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12th April 2023
today, after a difficult night on the rocky bus, we arrived at the city of Nha trang, where I was finally able to take a shower after having been sweaty all day yesterday. We walked around the city for a while, seeing what was around our hotel, before we decided to go to the local […]
11th April 2023
For breakfast today we had noodles, before taking a taxi to go to the war museum where we learnt about the Vietnamese war, albeit a slightly skewed version of history, as told by the communists who won’t he war. We got to see some of the photos of the war showing some of the atrocities […]
10th April 2023
today we woke up at 4:30 am after a rough night, being woken up every 30 minutes by a different noise, the most notable being the storm of crickets landing on our roof and making a noise of 70 decibels in the middle of the night. however we had a long day ahead of us, […]
9th April 2023
Today we tried to get up to watch the sunrise, but unfortunately when we reached the beach, we saw that the horizon was covered in clouds from last night’s storm. We still got to see some of the colours of the sunrise, but weren’t able to get the full experience. After breakfast we all got […]
8th April 2023
Today after breakfast we met our guide, who bought us on a walking tour of the island to see the village. We started by walking to the local school, crossing the only real road on the island (still under construction) Our guide made us stop to try some local rice noodles and then showed us […]
6th April 2023
Today is a more cultural day as we would be learning more about the Cambodian genocide, We got on the bus after our breakfast and drove to the killing fields, the site of a horrible genocide that happened less than a 50 years ago in Cambodia, where the ruling group, the Khmer Rouge, would kill […]
5th April 2023
Today was another long travel day, as we made our way to the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Peng. We got up early and after a quick breakfast, were greeted with a full sized buss just for us, which was great because it meant that we could each have a full row to ourselves to […]
4th April 2023
Today we got up at 4h30 in the morning and got in a van on our way to Angkor Wat, to watch the sunrise there. On the way we had to do a quick stop by the visitor centre so that they could take a photo of our faces as we were all barely awake […]
3rd April 2023
Today we woke up very early at 5h30 in the morning and boarded our mini bus on the way to Cambodia. On this journey we travelled for about 4 hours before we arrived at the Cambodian Border where we exited Thailand and officially entered the country, thankfully everything went smoothly and we all made it […]
