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We had an interesting tuk tuk ride from the centre of Sihanoukville out to our hotel. We arrived in the centre about 7.30pm and our hotel was 15 minutes outside the main town, near Otres Beach. Sihanoukville is a beach town with their most famous beach being Serendipity Beach. If you travel further along the coast you would come to Otres Beach where we were staying. We flagged down a tuk tuk and the driver said he knew where our hotel, Sok Sabay Resort was. He in fact did not, neither did he speak much English. We spent over an hour trying to find our hotel as the driver kept stopping to have a look at the map on my phone or ask people for directions along the way. As we became closer to the hotel there begin to be less and less people going about and soon it became just the tuk tuk driver and us on dark woodland tracks. I was genuinely thinking we were never going to get there or he was going to drive us into the woods, rob us and just leave us there! Thankfully, ...

The quickest and smoothed border crossing we had was from Vietnam into Cambodia. We travelled from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh with the bus company Cambodia Luong. The whole border experience was pretty much stress free. We had been dreading each journey that had a border crossing as we knew that meant hanging about waiting ages in queues to get your stamp for leaving a country and your visa for entering the next. It worked out great as our bus company basically did everything for us. We gave our passports and visa payment of $35 to our guide on the bus and he filled out the forms for us and handed our passports in to the immigration officers. All we had to do was go up to the Vietnam immigration when they called our name to show we were leaving the country. All in all, it only took us about half an hour which was such a relief! Our journey into Phnom Penh was absolutely fine. We arrived into the city centre and got a tuk tuk to our hote...

We had another treacherous bus journey travelling to Dalat from Nha Trang. The majority of it was on small, twisty roads in the hills. The driver was a maniac! He was driving far too fast and overtaking on blind corners! Thankfully, the journey was only four hours which was one of our shorter journeys. There really is no rules over here on the roads. You can do whatever you want. Health and safety doesn't seem to be a thing. Not like in the UK where there are health and safety procedures in place for everything! They are way more relaxed over here about everything. The only thing they have specific rules for is about religion and visiting their religious temples which in comparison is extremely strict.     First impressions of Dalat were that it was more run down than I was expecting. I didn't know anything about Dalat but I imagined it to be a quaint little town but it's actually a small city. There's still mas...