23rd - 25th april Hue, Vietnam

No comment - just funny

19th - 23rd april Hoi An, Vietnam

Hoi An is an old fishermens' town - it has the nicest pagodas of all Asia (for now). The scenery is beautiful with the old houses, lampions everywhere, delocious fish - and the fatality of extreme cheap tailored clothing which ended up in some kg of new clothes. We also enjoyed the beach for couple days and got a nicer hotel - with swimming pool! I swear with this hot weather (feels like 40 C) we are really happy about any refreshment we can get.

Traffic in Ho Chi Min City is crazy !

15th - 19th april Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam

Jade Temple- incredible

Hier muss ich immer an Joerg und Gregor denken. Da war die Base doch noch ein Traeumchen.

"Andere Laender, andere Sitten": In the Zoo a school class was taking a nap on the floor including the teacher

Botanical Garden and Zoo

Shopping fever for my niece

Jens bored of the shopping fever

Post office with Uncle Ho

Land of the motorbikes

Vietnamese coffee and co tuong game on the street

This is how I imagined Asia. Almost nobody speaks english. You don't know what you are really ordering. Most of the people wear those piramidal straw hats. And the landscapes are beautiful and just astonishing.

13th - 15th april Can Tho, Vietnam

Crossing the border to Vietnam was quite easy and a relaxed procedure, but travelling from Chau Doc to Can Tho with the local bus was an adventure. We took the cheapest option to travelling Vietnam for the first time and definitely we got what we paid for. There is no right or left lane. They drive on the side they want or just in the middle of the lanes. If someone is disturbing they just use the horn. The horn is also used as an extension of the brakes. Besides rthat everytime the minibus would stop which was quite often the indicators were syncronised with a circus melody. They driver stopped every 10 minutes to ask the people on the streetside if they would need a ride, to pick up or to leave people.
On top of that the people managing the bus were smuggling cigarettes. Two ladies and one man were hidding the cigarettes under their clothing. That means that the hunchback of the lady was square and not round. The xxs sized guy was hiding the cigarettes under the xxxl clothing. And the other old lady was hidding the cigarettes in her elephant bootleg trousers. Hilarious and unique, but kind of rare if you are in a foreign country where almost no one speaks your language.

We had a 3.5 hour ride with hellraiser at the wheel and the smuggling crew - this was really enough for the day. In Can Tho we found as nice hotel :). Good night.

12nd - 13th april Chau Doc, Vietnam

10th - 12nd april Sihanoukville, Cambodia

8th - 10th april Phnom Pehn, Cambodia

3rd april - 8th april Siem Reap, Cambodia

Crossing the border was a real adventure. In Bangkok they told us to ignore everyone that would offer us to arrange the Cambodian visa before the border plus we would have to pay the visa in dollars. Wrong. Crossing the border made us realize that all were under one hat- a very big one. The guy that tried to convince us o do the visa before the border was a good friend of the Cambodian border police. Again we had to change money and pay for the visa in Thai currency.

Cambodia is different. Mainly all houses are made out of wood and straw. Kids work- this is usual here. Many have lost arms o r legs because of the landmines and because they don't have money to pay a doctor.
They try to rip off tourists cnonstantly. Bargain is a must. Still though their poor conditions, Cambodians are really nice and chilled-out peolple. And their cooking is delicious.

Siem Reap is like Las Vegas- in middle of nowhere you find the best hotels and restaurants. We visited the Temples of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom on the first day.

... to be continued

31st march - 3rd april Bangkok, Thailand

After a couple weeks of island hopping, I arrived to the capital to meet Jens. We saw the main sites of city, which I really liked. The Royal Palace architecture and paintings based on the religious background impressed me- so different from all I have seen before. The Lying Buddha ist just enormous. Everywhere you could find markets with cheap food and clothes. We met Pedro again in Bangkok- he went back to Madrid on the 5th.