Asia

Four days in Hong Kong was too much time. So we boated over to Macau one day via a high speed boat.

Kunming unexpectedly introduced Chinese customs, like incessant smoking and spitting on public transportation, that left Nadine and I head colds.

A visa extension delayed our departure. However, exactly a week later, our passports returned with the ease of mind to roam Dalat and coastal Vietnam.

This concludes two weeks teaching English to a gregarious group of nuns in Mui Ne. The road beckons as we resume travels to northern Vietnam. Before our trip started, Saigon would have never been a city where we’d stay for a month.

Your first impressions of Ho Chi Mihn City are “this place has either cloned scooters with great efficiency or all 6 million people here own 2 of them”.

Vietnamese currency is the dong and every time we have to pay with dong here in the Mekong Delta, under my breath I sing Sisqo’s Thong Song.

After a busy day in Phnom Penh, a bus carried my backpack and its incredibly handsome owner to Siem Reap, closest town to the iconic Angkor Wat temples.

There were many reasons to visit Cambodia. The first is the spectacular World Heritage site of Angkor Wat and all its’ temples. The second reason is learning about the abhorrent Khmer Rouge regime. The first, happy-go-lucky, the second, makes one ponder the human’s capacity to hurt one another.