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On the last day, we searched for and tried the best local favorite dishes. We walked through the old town and had Pho Bo, which we first tried on Phu Choc. We also had Banh Mi,...

After some back and forth, we agreed to participate in a slightly more expensive guided trekking tour in the jungle of Vietnam, specifically in Phong Nha National Park. We...

We went to a summer toboggan run after breakfast, which gave us a nice view of a waterfall and through the landscape. After that, on the recommendation of our host, we went to...

We took a day trip to Pongour Waterfall and arrived after about 1 hour of driving and 30 minutes of break. The wide and stretched waterfall impressed us and we decided to sit...

After a long sleep and a good breakfast at Choi Oi, we invested much more time today for a supposed 1-hour hike in the Red Sand Canyon, as it quickly became clear to us from the...

We woke up at 4 o'clock this morning to visit the floating market. At 5 o'clock, the boats start roaring and the river becomes a market. The market starts bustling at 6 o'clock...

We visited the Choeung Ek Genocide Museum, which was formerly one of over three hundred sites that were used as Killing Fields under the regime of "Democratic Kampuchea". During...

We spent 8 hours in the Archaeological Park. We hired a TukTuk driver for $20, who took us from temple to temple for the whole day. It was super exhausting, but also super...

At the War Museum we learned about the suffering of Cambodia in the last decades. From the Cambodian Civil War to the bloody rule of the Khmer Rouge to the Cambodian-Vietnamese...

Yesterday, we set off to have breakfast and then visit Angkor Wat and the park with the "1000 temples" by bike. When we arrived after a few kilometers in the heat (already...

We started our last day by visiting a settlement built entirely on stilts in the water. It all looked very nice, but in the end, the shops had exactly the same things as...

The next day we took a speedboat to a nearby island and went snorkeling for 3 hours with another couple. The underwater visibility wasn't the best (as you can see in the photo),...

On arrival at Koh Chang National Park, we rented a scooter again and explored the island. We saw elephants 🐘 and monkeys 🐒 and relaxed by the sea. On the way there, we had to...