Category: Travel

I flew into Port Elizabeth on the morning of the England game against Slovenia and immediately came up against a problem. The hostel I was staying in had failed to … Continue readingPort Elizabeth

My visit to Polokwane was a quick affair, the bus left from Johannesburg Airport at 1 o’clock, we got there in time for the second half of the South Africa … Continue readingPolokwane

Arriving in Jo’burg, I didn’t have anywhere to stay so I went straight to the tourist desk and found a hostel. All the hostels in South Africa have tripled their … Continue readingJohannesburg

Singapore is a city, that’s pretty much all there is to it. But it is a fun city, the public transport is great but the place is small enough that … Continue readingSingapore

The second part of which is down the channels of the Mekong Delta, that is full of life. We cruised down the winding channels of the Mekong delta, past floating … Continue readingMekong Delta

On landing in Siem Reap my driver offered to take me on a dawn tour of the Angkor Wat temples the next day for a reasonable price. Unfortunately I forgot … Continue readingA Whistle-stop tour of Cambodia

Hurrah for Ninh Binh, at last, the real Vietnam; after all, that’s why everyone goes there. So after I had spent most of the morning in Hanoi, finding a new … Continue readingNinh Binh

After a short stop in Hanoi where I went to a water puppets show it was straight on to Halong Bay, I took a tour as it is supposed to … Continue readingHalong Bay to Sapa

Hué is the opposite of Hoi An, put simply it?s a dump, but the main reason to go there is for the places around there. There is the ancient citadel … Continue readingHué

This was the complete opposite of my experience of Vietnam up to that point, I ended up at a Hotel just on the edge of the town centre where the … Continue readingHoi An