Hello everybody! Now then, we decided that we wanted to visit the Rattanakiri area, north-east of Cambodia (touching the Laos and Vietnam borders) days ago...the 'Lonely Planet' travel bible talks of jungle trekking and volcanic lakes, so we booked our tickets and went. Loving Cambodia as much as we do, we thought it would be joyful to go to bed at 2am (liking the choice of dvd's at our hostel and the comfy chairs too much) and get up at 5am to take a 12 hour bu...

Phnom Penh, Capital of Cambodia, start of November!!!! All righty then! Think we left you with tales of our relaxing time spent drinking 'Angkor' beer - named after the infamous Angkor Wat city of ruins - in hammocks and watching dvds in the common bean bag area with fellow backpackers at our new favourite hostel by the lake! Arrived late thurs night and hooked up with our friends from the mekong trip, Emily, 29 from London been travelling on her home for 5...

Now then everyone!!! DAY 1 Woke in Saigon at 7am got our backpacks which we had packed the previous night cos were well organised, and headed to the tour office to await the bus! When the bus arrived debs actually hugged the tourist woman as she had helped us loads and planned all our trips, although i still don't think she was expecting it!!! Got a couple of hours bus journey to the first village where we had some food and some local tea with honey and you cou...

Right then, Friday 26th (we think) we took a 4 hour bus journey from Saigon back up to Mui Ne. We chose to miss this place out but when we drove through on our journey from Nha Trang to Saigon but it looked bloody nice so we decided to take a three day 'break from the city' hehe Landed at 12pm at a place called The Watering Hole, a place we were directed to by a Scottish lass the night before in a pub in Saigon. It was $7 per night which we though was ok, h...

Hello everyone......it's been a while and we've been bloody busy!!! We left you at Ho Chi Minh City so we'll start from there! We spent the first day in Saigon booking trips and generally getting our bearings and then went out on the town where we found a young American bloke sat at the bar with a bottle of scotch. Sat drinking with him for a couple of hours and headed to another bar where we stumbled across some Welsh blokes we met in Nha Trang (which is ...