On the 12th January we were on our way to Siem Reap to visit Angkor Wat. We arrived at the bus station and booked our tuk tuk driver to drive us round the temples the next day - with an eye wateringly early start of 4.45 to be there for the sunrise! We had a nice surprise to find out that Herbert (Hue Santa from a few weeks back) was also in Siem Reap and would come along with us the next day. So at 5am off we set, not realising that you have to have a photo t...

Sua s'dei from Phnom Penh. As I stated before, Phnom Penh was not my favourite place from my first impression, and it didn't do much to redeem itself - not helped by the tuk tuk driver who picked us up from the bus station not having a clue where our hostel was, despite telling us otherwise! Oh well, if we're not used to transport delays by now we never will be. Upon our return to the capital we promptly booked a tuk tuk to take us the the killing fields and S-2...

On the 6th January we got a bus to Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and for the country I was expecting to be least advanced I was very surprised to see our first finger print machine at the border crossing, outside of Bangkok airport! This made for a good first impression, which was swiftly swept aside when we encountered a young girl, maybe about 10, with a baby on her hip, its hands covered in blue antiseptic stuff, begging for change at a ferry boat crossing. This was...

We spent my birthday on the bus, but for a change it was through the day so we actually got to see some of the scenery of Vietnam - or at least I did as Nina falls asleep as soon as we get on any mode of transport! From Nha Trang the scenery is a lot like the South of France - pastel villas with bougainvillea everywhere, although the cows and chickens on the side or the road are a little different! There was even a haphazard graveyard on a hillside - the graves p...

We moved down to Nha Trang for New Year, as it is on the coast and we were hoping for a nice beachy new year and some better weather! We arrived at 6am, and having learnt from our previous mistake with the taxi in Hanoi made sure to get a properly licensed one to our hostel. We were quoted 100,000 kip (about 3.20) by an unlicensed man we promptly told to get lost, and paid a measly 10,000 kip for the proper taxi - you really do get screwed over if you aren't ca...