Koh Chang, August 6th After a brief night stay in the city of Trat we set our day's goal on the jungle island paradise of Koh Chang. Before boarding the ferry we met a couple from England, Adam and Georgia, who became our travel companions for the following three days. As we sat on the open-aired upper deck of the worn out ferry we were greeted by a fierce monsoon, which is exactly where one would like to be when a monsoon storm hits! Traveling through Asia d...

When writing our travel blog we try to limit the amount of negative material we include; after all, who really wants to hear us complain anyways? If you wanted to hear bad news you could just pick up the newspaper or turn on CNN, right? Most of the time things do work out with a bit of planning and flexibility, but sometimes it doesn't matter how much planning you do, travel plans don't always work out the way you want and bad days will happen. Crossing the Camb...

We decided to leave the tourist driven city of Siem Reap for the more laid back city of Battambang. We purchased our bus tickets from our hotel manager Koy, who informed us that there was only one bus leaving for Battambang leaving at 7:00 am sharp. Having no reason to disbelieve him, other than the fact that the majority of the time he was stoned and/or drunk, we waited for our pick up at 6:30 am sharp. Our transfer picked us up on time and had us at the makesh...

Temples of AngkorYou've probably seen photos of the world famous Angkor Wat and have some idea of what it looks like. If you haven't, do yourself a favour and either look at our photo albums or do an internet search on the temples of Angkor. What many people don't know is that Angkor Wat is only one of hundreds of spectacular temples that are spread throughout 77 square miles of Cambodian jungle. That said, Angkor Wat is worthy of all its hype as the most imp...

Siem Reap, July 26 Our travels through SE Asia continued as we moved five hours north from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. Prior to departing Phnom Penh we had our new friend Juan (our Cambodian tuk tuk driver, tour guide and drinking companion) organize his friend to pick us up upon arrival in Siem Reap. Our tuk tuk driver (Juan's friend) picked us up from the bus company's location, I want to say terminal but that would give you a false perception because it was real...