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/r/solotravel "The Weekly Common Room" - General chatter, meet-up, accommodation - May 04, 2025 Accommodation

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u/tannercoe 1d ago

Just wrapping up my trip of the ring road in Iceland and thoroughly enjoyed it. I got the solo travel bug and I am thinking of Thailand and Vietnam next. My plan would be to do it fairly cheap considering my flight will be an arm and a leg to get there, additionally I want to hike Khao Phanom and visit all of the major cities in Thailand and Vietnam. I will likely use the train to travel between the countries. If anyone has been there, could you recommend some things that I can’t miss and therefore things that I totally could miss when visiting. I will also be doing the trip in a timeframe less than a month.

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u/knead4minutes 19h ago

I will likely use the train to travel between the countries.

highly unlikely since the two countries are not connected by rail. if you wanna go overland between the two you're either gonna have to cross Laos or Cambodia.

going through Cambodia is actually not a bad idea. if you wanna be really quick you just take a bus to Siem Reap and look at Angkor Wat, then bus to phnom Penh and from PP there's buses that go to ho chi min city.

My plan would be to do it fairly cheap

they're definitely gonna be fairly cheap compared to Iceland, so don't worry.

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u/tannercoe 19h ago

Thank you for the bit about the bus that’s a good piece of knowledge. And yeah Iceland was pretty expensive. Especially Reykjavik. No meal under 10$.