The volunteer group had arranged to go to Phi Phi for the weekend, leaving on Friday morning. Rich (Ali's boyfriend, my friend from home…they met in Thailand the last time I came here) was arriving into Phuket late Thursday night and had arranged to meet us by the ferry pier in the morning. Ali and I decided we were going to go to the airport and surprise him and spend the night in phuket with him and meet the others in the morning. We weren't sure which fl...

So I decided to skip Vietnam and Laos to go back to a place in Thailand called Khao Lak to meet up with my friend Ali. Khao Lak is where I volunteered 4 years ago for the Tsunami Volunteer Centre and also where I first met Ali. As soon as I got to Asia I could literally feel Thailand calling me and wanted to spend as much time there as possible so I figured Vietnam and Laos were places I could come back to if I felt regret at not going this time round. I de...

Liz's friend had told us the best things he had seen in Cambodia were an abandoned Pepsi factory and the bamboo train which were both located in Battambang so we decided to go there before the girls headed to Vietnam and I to Thailand. When we arrived we arranged for 2 tuk tuks to take us there after we had eaten. Battambang was much more like the 'real' Cambodia and I don't think they see too many tourists….it was supposed to be Cambodias second biggest ci...

Siam Reap was where we met up with Kat (who left Australia early to spend time with some family living in Borneo), Ally and Jess (2 Canadians the girls had met in South America before I met up with them) and Adam who we met up the east coast in Australia so it turned into a pretty big group with 8 of us! The first day we went for lunch at a butterfly restaurant which was really cool…the owners buy butterflies from the local children who catch them with nets ...

After Sihanoukville we headed along the coast and inland to a place called Kampot which one of our friends had recommended. They told us to stay in a place Bodhi Villas which they said was one of the nicest places they had stayed when they were travelling. When we got there though we weren't convinced and both charlotte and I wanted to find somewhere else but as Liz (who we met in Sydney and travelled the east coast with us) was meeting us there we had to stay....