STEP 1: Very Rough Itinerary

Step 1: Finalizing the Itinerary (sort of)

Finally, after contemplating on where to start in our Indochina trip, I have our (not-so) final itinerary. Good thing, I have found a blog which had an itinerary for the same trip, so I basically copied it. Though we will be having a different tour from the author, I thought that duplicating her itinerary will make a better choice since I do not have proper knowledge in travelling to these foreign lands. We are looking at August 20 - 28 trip (9 days/ 8 nights) since there will be 2 holidays on this week (Ninoy Aquino day and Araw ng Kagitingan), and so we can only have 5 day-leave from our respective work.

Anyway, we will be having the said trip as:

Green: MNL- BKK; Yellow: BKK - SR; Pink: SR - PP; Blue: PP - HCMC; Red: HCMC - MNL

So, here is the draft itinerary for the trip:

Day 1: Flight to Bangkok, Thailand (afternoon fight will do). Night 1 at Bangkok.

Day 2: Bangkok tour. Night 2 at Bangkok.

Day 3: Morning train to Siam Reap (6 hour-ride to Aranyaphathet, crossing the border to Cambodia through Poipet and taking a bus ride for 3 hours to arrive in Siam Reap). Night 1 at Siam Reap.

Day 4: Angkor Wat tour. Night 2 at Siam Reap.

Day 5: Morning bus to Phnom Penh (6 hour ride to Phnom Penh). Night 1 at Phnom Penh.

Day 6: Phnom Penh tour

Day 7: Morning bus to Ho Chi Minh City/ Saigon (7 hour bus ride to HCMC)

Day 8: HCMC tour

Day 9: Flight back to Manila.

So this is the itinerary we will be following during the 3-country travel. We have yet to discuss the specific areas we will be visiting from each of the country. :)

Step 2: Look for a cheap flight from Manila - Bangkok, HCMC (Saigon) - Manila. :)

And yes, step 1 and step 2 are interchanged. We made this so we can properly allot the times we will be spending from each of the country, so we know when we will be leaving Manila and coming back. Its hard to miss these small details.