First of all, sorry for the late update on Malaysia- its been an interesting 2 weeks in Australia so far camping with limited access to the internet so i am now tying to make up for that :.) We started our journey in Malaysia with an amazing couchsurfing experience. We had met Yi through couchsurfing.com, a website for travellers where you can meet locals and either meet up with them for a drink or stay with them at their place. We stayed with Yi for 2 nights in...

We arrived in Phnom Penh from Vietnam by boat and under torrential rain! Despite this, the journey was great on a comfortable boat with long chairs. Our first impression of Cambodia was madness- about 20 people cramped into a minivan, hanging out the back of it and holding on for grim death! In addition to this the journey by bus to Phnom Penh was quite bumpy with numerous holes in the roads and roadworks being undertaken at the same time! This country appeared t...

It's been a while since i've had the chance to update you all on our travels but we have found a moment (and internet access) today in Siem Riep. So we started our journey through Vietnam in Hanoi- the very north of this long, vast country. The first thing that hit us was the speed at which this country is developing. The second thing was the mass of motorbikes on the roads! To overtake someone here (overtake I mean somehow get past them) they beep their horns a...

Warning! This blog entry will be a long one as we have spent 11 nights in Luang Prabang So we left Vang Vieng and headed on towards Luang Prabang (7 hours in the minivan but only about 150km distance!) After having tried to reserve 2 places on the VIP bus, we were put into a minivan(!) and succumbed to the fact that we were never going to be able to contest this with the driver due to our inability to speak the language, the fact that it was raining and that th...

So here we are again updating you on our travels.... Since we left you last time we have travelled further up north to the capital of Laos-Vientiane or Vien Chang as the locals call it- something to do with the French not being able to pronounce it and giving it a new name (of course this was a long time ago!) We took the night bus to Vientiane from Pakse which was called a sleeper bed bus (or something like this) and it meant that we had a double bed on the bus...