Hello all; planning a trip with one friend around Cambodia. Plan is to start in Ho chi minh city (buy a motorbike there), travel upwards over the border through to Laos, cut downwards to siem riep, then maybe to Thailand, then back across cambodia into Vietnam again. Any advice or must do stopovers?
>>1260185
There's a lot of YouTube videos of people who did similar trips, watch them for the advice they give
Read up on what the visa requirements are for a person from your country for each country you plan to visit.
Vietnam is great but watch some videos about what traffic in the city looks like. Motorcycling in major cities is pants shitting terrifying. Not nearly as bad in Cambodia from what I saw.
Prepare for 90f+ heat with 100% humidity. Dont go during their summer, even the local people dont want to go outside. Bring twice as much water as you think you need and be wary of buying bottled water with broken seal. I saw some gooks refilling plastic bottles in a big tub of tap water.
Everyone I interacted with in southern Vietnam was super nice to white boy me. Learn to love soup and fish sauce.
If its not out of your way, hit up the marble mountains in Da Nang. Theres one mountain theyll let visitors go up. Theres a buddhist hideout up there which is absolutely breathtaking.
I dont have much to say about Cambodia. After we saw Angkor Wat I gave in to some flu I caught and shut myself in the hotel until it was time to leave.
>>1260185
>Bruegel
good shit my man
>>1260185
The three big questions:
How much time do you have?
How much motorbike experience do you have?
Have you been to any of these countries before?