On The Road

You can thank the rain for this post.  It looks like it's settled in, so we've also settled in with a coffee (a Vietnamese one, they use 'sweet milk' - condensed milk - in place of milk), a view of the beach, and some shelter.

We've made it to Vietnam - three countries in three weeks (and if you count New Zealand and our brief stopover in Singapore that's five, but who's counting?).  What I always forget is if we're covering that much ground, we also have to travel that much ground.  In this case, by bus almost all of the time.  I'm growing pretty sick of buses, and we've still got most of Vietnam to traverse.  Although, I have figured out that I can read on the bus; for much of my life it's made me feel sick.  I wonder whether it's share willpower and the threat of looking out a window for eight hours that's forcing me to read.

Since David last wrote one of these, we've been to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh - I still can't figure out what to call it, but it seems to largely be referred to by the locals as Saigon.  Guide books tend to refer to it as Ho Chi Minh.  I'll stick with the locals) - a large city in Vietnam's south and now we're in Mui Ne, on Vietnam's coast, before heading to Dalat tomorrow (slightly inland).  I keep having to remind myself I'm in a new country; so far at least, Vietnam reminds me a lot of Cambodia.  But we've got the most time in Vietnam, so am looking forward to hopefully getting a bit more of a feel for the place - and hopefully sit still in a place for more than a couple of days.

We haven't yet uploaded any photos we've taken in the last few days, so I'll just attach a couple from Phnom  Penh (Saigon was very similar to Phnom Penh, and I suspect over time the two places are going to get muddled in my memory) and the internet here is very slow, so I'll only try three photos at this stage.

- Hana