How do you get from Sihanoukville to Kampot and back again? Ins short with relative difficulty via two options. These are renting a car, or taking the train – both of which have plusses and minuses. So, should you drive from Kampot to Sihanoukville, or take the train? Driving from Kampot to Sihanoukville When we…
When it comes to booking a hotel in Sihanoukville it is very easy to get things wrong. The cheap hotels are bad, the expensive ones are basically casinos, the beach ones are meh and mid-range almost non-existent. There is though now Legends Hotel and Resort, which I found ticked a lot of boxes. Why did…
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…
