The bus to Jenrantut was fairly quiet, it was also quite luxurious compared to what I’d been used to, just three reclining seats in each row meant we all had lots of space to sprall out and fall asleep for the 5 hour drive. At this point I hadn’t spoken to Marjin, Haf or the two sweeds (is that how you spell it when you are referring to Swedish people?) but we’d given each other the westerners nod. I hadn’t seen it much in Southern Asia, as it is more t...

The bus was running about 3 hours late in to KL, I’m not sure how the driver was steaming down the motorway the whole way there. We arrived in KL at 3am, I grabbed a taxi to the hostel that I had booked on hostel-bookers, it took the driver a while to find it, and we drove around the block about four times. When we finally arrived, the gates were locked, I took my bags from the boot and rang the bell as the taxi disappeared in to the distance with his well ear...

I had been warned about the border towns between Thailand & Malaysia being quite dangerous and duly read up on the subject in my ‘knock off Nigel’ Lonely Planet. The advice was to either fly or go by sea, my intention had been to cross the border at Kota Bharu and catch the jungle train down through Tama Nagara, taking a few days to do some trekking in the jungle before heading to Kuala Lumpur. Knowing that Mum would kill me if I got myself murdered or ...

The bus journey to Siem Reap was pretty uncomfortable, the bus had lots of mosquitos on it, the air con was pretty pants and I had a dose of food poisoning on a six hour bus ride with no toilet it wasn't fun! We had a group dinner as it was Long's birthday, I still felt quite rough so headed back to the hotel afterwards plus we had a 5am start in the morning to catch the sun rise at Angkor Wat.Long and a few of the others stayed out until about 3am, and boy did ...

An early start on the road to Kompong Cham starts with breakfast at the bakery. We are only in Kompong Cham for one night as it is serving as a stopover, the halfway point between Phnom Pehn and Siem Reap.In the afternoon we took a tuk tuk tour of the town, it's a very eerie place, a lot of residents have made a fortune from rubber and moved out to Phnom Pehn, over the past ten years the population as dropped by 150,000 people to just over 50,000! The tuk tuk f...