Sihanoukville is famous, or rather infamous for a number of things from unfinished buildings to genuinely serious crimes, but does it still have any charm and is there a culinary and street food Sihanoukville scene? The answer is that while the city has lost a lot of its charm while trying to convert itself into…
Having already covered getting from Phnom Penh to Saigon how does one go about doing so in the other direction? Well it turns out that it is a whole heap of “same same, but different”. How to get the bus from Saigon to Phnom Penh There are buses that go from different parts of Saigon,…
Saigon was previously the capital of South Vietnam before it fell to the communists and its name was changed to Ho Chi Minh City, after the legendary communist leader. Yet while most do now refer to int as Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, or HCMC, the central area and indeed the party district…
Vietnam has the best street food and noodles period, this is not ever up for debate. What makes it the best though is just looking at a dish and trying it for no reason. This is how I got Bun Thit Nuong. I travel a lot, as you may know, but instead of being a…
You either love or hate durian and for me personally I love the stuff, so also it would appear do the people and tourists of Nha Trang, at least going by the shops in the city – enter Me Sau Rieng. Yes, it is smelly, but it is also expensive enough that one might call…
The Marshall Islands is the 7th least visited country on earth (officially), which means it has a reputation for there being that much to do. Is this fair though and what you do in Majuro the capital island of the country? Every year YPT tours the Marshall Islands, with the main port of call being…
