Phnom Penh

Easter Sunday, off to Cambodia on yet ANOTHER bus trip at 6:30am (so we thought, but then were told there was no bus until 8am).
It was overbooked with locals sitting on plastic chairs up the aisles... but it was great fun AND we got to meet Penny, our new friend from Aus!
Along with our Easter chocolate feast, we even had REAL CHEESE and orange juice!













We met a cool Aussie chick, Penny, on the bus into Cambodia and convinced her to stay with us for a bit...

We stayed at Number 9 Guesthouse, on the lake, and were so stoked to see lots of hammocks out on the deck calling our names!

We did a day trip to the Killing Fields where millions of Cambodians were tortured and killed in horrendous ways, between 1975-79. The local hostel dude took us in his tuk tuk and on the way we got sprayed with water and powder by kids celebrating the New Year!



This tower was built as a memorial to all those killed, and has 17 floors filled with skulls, lots of which have serious fractures or holes in them.


Next it was off to S21, the school that was converted into a prison to torture and interrogate "spies" and normal everyday innocent Cambodians.








Jaded walk back to our guesthouse.
Only in Asia!!!

Avo and cheese = heaven!
Our super sophisticated room.

Yip, we bumped into Ally and Meerko at S21, so they came over to our place for some sundowners, and we hopped on a tuk tuk to go and see what the Heart of Darkness was really about. Turns out it was more like a brothel, but it had beer, and stage from which to fall off.. so it was all good!


Me hanging with the locals again...

Ho Chi Minh City

Sue "branching" out again - eating fried rice out of a pineapple!

Niks and I went to check out the Vietnam War Museum which was very interesting but bordering on sickening by the time we got to the end.

I loved all the aircraft etc.. which was a good distraction from all the pictures (and the odd preserved embryo) of deformed childrem from all the chemicals - Agent Orange etc.

Finally at a street kitchen with the locals, albeit only for a quick cold Coke!








Niks and I chilled in the park playing backgammon.. on our way to the:



SUPERMARKET!!
We NEEDED to find Easter Eggs so we walked the whole city in search for a proper shop. But alas, the best we could do was chocolate slabs, but we were happy :)

Paradise in Mui Ne

Considering we paid on average $2-3 per night each on accommodation, $5 at this one place in Mui Ne sounded like an absolute fortune, but look what we got for it!!


<- Our cosy cabin.

Sunset...










The next morning we were up at the crack of dawn to watch the sun rise over the dunes, and go sandboarding down the dunes.

Our jeep driver was severely hungover and didn't feel like driving us onto the dunes, so we kinda missed the sunrise... but the boarding down was cool, until the little boy with the plastic strips bugged us for MORE money, endlessly! GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!












Red Canyon
Banana pancakes!

Yellow Dune
Fishing Village
Walking up the Fairy Stream...


.. to the waterfall

Hug a palm tree!


Rum sundowners on the beach..


Limoncello's at the Italian restaurant.


Our ride home!!

Beaching in Nha Trang

After a terribly eventful day in Hoi An we welcomed the overnight bus journey, and the sleeping pills from Niks! Aimee, Dan, Meerko and Ally joined us on the bus so it was quite fun...
Breakfast at the Same Same cafe.
We spent the day chilling out on the beach. We paid 10000 dong (about 15p) to hire the bed and shade for the day, but mostly to not be hassled by the people selling stuff on the beach including pedicures and massages (although Sue and I shared a pineapple we bought from one of the ladies, and had sever pineapple-mouth for the rest of the day. There was a massage place right there so we went to have one, but they were busy and told us to come back in an hour. That's just not right - normally we're fighting them away from us!!!


Sue's water company.




Phalang 2 on the scene.

Sharing a beeeeg happy room with the boys, Phalang 2 and the guitar.
That night we splurged and treated ourselves to sushi, and lots of it! Even Sue took the plunge and had Japanese food!


We went to the Why Not Bar because we could, and had happy hour buckets and played pool. It was pretty quiet though, so the three of us crammed into a cyclo and got peddled home!