After leaving Cambodia, we got a coach (Another one!!!) to Vietnam. It was a relatively short journey of 6 hrs, but we had to cross the border along the way.This was uneventful but tedious as you have to take all your gear off the bus,go into a passport office where they check your visa, then go into a customs clearance area where they scan your bag and check the bus before you are allowed back on. We spent the first night in Ho Chi Minh City, but left early th...

Pnohm Penh Cambodia was initially colonized by the French from the 1850's onward. (along with Laos and Vietnam to make French Indochina.) This is reflected in the buildings and architecture that you see around you in the large towns of Cambodia.In particular, the Pnohm Penh the capital, has some very good examples of French Colonial Architecture, as well as the buildings themselves, there are wide open boulevards, and large green spaces dotted around the city. T...

Cambodia Pt 1- Siem Reap Cambodia as a country is just starting to reappear on the tourist trail after years of being off limits due to civil war. Whilst most of the country is rural farmland, there are 2 main cities which have embraced tourism, Phnom Penh (The capital) and Siem Reap-both of which we visited on our trip. The first stop was Siem Reap, the home of the ancient temple city of Angkor. The temples at Angkor are world famous and there are LOTS of templ...

Bangkok After 6 weeks travelling around Thailand, we finally got back to where we started… Bangkok. We had left it till the end and had only given ourselves a tight squeeze of 4 days to see what there was in town. We had heard differing opinions on Bangkok and it is definitely a city of contradictions., from the hustle and bustle of the Khao San Road to the quiet of the Royal Palace. The first day in town we had decided to do a bit of shopping as we were ...

Kanchanaburi The journey to Kanchanaburi, was a long and painful one…for me at least. Initially we had to get to Bangkok, which was easy enough as all the travel agents offer trips. This involved a 3 hour ferry ride to Chumphon on the mainland, and then a punishing 10 hour bus ride to Bangkok. Once we arrived in Bangkok, at 5 AM, it was time to get another bus to make the short 2 hr journey across to Kanchanaburi. As mentioned in the previous blog, we wer...