Luke and Alice’s travel blog. From Southeast Asia, to Japan, Australia and lastly NZ.
Hanoi is a big big place. We stayed mostly to the area by our hostel - Cocoon - which was in the old quarter of the city. Our plans over the 3days staying here involved Luke receiving some medical attention regarding his recent dog bite and arranging onward travel to Ha Giang. Luke had rang... Continue Reading →
From Tam Coc we started early on our journey towards Halong Bay via bus which took around 5hours. We had arranged for the next 3days to go on a boat tour around the bay of islands with a tour company called Vega Travel. This involved staying on a boat for a night in our own... Continue Reading →
Another bumpy night bus endured, we arrived in Tam Coc at 4am. I had contacted our accommodation - Green Peace Bungalows - to let them know of our early arrival and very kindly they agreed to let us check in on arrival so we could get some sleep in our room. Our hostess at the... Continue Reading →
We left Hue after spending two nights in the city and got a very long bus north to a small town called Phong Nha. The bus was super uncomfortable which made arriving greatly anticipated. We checked into our hotel for the next 2nights, and met up with a friend for a drink at a nearby... Continue Reading →
It only takes 1hour to reach Danang by plane from Ho Chi Minh City. Danang is a seaside city which honestly doesn’t have much in it! Majority of the tourist attractions are located a few kilometres outside the city. We only stayed for two nights before moving onto Hoi An which is a short bus... Continue Reading →
After Phu Quoc we flew back to mainland Vietnam, with Ho Chi Minh city as our first destination. If you read the previous blog post about Phu Quoc, you might remember I mentioned that our passports were stamped for a 15day free visa exemption on arrival into Ho Chi Minh airport. This was purely because... Continue Reading →
After doing quite a lot of travelling in the previous weeks through Laos and Cambodia, we decided we needed a little holiday. Some of you might think that sounds ridiculous and even say “but you’re already on holiday!”. But that’s where you are wrong. Yes, we are out in Southeast Asia living our best lives... Continue Reading →
We booked our bus via our hostel in Siem Reap. It took around 5hours to reach the huge and very busy capital city. My first impression wasn’t great when I groggily exited the bus and was immediately confronted by a very pushy tuktuk driver who was determined that Luke and I would be getting a... Continue Reading →
An early morning ferry and bus brought us to the Laos-Cambodia land border where we went through the immigration procedures. It was a Saturday and this apparently meant that you had to pay a $2 fee either side due to the staff overtime rate. This is of course a complete lie, but just to make... Continue Reading →
It was around 6.30pm is when the journey began. Crammed into the back of a songthaew with 10-12 other people, we were dropped at the bus station where we would board our night bus to Pakse. The bus itself was huge! However the beds as such were not, roughly the size of a single bed... Continue Reading →
Gone Travelling 