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Early in the morning of november 27th i left with a shared taxi from battambang. A shared taxi is a normal car, with one destination, and you share it with four, five or sometimes more people depending on the price. I had one with 4 people, for 5 dollar. Destination: Poipet, at the border with […]

Early in the morning the bus picked me up from the hotel. An hour later i was in the boat. The trip promised a lot, Lonely Planet said ‘arguably the most exciting boat trip in Cambodia’. Well, it was. First i looked at the boat, wich was a lot narrower then others i had been […]

In the morning, arround 6.30, we had breakfast in the guesthouse. After this we left with a tuk tuk to the pier, got on the fast boat and off we were to Siem Reap, our last destination with the four of us together.
After Siem Reap my sister, brother and father were to leave by plane […]

The first day in Phnom Penh we planned to visit the National Museum. But we were a little bit late and had to wait until 1400, so we walked arround town a bit (pfff 5km or so!) We lunched in Friends, a nice little restaurant. All proceeds go to helping street children into education […]

In the morning at 7 am the bus left from the (very-ok-for-a-border-town) guesthouse, to take us in 45 minutes to a boat pick up. This boat took us to the border with Cambodia were we got our visa, walked into customs, walked pased, and got in a boat again. Then a six hour trip […]

Ho Chi Minh City. Pfewwww. What a place. So in your face, especially after Hoi An. The flight was pleasant and short, only 2 hours. Arriving at the airport we first sought out some stuff to leave here. My brother, sister and father would leave from here the 22nd to Singapore, so it would be […]

We arrived by bus in Hoi An after a trip along beaches and thru mountains and thru Danang aroound 19.00. We went to Vinh Huy Hotel, a nice hotel, with personal service. There english was good, and we had HBO again! No airco this time, but a fan did the job. We had a expensive […]

Arriving in Hue arround 10 am by train. In the train someone came to us with a proposal for a new hotel, and we arranged for a pickup from the station. It was the Thai Bihn Hotel. Quite luxureus, 12 dollar per room, two rooms. But we took it because it was very nice: HBO […]

On the 3th we arrived early in the morning in Hanoi, arround 6 am. We watched a wghole lot of people excersise in the morning arround Hoam Kiem Lake, very funny. Then a cup of coffee, and off to the trainstation to buy train tickets to Hue for the 4th. Then took a bus […]

From Hanoi we left on the train to Lao Cai. This was a 10 hour trip. From there we were picked up by a transferbus to Sa Pa. This is a really adorable city. The people here are so friendly, and there are a lot of people selling there wares on the street. The area […]