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VIENTIANE – LAOS
5/2/23 – 8/2/23 I departed from the old Siem Reap International Airport (since been replaced by Siem Reap-Angkor Airport) on a Bangkok Airways ATR-72, bound for Bangkok. Siem Reap didn’t, at least at the time of my visit, have any direct connections with its northern neighbour, Laos, and so I needed to route through Bangkok…
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SIEM REAP – CAMBODIA
2/2/2023 – 5/2/2023 My bus to Siem Reap left from the same place I was dropped off at several days earlier, which meant that at the very least, I wasn’t fumbling around trying to find a bus stop that morning! Whilst my time in Cambodia’s capital had focussed on the country’s more recent (and disturbing)…
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PHNOM PENH – CAMBODIA
31/1/2023 – 2/2/2023 As we drove out of Saigon, the landscape rapidly became less urbanised, and farmland becomes the defining feature of the world outside of the bus windows. The border crossing process was relatively straightforward – the bus dropped us off at Vietnamese exit control, and only a short amount of queuing was required.…
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SAIGON – VIETNAM
28/1/23 – 31/1/23 I finally found my accommodation for my time in Saigon – 60 Inn, located down an alley not far from Tao Dan Park. This accommodation was really well situated and came equipped with a small kitchen – not that I intended to do any cooking! – and the owner, Sonny, was still…
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REUNIFICATION EXPRESS VIA HUE – VIETNAM
26/1/23 – 28/1/23 I had decided prior to coming on this trip that I wanted to experience train travel in Vietnam on what is commonly known as the Reunification Express – a train line which runs from Hanoi, the capital, and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), the former capital of South Vietnam. Following the end…
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HANOI – VIETNAM
23/1/23 – 26/1/23 Waking up at 3am either means that you’re having a bad night’s sleep, or you have an early morning flight to catch! Luckily for me, it was the latter, and after a quick drop-off at the airport, I was on my way to Vietnam. I won’t bore anyone with the details of…
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URGENCH – UZBEKISTAN
2/7/2022 – 3/7/2022 The trolleybus to Urgench (the last of its kind in Uzbekistan!) took around an hour to reach the city centre. Following this, it was another 20 minute walk to my accommodation for the night. Urgench is an incredibly Soviet city, with large, tree-lined boulevards, and colossal concrete buildings dotting the landscape. As…
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