I wake up its still dark, look at my watch 4.05am??? Time to get up! Fortunately the old body clock kicked in earlier than April's 3.45am alarm which didn't seem to work for some reason... No drama though we were easily in time for our driver Mr EE at 4.30am. It was a new experience passing through the streets of Siem Reap in the peaceful darkness of the early morning. We stopped off at the check point and had our pictures taken for the day ticket and paid the $2...

After simply "chilling" on Wednesday after our epic bus journey from Laos the previous day we were ready and raring again (well I was anyway, Ash is a little bit more relaxed) to explore Siem Reap. The only highlight of Wednesday was having dinner with a nice girl called Dani we`d met at the guest house who was from Boston. We really enjoy meeting different people! We lazed on the comfy chairs on the veranda in amazement at how cheap Palm Garden Lodge (...

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...

Both me and Ash had enjoyed our day relaxing on Don Khon and were really excited about our day of kayaking with the people we`d met the previous day. When arranging the deal the day before the guy had told us he would pick us up at 9am from our bungalow and the plan would be for the others to kayak down the river to us. This sounded ideal as it meant we didn't have to bike over to the other island and so we both sat in our hammocks eagerly awaiting their arrival ...

After a quick and trouble free bus ride south from Pakse we arrived at the ferry port to 4,000 islands. We had deliberated lots about which island to stay on and in the end we decided Don Khon would be the one for us. Described by lonely planet as 'the real Laos' we went for it and got a long tail boat over to the island. On arrival we had to do a good balancing act to get out of the rocking boat safely without landing in the Mekong but once we managed it we wand...