Monday morning we caught the bus after much deliberation about which company to go with ( the ticket was just under 3GBP which is the cheapest transport so far!) to Mui Ne, a beach destination where Ash was hoping to kitesurf. The journey was pleasant and we even got given a bottle of water and hand towel which was a bonus. We did however encounter another sick incident but detaisl will be spared! After a 5 hour journey we arrived in Mui Ne, the sun was shining, ...

So we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon) the land of motorbikes on Thursday evening! Our paramount bus ride was pretty easy although we arrived in the rain so got bundled into a taxi before we could ask the driver how much. Many travellers had told us to be wary in Vietnam compared to the neighbouring asian countries so we were a little concerned but the driver seemed friendly enough and after the usual football conversation (many people associate England wi...

Once upon a time S-21, as it is now known, was a normal Phnom Phen high school. On first glance it could have yet still been so but in need of some big repairs but closer inspection revealing the use of barbed wire on most of the open passages began to tell the story that this was something different. We were first taken to a lower classroom that contained a rusted bed frame and a farming tool. This was one of a few torture rooms where prisoners (innocent civ...

We were both sad to leave Siem Reap on Sunday but enjoyed a relatively easy 6 hour bus journey to the capital Phnom Pehn where we were meeting Benj and Esther and their two children Imani and Jedd; some friends we know from Loughborough. Having been away for 4 weeks the thought of seeing familiar faces was really exciting! Having managed to find them after being dropped off in the middle of a random street (no bus station), we made our way in their tuk tuk to the...

Today; Laos to Cambodia overland... We started early catching an 8am longtail boat to get us to mainland and connect with our bus. Just under three hours later we were at the border crossing. $2 later we had paid a Laos exit fee and had our bags on our back to cross the 100m of ''no mans land'' to Cambodia. On arrival were paying another dollar to have the back of our throats measured for temperature using infra red, supposedly a health screen, although the gu...