Our big trip
A few thoughts and photos from our travels
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Day 183 – Are you sure this is Vietnam?
25th February: Dalat, Vietnam On our way for a wander, I picked up a super strong and sweet little coffee from a place on the corner near the hotel. It apparently wasn’t enough, however, so instead of lunch I went to chill in a café instead for another caffeine hit. They also gave me a…
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Day 182 – Another eternal spring
24th February: Dalat, Vietnam We’re 1,500 metres up, here on the Langbian plateau. Da Lat was originally built by French colonialists at the start of the 20th century, as a retreat from the heat of the lowlands, which perhaps explains the number of churches (and general chaos in terms of town planning!). The town is…
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Day 181 – Up into the highlands
23rd February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Dalat, Vietnam We were eating breakfast when somebody came into the hotel clearly looking for somebody. Our bus pick-up wasn’t for another half-hour but immediately I had a hunch it was for us. I’d heard about this happening lots and we were packed and ready just in…
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Day 180 – The suffering of millions
22nd February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam It was a cloudy, warm, and muggy start to the day. A layer of pollution visibly hung in the air as we crossed busy roads to wander down the alleyways. We came across a lovely café to chill for a short while and I decided to try one…
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Day 179 – The home of street food
21st February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam After breakfast, I wandered the beautiful alleys around our accommodation. You could stay here photographing for weeks! The café I ended up in also made an amazing oat milk iced latte, which I enjoyed whilst writing and putting together playlists of the latest music releases. I’m lucky to…
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Day 178 – Authentic alleyways
20th February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City is lively but the buzz is genuine from locals going about their day to day lives. It’s also probably the most photogenic place I’ve ever visited, although I didn’t have the energy to compose the best street scenes today. It’s definitely my favourite capital…
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Day 177 – The final frontier
19th February: Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Kaja was still ill, which wasn’t a good situation ahead of a six-and-a-half-hour bus journey. We had some breakfast, or at least I did, and jumped in a tuktuk across Phnom Penh. This doubled as Kaja’s tour of the city! We’d snagged the final…
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Day 176 – The beginnings of the delta
18th February: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Kaja wasn’t well at all today, feeling nauseous and in pain. I went down for breakfast by myself of toast, eggs, fruit, and slightly too strong and bitter coffee, before chilling in the lobby on the laptop for much of the hottest hours of the day. Beer is cheaper than…
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Day 175 – Humanity and dignity for all
17th February: Phnom Penh, Cambodia After two weeks in the country, it was time to confront the tragic relatively recent history of Cambodia. In the aftermath of 9 years of destructive American bombing of the country as part of their war in Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge defeated a pro-American puppet government in the Cambodian civil…
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Day 174 – The city awakens at sunset
16th February: Kampot, Cambodia to Phnom Penh, Cambodia It actually rained overnight! We were woken up by the ferocity of it, but all was dry in the morning. It is forecast to rain plenty more on the coast over the next couple of days, but we will once again be attempting to outrun it with…