The drive from the homestay at Chambok was pretty grueling, we were stuck on a cramped mini bus, all of us were tiered, a little hungover, dehydrated and generally a little grumpy. So when we arrived at our hotel, we weren’t that bothered that it was a little basic, it had a hot shower, air conditioning and most importantly a bed! I have never had a shower as good as that! A quick power nap and we met up with Long for lunch at a local restaurant, I had Chic...

A private mini bus drove us 4 hours out of Phnom Pehn to Chambok, a small rural village community. The village is consists solely sustenance farmers, who after the war were cutting down vast areas of woodland to sell charcoal to the cities. Inevitable they ran out of trees and turned to eco tourism as a livelihood. The villagers appear very poor living in stilted shacks with very basic amenities, but you get a real sense of pride, from what they have achieved. ...

As there are no passenger trains in Cambodia, we took a public bus out of Ho Chi Mihn City across the Vietnamese/Cambodian border to Phnom Penh.Strangely enough Kasser & Johanna were also on our bus too.The border was interesting, lengthy un organised ques, if you were prepared and brave enough to bung the officials some cash you get through first, if not wait your turn or in real time about an hour and a half! We arrived in Phnom Penh late afternoon, the ho...

You may have noticed that I have been pretty crap at keeping my blog up to date, so although I am writing about Ho Chi in Vietnam I’m actually sitting in a hotel room On Ko Phangan in Thailand. The weather is so hot today that I have decided that ‘outside’ is no place for a skinny white boy to be! So I have splashed out 600b on an air conditioned room where I am going to sit and get up to date with my blog. I have Chocolate Chip Cookies two litres of wate...

Well we had a fairly un eventful trip down to Nha Trang, arrived early evening, my first impression was that it was a really touristy town and I was right.Everything else was pretty run of the meal, food was quite expensive, the weather was too humid to do anything, the hotel was ok, aside from the building works which started at 5am!!! You can probably guess my response to that. Oh we did go out island hoping on a boat for the day, we had lunch on the boat vis...