im going to vietnam

[crustychick]

If I had two weeks, I would start in Hanoi travelling south utilising the excellent overnight trains. Finishing up in Saigon.

ooh, thanks - you would do vietnam rather than cambodia then? what about if you had two weeks in cambodia?

 

[TruXta]

nah i avoid tans, covered up and wore factor 50.

BOO!

 

[Wolveryeti]

Did you tell all the yaba heads that yaba's shit and they should be taking MDMA?

 

[craigxcraig]

ooh, thanks - you would do vietnam rather than cambodia then? what about if you had two weeks in cambodia?

I thoroughly enjoyed both countries though Vietnam tipped it for me - easier to travel around, arrive Hanoi and leave from Saigon. It has great cities to experience, a beach bit in the middle of your trip and maybe a day or two sailing around Halong Bay. Great food as well.

Cambodia was also interesting but neither my wife or I enjoyed Phnom Penh which you would have to go through on a couple of occasions (assuming you went south and then returned to visit the north) or vice versa. Still, both are definitely worth visiting and whichever you choose you'll have a blast. Kep and Kampot in the south are awesome - unfort we didn't make Rabbit Island just off the coast. Siem Reap and visitng Angkor Wat was a real highligt (AW moreso than SR!)

 

[ilovebush&blair]

Did you tell all the yaba heads that yaba's shit and they should be taking MDMA?

didnt see any

 

[ilovebush&blair]

I thoroughly enjoyed both countries though Vietnam tipped it for me - easier to travel around, arrive Hanoi and leave from Saigon. It has great cities to experience, a beach bit in the middle of your trip and maybe a day or two sailing around Halong Bay. Great food as well.

Cambodia was also interesting but neither my wife or I enjoyed Phnom Penh which you would have to go through on a couple of occasions (assuming you went south and then returned to visit the north) or vice versa. Still, both are definitely worth visiting and whichever you choose you'll have a blast. Kep and Kampot in the south are awesome - unfort we didn't make Rabbit Island just off the coast. Siem Reap and visitng Angkor Wat was a real highligt (AW moreso than SR!)

i was only in phnom penh for two days didnt dislike it though. but it wasnt nearly as good as saigon.

 

[craigxcraig]

i was only in phnom penh for two days didnt dislike it though. but it wasnt nearly as good as saigon.

In total we were there for about 6 days, staying in a nice place and met some great people - jsut felt quite sleazy in places, much preferred being out off PP than in it.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

I thoroughly enjoyed both countries though Vietnam tipped it for me - easier to travel around, arrive Hanoi and leave from Saigon. It has great cities to experience, a beach bit in the middle of your trip and maybe a day or two sailing around Halong Bay. Great food as well.

Cambodia was also interesting but neither my wife or I enjoyed Phnom Penh which you would have to go through on a couple of occasions (assuming you went south and then returned to visit the north) or vice versa. Still, both are definitely worth visiting and whichever you choose you'll have a blast. Kep and Kampot in the south are awesome - unfort we didn't make Rabbit Island just off the coast. Siem Reap and visitng Angkor Wat was a real highligt (AW moreso than SR!)

i didnt go to angkor wat, thought it sounded shit.

 

[craigxcraig]

i didnt go to angkor wat, thought it sounded shit.

AW was fantastic though appreciate where you're coming from. We were told to take an anti-clockwise route rather than follow the hoards - we ended up at various sites being the only people there and though we shouldn't have, we did clamber over some of the ruins, it was like being 11 years old again!

 

[ilovebush&blair]

AW was fantastic though appreciate where you're coming from. We were told to take an anti-clockwise route rather than follow the hoards - we ended up at various sites being the only people there and though we shouldn't have, we did clamber over some of the ruins, it was like being 11 years old again!

i think im the only person that went to cambodia that didnt bother going there.

 

[Rajjie]

I think you probably are! Angkor was amazing, spent my birthday there. It's a wonder of the world and a truly awesome area. And Siam Reap is great fun, lots of touristy shit, cheap cheap drinking, club. Loved it.

For me Cambodia tops Vietnam by far, especially Phnom Penh. What an amazing city.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

I think you probably are! Angkor was amazing, spent my birthday there. It's a wonder of the world and a truly awesome area. And Siam Reap is great fun, lots of touristy shit, cheap cheap drinking, club. Loved it.

For me Cambodia tops Vietnam by far, especially Phnom Penh. What an amazing city.

i would have found it boring so i didnt go.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

I think you probably are! Angkor was amazing, spent my birthday there. It's a wonder of the world and a truly awesome area. And Siam Reap is great fun, lots of touristy shit, cheap cheap drinking, club. Loved it.

For me Cambodia tops Vietnam by far, especially Phnom Penh. What an amazing city.

it isnt a wonder of the world btw

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

wtf's the pictures?

 

[Rajjie]

it isnt a wonder of the world btw

Well I've just wiki'ed "wonders of the world" and it isn't on there. Someone needs to have words with whoever wrote the list.

FUCK the Hanging Gardens of Babylonia.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it isnt a wonder of the world btw

Maybe not in the old seven wonders

 

[ilovebush&blair]

wtf's the pictures?

i still havent got my films developed, but i shall put a few digital ones on

 

[Wilson]

Well I've just wiki'ed "wonders of the world" and it isn't on there. Someone needs to have words with whoever wrote the list.

FUCK the Hanging Gardens of Babylonia.

tbf its not really all that old, it just looks ancient

 

[ilovebush&blair]

he are a few

 

[ilovebush&blair]

and some more

 

[ilovebush&blair]

some of them arnt working, but i dont have enough money to get the films from my real camera developed yet

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What's with the turtle? What's with the drugs list?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Where's the Orang Utan, in a zoo?

 

[ilovebush&blair]

the turtle and fish are at a pagoda where you buy them and then pour them into a pond. and that drug list was shown to me by a moto driver in saigon i dont know why the hell he had it, but he was saying he could get heroin and weed and was asking me about the others.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

and the orang utan was in kampot zoo, it was horrible.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

the turtle and fish are at a pagoda where you buy them and then pour them into a pond. and that drug list was shown to me by a moto driver in saigon i dont know why the hell he had it, but he was saying he could get heroin and weed and was asking me about the others.

oh right, is that for a new church roof or something?

I remember in Malaysia (or maybe it was Thailand) paying for a roof tile for a new temple. They let you write your name on it

 

[ilovebush&blair]

you put them in the pond to give your family health or something like that.

 

[Rajjie]

you put them in the pond to give your family health or something like that.

This is in HCMC yeah? One of the weirder temples I was in. Made worse by the fact that you could hardly breathe for the incense in the air.

There was a similar temple on Penang in Malaysia where the temples ponds were infested with turtles that people had put in for luck. It was horrible

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This is in HCMC yeah? One of the weirder temples I was in. Made worse by the fact that you could hardly breathe for the incense in the air.

There was a similar temple on Penang in Malaysia where the temples ponds were infested with turtles that people had put in for luck. It was horrible

That's Kek Lok Si Temple. I went there, but my photos fucked up

 

[Rajjie]

Goddess of Mercy