Valentinas Travels

Here is the second part of my Indochina adventure.  We had to leave Cambodia after a bit more than a week - which is definitely not enough time to discover this wonderful country!  We crossed to border to Vietnam by bus. As we had organized our visa in advanced but then slightly changed our itinerary, we entered the country one day in advance. This was enough for the custom officer to refuse our entrance. Not sure if this was an official fee or just the mood of the officer, but after handing him the amount he wanted, the problem was solved.  We continued our bus ride to Ha Tien . We didn't have to wait long to see the first people with those conical hats as we had seen them in pictures. We soon envied them for those hats becuase the sun gave its really best. In Ha Tien we had to change busses again - it's very common here that you're picked up by a little bus and then have to change at a bigger bus station. In the next bus we were the only...

In the next posts, I will write about my recent trip to Cambodia and Vietnam with a good friend of mine. We had 2 weeks to explore those two very interesting countries. It was my first time in Asia and I absolutely adored it. It was a whole new world for me and I came back with a big smile on my face - and a lot souvenirs, but that's another story! 2 weeks are definitely much too short for a deep Indochina experience, that's why I call it "Indochina Express". But it was definitely a good start and makes me wanna go back!  Here is part one of my Indochina adventure - the days in Cambodia.  After a long, but very comfortable flight from Zurich via Bangkok to Siem Reap , we were welcomed by heat - and by a tuk tuk.  We were sceptical first as our driver didn't seem to care much about traffic rules. As we found out later, this was the normal way of driving, true to the motto "He who honks louder has right of way" or "survival of the fittest...