A simple border crossing at Chiang Khong and it didn't take long for us to get en-route to Chiang Rai. It was a proper little Thai town which, with what seemed like all Thai towns, had an element of Western influence in the air, sporting shops like Boots and Tesco Lotus. The night bazaar was the highlight, with a huge open-air food court, with live music playing to the diners. From Chiang Rai, we moved onto Pai, possibly my favourite place in the whole of South...

Laos turned out to be a lazy couple of weeks. It's a really poor country but it's not something you would notice superficially, everyone's really friendly and no-one tries to rip you off for a being a tourist. Being a former French colony means the country's full of frogs but on the plus side it meant French baguette sandwich stalls lived everywhere. Ultimately it's a very chilled out country... Deciding not to travel down to the South of the country, we split o...

Saigon is an extremely busy city in the South of Vietnam, with about 7 million people living there, 5 million of who own a motorbike...need I say more on the pace of the place? There was plenty to do here though to escape the hustle of bustle of the road (and pavements). With it having a long history of wars and conflict, educational sights were abundant. We visited the reunification palace, with the tank which steamed through the palace gates in the 70's still i...

Cambodia instantly had a different feel to it. Poorer than its neighbours, it’s clear how much tourism impacts the community. The minute we stepped out of Phnom Penh airport we had numerous tuktuk and moto drivers fighting for our business, the minute we arrived at the Lakeside we were whisked into a guesthouse without a grunt or a nod and as soon as we stepped foot onto the street we found ourselves surrounded by children selling copied books. Our first night ...

Singapore was a truly East meets West experience. Ie. It’s developed, the prices are high and the technology advanced but you can get yourself back to the roots within minutes. We stayed in Little India, which provided a convenient base for us after eating at Indian hawker markets every night, but it was very easy for us to get almost anywhere within the city with its state of the art metro system more reliable than London’s. So we had a mosey around Little I...