The night bus from Champasak to Vientiane was the first time we'd been on a bus with bunk beds. We had a top bunk that we had to share and it was definitely designed with the Asian population in mind, it was absolutely tiny. Still, it was pretty good to be able to lie down properly rather than being in a semi reclining seat. On our second day here we hired bikes for the day and went to look around a few temples. It was whilst we were here that we decided we were...

After chilling out in Don Det for 5 nights it was time to move on so we headed to Champasak as there was a another ancient temple here that we wanted to see. The morning after we got there we hired a moped to go and see the ruins. It was only once I got on the back of the moped that I realised it was tiny. Usually I can't touch the floor properly but on this bike I could put both my feet flat on the floor. This meant that my knees were almost touching my chin o...

We should have known when our mini bus was 45 minutes late that the journey from Kratie to Laos would not be a good one. We have never seen 1) so many people crammed into one minibus (about 24) and 2) so much luggage strapped onto the back including a moped and a cage full of puppies! We were squashed onto the back seat, I had room for one foot and the other was on the wheel arch, Casson had a local guy practically asleep on his shoulder drooling and there was a...

We arrived in Kratie and for the first time ever we weren't swarmed by tuk tuk or moto drivers. In fact it looked like there weren't any about, we walked a little way along the river and we spotted a couple so imagine our surprise when Casson spotted that one of the had my name on a laminated sheet. The hotel we were staying at had sent one to meet our bus! Kratie was lovely and our hotel had a pool so even though there wasn't much to do there we decided to stay...

As soon as we arrived in Siem Reap we knew we would like it, the centre was really beautiful on the river and it just had a really nice feel to it. We arranged to go to Angkor Wat the following day by tuk tuk, this involved a full day as there are many temples within the archeological park. The scale of it is immense and the temples completely blow you away, we won't bore you with the details of all of them (our pictures can do that) but it's definitely a must s...