It was love at first sight. The shabby blue and yellow walls, old wooden houses of Chinese merchants, colorful lanterns, small shops, proximity to a beautiful beach and a quiet countryside. I knew it would be pretty, as everybody praise this town. But still, I didn’t know it will be that gorgeous. We had crossed already half of Vietnam. Until ...

There are two places in Ho Chi Minh City that you have to visit if you’re there for the first time. Two places that represent too well the disgrace that fell over Vietnam during the 20th century. The first is the War Remnants Museum that is located in district 3. It has exhibitions about the II Indochina War against the ...

First day We get to a small bus full of tourists. There are only two places left, one next to the driver, and the other one on the back. The bus jumps on the holes, rocking me to sleep. Suddenly our new guide calls me and tells me to get out. Only me and Renato. We stop by a highway, ...

It’s been a long time since Ho Chi Minh was on my bucket list. This city was one of my dream travels for some years and there I was. As soon as we crossed the border to Vietnam, we entered a bus with two floors of beds where it was almost impossible to sit. The options were to lay and ...

Kampot wasn’t in our original plans. But I made a mistake. A big planning mistake that had little or no influence on our goal. We were in Phnom Penh ready to buy tickets for a bus to Vietnam when I realized that we couldn’t get our visas on the border and that we needed to go to an embassy to ...

I have to admit that the Cambodian capital disappointed me. And tired me out. Phnom Penh is a huge, loud, polluted, dusty, jammed and averagely interesting city. We got to Phnom Penh late in the afternoon. The bus stopped somewhere next to one of the main streets. As usual, we didn’t have any hotel reservation, so quickly we became an ...

For four long years, between 1975 and 1979, the destiny of Cambodia fell in the hands of the bloody Red Khmer regime. It is estimated that during this four years 2.5 million people, out of the total Cambodian population of 8 million, died. More than half of them was simply executed at one of the many killing fields, while the ...

Ever since the destiny brought us together, at least once a year we set out for a travel and take a chance of getting to know a new piece of the world. This year, during a birthday party, our friends strongly encouraged us to visit two very special Asian countries: India and Sri Lanka. We would like to share with ...

There are places that are not interesting, but still you want to be there. Places where you don’t have the feeling of wasting time despite not doing anything. When you travel it’s easy to fall into a trap of constant search for attractions, traveling only to “score” another temple, museum or monument. Battambang is a perfect escape, as there isn’t ...

We were leaving Cluj Napoca to head to Brasov when we realised that we would be passing by Alba Iulia. It would be a unique opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful walled city in all southeast Europe. Located in the margins of the Mures river, at the heart of Transylvania, Alba Iulia is a small town with 65 ...