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Me and Mrs Nochee have been deciding where to go for our summer hold and have decided that we have to go back to Thailand for the 100th time.

I would like to add another country to my visited list tho so i checked Air Asia and they have ridiculously cheap flights to both places from Bangkok. As we only have 3 weeks away and cant fit everything in we are thinking that we have 2 weeks in Thailand and 1 week in Cambodia or Vietnam.                                     


Which one would be the best?

I would like to go to both.

Cambodia has Angkor Wat amongst many other things.
Vietnam looks beautiful.

Cambodia does have Anchor Wat and a day of looking at Temples would be great. But a day is about enough for me.

Im looking to do some kind of activity such as Rock climbing, Rafting and such things.

Wales?

Good idea but but its too expensive to fly there from Bangkok.

Have a look on Infohub.com and search for kayaking / rafting in Vietnam....there are quite a few tour options.

It's hot like Pol Pot.

I don't know ,much about rafting and stuff but I do know that Vietnam can be surprisingly expensive. Nice place though.

A holiday in Cambodia ?

I went to Cambodia 2 years ago and apart from Angkor Wat it's not really set up for tourists yet. There certainly didn't seem to be much in the way of "activities", it's more about the culture and history of the place. Based on what I heard from other tourists I met there it sounds like Vietnam would be a much better bet for what you are looking for.

During the Vietnam war there used to be a chant in the Town End to "send Wilf Castle to Vietnam".  Mr Castle was, I believe, the chairman at the time - I guess times were not good either in Vietnam or STFC!

went to vietnam for 2 months before i went to uni, loved every minute of it, and would go back there like a shot.

People will mistake you as a yank at first, and show some trpidation towards you, but the minute you speak, and they find out your british, they will love you.

in the cities like ho cho minh or Hanoi, you can get a good bowl of rice with some veg in and meat for 15p a day!! (TIP: do not aks what meat it is ever!!)

if you ever find yourself in a village just north of Dang nai, ask for chim', he will have a swindon town bobble hat!! :)

you will love it I promise you!

when you heading out nochee? I'm doing thailand in september for two weeks. Not decided where we're going yet, just gonna make it up as we go along when we get there I reckon?

I havent been but i do own a Full Metal Jacket DVD.....does this help?

Flights are now booked for 3rd Aug-25 Aug. Stockholm to Bangkok £450 return with Thai Airways.

Thanks for the tips and it looks like it will be Vietnam for the final week of the trip.

I will find this Chim fella with the STFC bobble hat, take a pic and post it here in Sept.

I'll see your full metal jacket and raise you an Apocalypse Now.

A pair of Hamburger Hills and three Platoons.

All I've got is When we were soldiers.

Not wasted Nev-I get the Dead Kennedy's link!

You needed a Queen of Purple Hearts to have any chance.

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Be carefull out there. Don't get tempted let glitter be a warning to you.

A really useful tourist guide considering it was filmed in Docklands :)

I've not been to either (so this is, as always, a useless post) but I would really love to go to both.

I want to go to Vietnam purely so I can get a suit tailored for £70 like I saw on Top Gear.

You can get that done pretty much anywhere in SE Asia. In fact it gets annoying at how easy you can get it done! Suit sir, massage, Tuk Tuk, Scuba diving, woman, drugs, constantly being shouted in your ear. I cant wait to go back!!!!   :D

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Indeed...........Isle of Dogs i believe!!

Isle of Dogs of War ?