive than we planned because we had to pay for our luggage too (making it £1 each overall). This was still cheaper than it would have been to get a taxi up to the bus station, to get …
6th June – 7th June 2018 After our nineteen-hour bus journey, we finally arrived in Da Nang just before 12. Fortunately, we had both been able to get a fair bit of sleep, so we weren’t feeling too bad. Luckily, we got chatting to one of the men that worked on the bus, and he …
3rd June – 5th June 2018 After leaving Sapa, on our sleeper bus, we had a lengthy six hour drive back to Hanoi. We had a short break about half way in, where we were hit by the humidity again – something we hadn’t missed whilst in the cool air of Sapa! We arrived back …
31st May – 3rd June 2018 After being collected from the hostel in Hanoi, we walked towards our bus. We got on it, only to learn that it wasn’t the sleeper bus we were expecting (and we were meant to be on it all night). However, we luckily soon learned that this was just getting …
29th May – 31st May 2018 As we made our way to what should have been our gate in Manila airport, I thought I heard an announcement about our flight. As the flight attendants spoke so fast, we weren’t sure though, and there were no screens in the airport to help us, so we carried …
26th May – 29th May 2018 While sat in Puerto Princesa airport, waiting for our delayed boarding call, we treated ourselves to a nice drink and a cookie. We had resisted for a while, but the delay encouraged us a little, and we gave in. We continued to sit and wait, until we were finally …
21st May – 26th May 2018 After getting dropped off by Greg at Manila domestic airport, which was more like a hut next to the international airport, we made our way inside. We checked in, and made our way to the departure gates, but as it was a tiny place, with lots of flights leaving …