Halong Bay & Cat Ba Island We have been told by a few fellow travellers that a really great place to see the famous Halong Bay is via the less touristy Cat Ba Island. So 2 busses, a ferry and another bus and we arrive in Cat Ba town about 4 hours later. We stay…
Hanoi Vietnam After a short flight from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) we arrive in Hanoi with a population of close to 7 million. We head straight for our hotel, The Rising Dragon Palace in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. We love the Old Quarter, think French colonial meets Old China, add in the hustle and bustle of…
Mekong Delta Vietnam The border crossing into Vietnam was uneventful if a little slow. We stopped overnight at 2 towns on the south coast Ha Tien and Rach Gia before moving on to Can Tho in the heart of the Mekong Delta. The first thing you notice upon arrival into Vietnam is the improvement in…
Kep Cambodia Lying in Cambodia’s South East corner very near the border to Vietnam lies the sleepy town of Kep. Once a premier beach town for wealthy visitors from Phnom Penh, Kep is now better known for it’s oceanfront Crab shacks. Sunsets were spent watching the locals trawling the shores for the soft shell crabs…
Sihanoukville Cambodia Lying about 115 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville is a port city and the main beach area for the South coast of Cambodia with easy access to the many offshore islands. We had a lazy couple of days here and had a great day out to the islands with a beach BBQ…
Kampot Cambodia A couple of hours bus ride from Phnom Penh is the quiet riverside town of Kampot on the South coast of Cambodia. Kampot is well known for it’s black and green pepper, apparently it’s unique and sought after world wide, it definitely made delicious pepper sauces! We took a lovely sunset boat ride…
Phnom Penh Cambodia A six hour dusty bus journey took us from Siem Reap to Cambodia’s capitol Phnom Penh – you have to pronounce the ‘P’ in Phnom, which I’m still struggling with!!!. Once known as the Pearl of Asia, Phnom Penh was considered one of the loveliest French built cities in Indochina. Sitting on…
Angkor Siem Reap A short flight from Bangkok takes us to Siem Reap where we were kindly picked up and taken to our hotel the Lotus Blanc Resort. We had fabulous service here, the manager organised our tuk tuk driver for our trips into Angkor. We decided on a full day ticket into Angkor which also…
Muscat Oman & Bangkok It was great to catch up with Rob & Emma who kindly did an amazing road trip from Riyadh stopping at Abu Dhabi on the way and way back. We had an amazing view of Muscat when flying in with the sun rising over the Western Al Hajar Mountains which surround…
Panoramic Photography Tips These are a few panoramic images from our recent trip to Victoria, Australia and here are some tips of the method I use of taking and stitching multiple images to make a panorama. Tripod Method 1. It’s important to get the top of your tripod mount level so that when you pan…
