Category: Travel

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

My first three stops weren’t up to much, Saigon is much like other Asian cities, dirty, crowded and a bit smelly. I went on a tour to visit the Cu … Continue readingFrom Saigon to the Beach

Mindil markets are about the only thing going for Darwin; no surf and dangerous seas make beach life pretty uninspiring; they open just before sunset and the sunsets in Darwin … Continue readingDarwin

Honestly, the kids today are really dull. When I got to Darwin I spent a couple of days looking for people to share a car to drive around Kakadu and … Continue readingKakadu & Litchfield

Cairns is just a long line of backpackers and motels interspersed with Irish pubs and tourist information centres. Needless to say I stayed just long enough to take a boat … Continue readingYou Can Lick Their Bums Apparently