Hello there!

Just to keep you a little bit up to date about our latest location: We are on Phu Quoc, an island in front of the border between Cambodia and Vietnam.
On Easter Sunday we headed from Sihanoukville (in the south of the Cambodian west coast) to Ha Tien at the Vietnamese border. Our Easter surprise was the walk across the border, although it was really hot we enjoyed this traditional way of crossing borders. At the Vietnamese side we were welcomed with an Ebola test! On the one hand funny and exciting, on the other hand a little bit disturbing because we only knew it from the TV, far away from our reality! Of course we had to pay extra for this test, one Dollar each which disappeared immediately in the pocket of the officer! :D
So from Ha Tien we took the ferry to Phu Quoc and since then we explored the island with scooters and relax at the hostel pool.
The whole island is in a big change, everywhere you see constructions going on, the whole street in front of our hostel is a huge construction area and all the bigger roads are newly built. Along the west coast to the north it was extreme. We tried to find the recommended beaches of my travel guide but all we found were some small, not very clean bays, abandoned and with uninviting water. We drove on long dirt roads through a thick forest but every time we saw some beaches there were constructions on huge resorts which had put barriers everywhere so we couldn't get to the beach.
In the middle of nowhere there is enormous deforestation and creation of hotel cities which do not really ecological. We also found a big holiday park that looked like Disney Land...in the middle of the forest!
We are really lucky to be here now and not when all those buildings will be finished and there is no way to get to the coast anymore. It makes us a little bit sad to see how they ignore their nature and their culture. It seems that they are blinded by profits and the promise of foreign investors.
We are now looking forward to get on the mainland tomorrow and stay in the Mekong Delta. As Niklas' friend Stephan has joined us for our trip in Vietnam, we are now traveling in a group of four (which turns ever four-bed dorm into a private room :P )
We will soon be updating our blog with posts of our recent days in Kuala Lumpur and Cambodia.

We hope you had great and relaxing Eastern!

Sending some sun to you,

Lisa & Molin