We made our way up to Bangkok on a very early night train. It was the only one available, so it was a good thing we got to the station when we did. After an early morning and some coffee we made our way to my Uncle Philip's flat. It was so nice to get a hot shower and have a home atmosphere. We spent our days sort of pottering about. We managed to find an official dealer for our camera and get it replaced, visited the IT mall and were able to have our pictures r...

Our trip over the border into Thailand was easy and straightforward, it just took a long time. All the buses from Siem Reap leave at exactly the same time, so of course they get to the border at roughly the same time, then at the border they only have 1 desk open to start with, eventually they decided to open a second one. You can tell nobody really thought this whole process through all the way. We were however lucky that our bus driver agreed to drop us off at ...

We have spent the last 4 days in the city of Siem Reap and visiting the sights of Angkor Wat. It has been a busy few days and I think it's safe to say that we are Wat'd out. But the sights have been fantastic. We got here a day early to figure out how we wanted to attack the many temples, plus to spend some time in the actual city. Our first day of temple visits we rented some bikes, not the moto type as they don't let tourists ride them around here. We think t...

Our trip out of Vietnam was a lot less eventful than the one entering. This time we just sat on a boat as we crossed the border into Cambodia, very relaxing and easy. This was quite surprising considering the stories that we'd read about corrupt customs officials on the border. When we got to Phnom Penh we were thrown back into city life. Lights, cars/moto, horns, traffic etc. We only spent one full day here, but it was an interesting day. We visited the Killing...

So we thought we'd tackle the Mekong Delta on our own, even with the vast choices of 3 day tours. We wanted to spend longer. So we set off by doing a 1 day trip and just didn't go back to HCMC. We thought this was a great idea seeing as it was only $2 more than a standard bus ticket. On our 1 day trip we went around My Tho and Ben Tre provinces, seeing coconut candy being made, sampling banana wine, honey tea, as well and various local fruits. All in all a good d...