We left Bangkok early on our Floating Market trip. We were surprised to hear that the first stop would be an Elelphant Village where we would have to pay to either take an elephant ride or watch a monkey show! We didn't want to spend any more money and it didn't sound very much like a market! The rest of the group agreed so fairly soon we were back on the road to the actual markets. We were all quickly bustled into a longtail boat which sped around the narrow can...

We had planned to fly from Siem Reap to Vientiane in Laos but after finding out the flight was $142 we though up a plan B! A bus to Bangkok and then a train from Bangkok up to Vientiane. Whilst this trip is taking longer it is only costing $30 - nice! The bus to the Thai border was not quite as nice as hoped! Legroom was defiantly Asian sized and the air conditioning involved opening all the windows and the door! It all improved when we got ba...

Another early start saw us arrive in the afternoon in Siem Reap, famous as the site of the ancient temples of Angkor Wat. We were picked up by a tuk tuk driver to take us to the hotel, which then seemed to mean that we were obliged to use him for all our transport from then on! After a bit of haggling and shopping around we agreed on a price for him to take us to see the sunset at Angkor Wat that evening, and then a full day trip (starting at 4.30am for the sunri...

Phnom Penh turned out to be a capital full of contrasts - walking one way from our hotel the houses were shacks surrounded by rubbish and open sewage, but with a few nice colonial buildings in between! In the other direction, as you got closer to the river, the city is much gleaner with grassy areas and some impressive monuments, which are surrounded by colourful fountains at night. On our first morning we had a well deserved lie in (!), before planning lots of ...

An early start as we headed from Saigon down to the Mekong Delta. Ironically saw our first bit of Vietnamese blue sky as we left! Luckily we did leave, our travel agent looked confused when we told him which trip we had come for, and spent the next half hour on the phone! Slightly worrying, but it was all sorted out in the end. Good start for the worst organised tour ever! After a couple of hours on the bus, we boarded very narrow longtail boats that took us fo...