Nha Trang, the holiday resort for Vietnam. A sort of Blackpool with endless hotels and restaurants, but here they have a great 6km stretch of sandy beach and good swimming. The downside is the place is over-run with touts, they will tout you in the hotel reception, outside the hotel, walking down the street, eating in a restaurant, drinking in a bar, lying on the beach, nowhere but the toilet is safe. As soon as the Vietnamese can walk some become touts. A commo...

Our bus is making a noise like a walrus working his way down the beach and the driver is forced to pull over. Most of the passengers crowd out looking for a bit of excitement on the boring journey. The bus has four tyres on the back axle and one of the inside tryes has disintegrated and become jammed in the wheel arch. Most of us sit on the road side watching the driver and his mate crawling under the bus pulling out segments of the tyre. Luckily the inner tube i...

In Sihanoukville we got to explore Cambodia's beach scene. Annoyingly it rained for most of the week which left us reading or watching discovery channel in-between quick motorbike tours to the surrounding area. I ended up reading all about a very controversial, bold and possible stupid move the Cambodian government have just made. Almost half of the country has just been sold to outside investors. A huge 45% of the land in Cambodia has now been sold off to foreig...

We are welcomed into the capital of Cambodia -Phnom Penh - by a statue of a giant gun in the middle of a round-a-bout, wild west style and this theme continues throughout our stay. On our first day we decide to walk around the tourist sites and take an early morning stroll along the river to try and catch a large part of the poulation performing their daily tai chi. Siam Reap is quite modernised and staying their it was easy to forget you're travelling in a third...

The Temples of Angkor - worthy of all the hype surrounding them and very photogenic. We entered Cambodia from Thailand and the border crossing was long, complicated and expensive, but we do manage to arrive in the beautiful town of Siam Reap before nightfall, which is handy in the land on no street lights or sometimes pavements. Siam Reap is the local town closest to the temples of Angkor. It is here that we're meeting up with Tom and Emma, our English fri...