Simon's despatch: A very flying visit to Lima. Arrived at 7am after about 15 hours of non-eventful flying. Got taken to a rather nice little hotel in the Miraflores district and immediately bailed on previous plans of a busy day exploring and had a nap! Once sufficiently recovered we strolled down to the pacific coast to a shopping mall built into the cliffs. Apart from providing a nice view to enjoy a drink over it also provides a wonderful insight into the op...

The mission: see Bangkok in four days. Our base number 1 (two nights) was the Khao San Road area of Bangkok. It's backpacker central, which is why we went! The road is a tourist attraction in itself, full of cut-price tourist wares like hilarious t-shirts, bars that sell towers of beer and - in our case - an amazing street dancing display. Day 1 From this base we saw the grand palace and the Siam museum. The Grand Palace is unbelievably bling. Never have I see...

Before we lost out Lonely Planet guide in Vietnam, we saw that the number two thing to do in South East Asia is to watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat. It came above the Gibbon Experience on the LP awesomeness scale, so naturally it had to be done. The temples at Angkor, just outside Siem Reap in Cambodia are many and varied. It's recommended that you take three days to do them all and we did just that. The first two days we spent cycling between the biggest temp...

And so finally we reached Phnom Penh and Cambodia. This is the last new country on our list and we only have a week or so here before we head to Bangkok and then home. We're glad to be here, but a bit sad that the adventure is coming to an end! Finding accomodation in Phnom Penh is the least physical effort we've had to make so far. You can try and resist them but eventually you will be adopted by a tuk tuk driver whether you want to or not and they will drive y...

We arrived into Ho Chi Minh City (also known as "HCMC" or "Saigon") on the night train. This was a huge comfort step up from the night buses - there were pillows, proper toilets and a nice lady bought you dinner. Unfortunately it arrived into town at 4am in the morning. So our first impression of Saigon was one of it being dark and locked up, but we managed to find a nice place to stay and grab a couple more hours of sleep before brekkie. First on our list of th...