After a couple of months in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand it was a nice change to be in a modern clean city again although our time in Singapore was limited to 2 days. We spent most of our time in Singapore walking around the city and taking in the sights. Our budget is dwindling and Singapore in an expensive city, so Singapore Slings at Raffles were right out of the question. We walked around the Padang watching a cricket game at the exclusive Singapore Recrea...

Our South East Asia adventure was almost at an end and we had to make our way to Singapore for our next flight to Australia. We had considered travelling overland but it looked like a long journey and southern Thailand is dangerous even by train. Consequently we made our way to Phuket to catch a flight to Singapore. The Koh Tao to Phuket trip was accomplished by a combination of night boat and mini bus transfer although we must comment that the Thai travel people...

The night train from Bangkok to Chumphon was a pleasant affair despite only having fan cooling rather than air conditioning which our guide book had urged us to take. The beds were big and comfortable and the compartment spacious. We got off the train at Chumphon at 4am then transferred onto a coach then to a high speed catamaran arriving on the island of Koh Tao around 10am. Once again we hadn't booked any accommodation in advance so faced the prospect of a wal...

After the history of Angkor Wat we found ourselves in Bangkok for 3 nights to introduce ourselves to Thailand. Our original plan would have seen us travel north from Siem Reap to Laos, but we really didn't have time to make that journey and therefore had to change the plan. It was a shame and we'll have to visit Laos on another trip. We travelled to Bangkok by bus, although this time the border crossing was not nearly as smooth as we had become accustomed to. Th...

We arrived in Siem Reap during the early evening after a 6 hour coach journey from Phnom Penh. The bus station is outside of the town centre and is populated by lots of very pushy tuk tuk drivers, possibly the most persistent and annoying we've encountered. We had pre-arranged to look at a hostel with one of them, but he was so pushy we blew him out! We then went to plan B and just got transport (with a different driver) into town and then thought we'd find a hos...