We all moved hotels to the west coast (Medewi bay retreat) it was very nice, Quiet and in the middle of no where, not a bar or resturant for miles, just little villages and roadside stalls that sold the very basic of supplies. We were shown to our room but before the man could show us how to make the sofa bed we were suprisingly upgraded to a 3 bedroom palace right on the pool, it was an amazing apartment, we had hit the jackpot. We again lazed around the pool re...

Taman Negara is one of the worlds oldest rainforests and is also a national park, at over 135 million years of age and has survived two ice ages, seeing the maylasian jungle was somthing simon had wanted to do since he knew we were visiting the country . we took a bus to a place called jerantut where we got a small motorized canoue down a river into the rainforest , after about 3 hours we arrived at a small muslim village with a few floating cafes where we could...

.........The ten of us hired a mini bus to get us to the border, about 10 km from the border we stopped and had to hire a tuk tuk to take us across the border and to the nearest bus station on the other side, There were many tuk tuks and we bartered for nearly and hour to try and get the price down from 4 dollars each to 3 dollars. While we bartered we heard 3 landmines go off as they were clearing them nearby.We needed a tuk tuk to go over the border not just to...

We took a bus to siam reap it took about 6 hours,we met a cambodian guy on the bus who worked at a hotel (happy guesthouse) so we got a free lift with him avoiding the crowds of motorbike taxis. it was nice enough for 4 dollars a night with free ride to the main strip which was full of nice bars and restarants.        the guy we met on the couch was the tuk tuk driver for the guesthouse (he keeps calling  sim...

We crossed into cambodia and got an overbooked bus to Phnom penh, even the driver had to have luggage on his knee Phnom penh was nothing like we had imagined, it was well built and very clean although it did have lots of limbless beggars and street children. We hired a tuk tuk to take us to the killing fields, one of the places where pol pot a former cambodian leader masacered most of cambodias educated people and all there familys in his bid to " rest...