Vietnam has gone. We came few days ago to Thailand, stayed one night in sweaty and smoggy Bangkok just to head this nice, quiet, and small island Ko Samet. We are staying here with Marjut and Marika till tomorrow when they’ll head other places in Thailand. Our journey is going finish also soon and the flight back to the cold Tokyo is on friday. Anyways, still alive and fat enough. And now for a dinner

Here we are, middle of the best French colonial architecture heritage one might find from Vietnam. The previous spots, cities of Hoi An and Hue were nice and small, were as the capital of Vietnam brought us back middle of buzzing motorbikes, shouting cycklo men, and not to mention increased amount of pollution. However, Hanoi - besides a nice name borrowed from a band (or which way it was? ;)) the town is full of nice bakeries, French styles cafes and of course, here rests the legendary mister Ho Chi Min in his glass sargofagus.

Since we arrived here today after a cousy night bus trip, tomorrow seems to be a little bit blurry what comes to plans. The plane is anyways taking us at the day after tomorrow back to Bangkok and towards nice beach villa that Marjut has booked for the four of us. This would be probably last post from the cold and smoggy Hanoi and crazy Vietnam, before reaching Ko Samet island somewhere 1500 kilometres souther from here.

Again, time is flying. We have spent almost five days in Nha Trang, the best beach town in Vietnam. Although the longest stop in this trip suddenly appeared here, we haven’t spent a single moment lying on the beach and waiting for the perfect tanning. Not because we are already tanned, but we felt the world down under so facinating that we singed for a scuba diving course. Yesterday evening, after 3 days of watching videos, practising in the pool, and as a highlight, having 4 sea dives, licensed me as a PADI Open Water Diver. Just perfect.

As I have said maybe hundreds of times, these 4 weeks in countries, where travelling 600 km by bus takes almost 25 hours, are just not enough. However, life goes on and journey continues. Next way points will be hoi An and Hue, before reaching Hanoi at 18th of February. So far so good.

The time is running faster than us. Siem Riep and the ancient Angkor swapped to be humid Ho Chi Min City aka Saigon. Maybe a little bit boring, but still cleaner place tryed to entertain us today with the war crime museum. The word ‘entertainment’ could be interpreted of course in many ways, but at least I didn’t find photos of kids burned by napalm that funny. Anyways, we keep on going. I will try to catch time somewhere, and write more next time.

The journey continues. Last two days we have spent in a town called Siem Riep. It’s not a beach resort as the place before, but one of the world’s best archeological parks - Angor - lies just here. Besides containing the largest religious building in the world (width is about one kilometer!), the abadoned jungle site swallows lots of nice ruins of other temples too. To get some idea before seeing my upcoming photos, watch Tomb Rider (the scenery, not Angelina Jolie’s body shape ;))

We are staying here in really nice guesthouse that is owned by 6 young Norwegians. Yesterday we went out to with the Swedish manager. The athmosphere here is just perfect!