We travelled from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City on a 7 hour journey, which all went smoothly. We spent an evening in the bustling backpacker district and catching up on our street food, which we hadn't found so readily in Cambodia! We spent a day walking around the sites and visited the huge indoor market, the Reuinifcation Palace and Notre Dame building. It was home to the president during the Vietnam war and is symbolic largely due to the fact that At 10:45 o...

Whilst waiting for our bus from the Laos capital, Vientiane, to Pakse in the South we saw some great-looking buses with individual DVD players and all sorts which made them look rather more appealing than the budget one we were expecting. Much to my delight when our bus arrived it was better than we had anticipated! We walked on and were initially a bit shocked to find actual beds where the seats normally are. There was a row of bunk beds down each side of the bu...

We took an overnight bus from Chiang Mai to Udon Thani, got through the Laos border (after a $35 US dollar visa each!), and headed to our destination of Vientiane, the capital of Laos. We found a hostel and went for lunch on the banks of the mighty Mekong River. Over the next two days we explored Vientiane on foot and for a capital city (only 200,000 people) I have to say that Vientiane is extremely quiet and a bit dull. We then headed for Vang Vieng courtesy o...

We left the Perhentian Islands and shared a taxi to the border with some Danish girls who had been on the islands too. We walked across the border and into Thailand, and a further 1.5kms to the train station. There was a train leaving at 11.30am but we were worried that it would get us in to Bangkok in the middle of the night, in which case we would prefer to wait around the town and catch a later train so as to arrive at a reasonable time in Bangkok. When I aske...

We arrived in Kuala Lumpur around 5 hours after leaving Singapore. The border crossing was seamless and so was the journey, a lot easier than expected! We stayed in Chinatown again, managed to find the hostel easily and the guy at reception helped us loads with our travel plans for the coming days. We had to go to the bus station to get tickets for the next day then we went in search of food. The food courts really are the way to go as you get so much value for m...