We went here to take in the amazing temples complex surrounding Angkor Wat. We hired a tuk tuk driver to take us around for the day and went for a couple of quiet pints at night.
Phnom Penh: 3 nights
Myself and Will randomly bumped onto Paddy Bourke from Dunboyne in the Mekong River bar. As a result, the following 3 nights decended into drunken mayhem amid remeniscing about the good old days. During the days we visited S-21 torture prison and, particularly disturbing, The Killing Fields, the most depressing place I've ever been.
Ho Chi Minh City: 4 nights
Formerly Saigon, we arrived in the old capital of South Vietnam and almost immediately had another chance encounter. As we were walking to get food, we bumped into the two Cork lads and had a few nights out with them. I also visited the war museum to get a Vietnamese version of the events surrounding the Vietnam War. It documented the atrocities committed by US soldiers on civilians and the generations of deformities cause by Agent Orange. A little one-sided but still interesting regardless.
Hue: 2 nights
We took a flight up to here and walked around the citadel and the remains of the forbidden city. We also celebrated Will's birthday all night with all the staff of the Why Not bar, drinking local vodka with the locals til the crack of dawn. We then took a cramped sleeper train to....
Hanoi: 3 nights
We met up with Colm, my co-worker from Korea and his girlfriend after a night train. We sat on "beer corner" drinking local beer priced from $0.25 - $1 and shared stories from our respective trips. Hanoi's old quarter is also a really nice part of town to walk around which is essentially all we did while here.
Ha Long Bay: 1 night
We took a boat tour of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which involved touring a cave, kayaking, swimming, and the most food I've ever eaten. The views were breathtaking but the tour was too much like a package holiday with everything being too rigoursly scheduled. We had a few people around our own age on the boat though and they ended up being nice company for the tour.
Hanoi: 2 nights
During our second leg here we did very little. On the second night a chance encounter with Vali the Romanian ended us up at a house party with a few Romanians, Belarusians, and Ukranians, enjoying Hanoi vodka and weird conversations.
Next stop is the Philippines for two weeks where I'll be meeting up with Gary Fallon.
Hope everyone is well and and another update will follow in a couple of weeks.
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