I've learnt something not very surprising about myself on this trip - lack of sleep and long bus rides makes me grumpy!! I arrived in HCMC, Saigon, whatever you want to call it in the pouring rain. I immediately got scammed by a taxi driver who charged me an extortionate amount to take me basically round the corner and drop me off by a non-existent guesthouse. It was on a meter - just one of those meters that is set to go up stupidly fast! First error. I had ...

I hadn't intended to go to Sihanoukville, but I also hadn't intended to only visit two cities in Cambodia, and Yoholi and Darren were going, so I decided to tag along and see a bit more of the country. The three of us caught a morning bus down - much to Darren's disgust! - and arrived at lunch time to find that unfortunately the cooling effect of the sea breeze doesn't exist in Cambodia. It was absolutely stifling. We argued our tut-tuk driver into taking us t...

Yoholi and I were tuk-tuked over to the bus depot and caught the morning bus down to Phnom Penh. We didn't know much about where to go there but I'd been told loads of bad things about it - and to get out as quickly as possible. We arrived only knowing of one Accommodation, so we went there - Okay Guesthouse, near Riverside. It seemed friendly enough, and with sharing a room it was pretty cheap too. They also sort out Vietnam visas which was useful, but becau...

Having spent most of my time in Bangkok alone, I was happy to meet Freddie (19, England) as we boarded the "VIP" bus to Siem Reap. It was also better to not be alone for scam aversion - but it didn't appear to help us on a day when the World was conspiring to scam us. The coach was pretty strange, with the back being a bit like a limousine with long bench type seats which meant we could sleep properly - as long as i curled my legs out of the way of th...

I continued with my illogical route around South-East Asia with a trip to Bangkok, via KL. I arrived at KL airport in the morning and bumped into Matt - the one whose fault it was I was in Borneo in the first place as he wouldn't stop talking about it! (thanks Matt - owe you one!) He was off to Indonesia - via KL as well - on the same flight, so we hung out together once again. We'd both allowed the same amount of time in KL - too long - so made the most of the...