Sihanoukville to Siem Reap Night Bus Journey. This is a special edition of our blog, written by Liam. We wondered whether to wait and include this particular journey in a later blog, and then thought better of it. It all started so well; we were on the top deck of a night sleeper bus and right at the front where there appeared to be a little bit more room. Lovely. This optimism lasted all of two minutes after the bus broke down trying to pull away on top o...

Falling in love with Cambodia! Otres Beach, pure paradise! We've been in Sihanoukville for nearly a week now and ideally would stay here for another 3. I don't think we've ever been so relaxed! We first arrived on a lively backpackers beach called Serendipity and had booked for 3 nights, however after one night we knew it wasn't the place for a pair of old farts! It was a fun place if you wanted to get drunk, but all we wanted was a beach to lie on and nothing ...

The review guides say 'If you can afford it fly' and from our experience I'd say they were right. We left Hanoi on a rainy Valentine's Day desparately needing the sun back and had booked onto a ''hop on hop off bus''. Worst marketing ever as this is precisely what it was not. It was pretty much just all your tickets bought at once and although we were sold it as a ticket which allowed you to jump on a bus by booking 24 hours in advance this was actually at least...

What a difference an hour makes....its cold and crazy in Vietnam. After an easy hour flight and an even easier skip through the border (even though our visa wasnt valid for another 4 hours) we arrived in Hanoi. Thank god we opted out of the 30 hours sleeper bus. From the minute we stepped out of the airport we knew Vietnam was going to be a lot different to Laos, not only was it cold, it was hectic. Never before have I seen so many motorbikes on the road, and in...

Where do we start? Laos has been an up and down experience. It all began with a overnight mini bus to Vientiane, the capital. Not the most comfortable of journeys I must say but we managed to sleep and before we knew it we were crossing the border. Vientiane Vientiane doesnt look or feel anything like a capital. it's a sleepy little place full of french cafes and once you've done one that's pretty much it. It certainly puts the saying "don't expect anything to ...