The bus ride from Siem Reap into Laos was going to take us a full day, from 5.30am to 6pm. We were prepared for this and ready to sit on a bus for over 12 hours. What we were not prepared for was the change over to small, old minivan, with a cracked windscreen and no air con, with a driver who felt it necessary to go on a long detour to deliver planks of wood to a farm in the middle of no where. This wasn't helped by the fact that 15 of us were squeezed into 12 s...

So one of the best parts about our stay in Siem Reap was that our hostel had a pool. A lovely clean, refreshing pool!! Within 10 minutes of arriving we had checked in, dumped the bags, grabbed swimsuits and jumped in. Definately the only way to recover after a long, hot bus journey. The main attraction at Siem Reap is the Angkor Temples. So the next day we arranged a sunset visit with a tuk tuk driver where we could get tickets for the following day and see the ...

After the capital of Cambodia we headed south and to the coast. Our original destination was a small town called Kampot but we ended up being persuaded to get off early at Kep by two others travelling on the same bus. Kep is a small market town on the edge of the sea and specialises in catching, cooking and selling fresh seafood. Our new friends from the bus had plans to stop off at the Kep crab market for lunch and continue on to Kampot later. Not wanting to mis...

As we pulled into Phnom Penh, after spending the day on the bus, we were immediately greeted by a tuk tuk driver waving enthusiastically at us through the window. I smiled and causiously waved back, this was followed by a lot of large arm gestures and pointing. Before we'd even got down the steps of the bus he was shouting up at us "tuk tuk, tuk tuk!!". He was obviously on a mission to get us in his tuk tuk, so we took advantage and bargained hard for a cheap tr...

Our trip from Nha Trang to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh) was another 12 hour bus journey, only this time it wasn't overnight. There is only day-time buses for this particular section of road, due to it being unsafe to drive along at night. So we departed Nha trang at 7.30am and didn't arrive in Saigon until 7pm!! It was a long day. We got plenty of stops for food and loo breaks and at one particular roadside cafe were highly amuzed by a monkey that was running around t...