Like a lot of places in Asia, Siem Reap is all about its temples. And it has some amazing ones. But it quite clearly knows it. The mark up on prices in this town, this Cambodian town, was crazy. From the food, to the transportation, to the entrance tickets, Siem Reap had it down. They were going to demand top dollar for every little thing, because they knew they could. With the temples difficult if not impossible to reach on your own in the 40 degree plus heat (...

As with Ho Chi Minh, our time in Phnom Penh was going to heavy. The main tourist attractions here, if they can even be called that, are The Killing Fields and the Prison Museum. Both of these sites were once part of a horrific system, implemented in the 1970s by Pol Pot and his party (the Khmer Rouge), which sought, out of some mad Marxist delusion, to cleanse the country through mass national genocide. It was a system which draws obvious parallels with that im...

The overnight bus to Hue was so much better than the one we endured from Yangshuo to Hong Kong. Unlike in China, it had relatively spacious beds, a toilet and even WiFi. Plus there was the added bonus of being surrounded by Western travellers and English speaking staff, which meant a lot less anxiety and confusion about what was going on. I even managed to get about four hours sleep. Once in Hue we were immediately met by two Vietnamese bikers whose job it was t...