The bus journey from Saigon was horribly long and uneventful, so I will move on to our first proper day in Siem Reap. Our first impressions were positive, we loved the place. Clean, lots of cheap eats, trendy places and best of all lots of markets! We walked around the city wandering into shops and spent a whopping $15 at a pharmacy stocking up on all our necessities before we left South East Asia. We layed around for the afternoon drinking on beanbags in a clos...

The journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh (AKA Saigon) took us about 2 hours by Plane. We both were a bit apprehensive about visiting Saigon, as backpackers we have met throughout Vietnam did not speak highly of it. On arrival, it was immediately evident that Scooters flock the streets by the thousands. Both William and I are now experts at crossing roads and have learnt that the best way is to just put your head down, cross the road and everyone will swerve around y...

Instead of sticking to the origanal plan of going to Laos, we decided to catch the bus back to Bangkok (12 hours over night) and flew to Hanoi in Vietnam. When we arrived in Vietnam we were greeted by a man holding up our names at the airport. We were then driven to our guest house in the old quater in Hanoi, which is the backpackers area. When we arrived they were very friendly and cooked us a free breakfast. After we checked into our room and a fight had cleare...

We caught the overnight bus up to Chiang Mai and arrived around 6am in the morning. Chiang Mai is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. Its a dynamic and modern city and we loved every bit of it. We stayed in a guest house very close to the main street so we were able to walk to the markets and eat/drink locally. For both of us, Thailand has arguably been our favourite country in South East Asia and our time in Chiang Mai only co...

Once back on the mainland we caught an overnight bus to Bangkok . We had to change bus several times throughout the trip but we managed to arrive safely to bangkok bus station at 5am. We got a taxi into the city with a few other friends and stayed at a well known area close to Khoa San road. This area was packed tightly with hotels, guest houses, markets and is home to most to Bangkok's nightlife. Our hotel had 2 roof top pools whih looked out over bangkok city. ...