Well, after a bit of a break, we have made it across the skies to Hongkong. I know there's a big gap and missing a country or two on here but one has to keep some stories to tell on return! Arriving in Hongkong, back very much into the modernised world, was a bit of a shock. Riding comfortable transport staring up at the huge sky scrapers. Inadvertently we ended up staying in Chung King Mansions, probably the most famous of the backpacker haunts in Kowloon (on t...

Now for the second time of writing this blog today - the first attempt failed just as I was completing the antepenultimate paragraph by means of computer crashing. Needless to say I refused to pay for the privelage. Now in a comfier chair in a cheaper internet cafe I now start again:That is, the road to Hanoi... One week, one bus and four stops:Mui NeI find it hard to call this a town really. More of a smattering of buildings along a couple of kilometers of one c...

Vietnam. The fifth country. We have now breached the half-way mark. The hair is getting longer, the toothpaste is now called 'close-up', the shower gel 'fa' and even my old GCSE school bag has now retired! But the feet keep walking and the wheels turning. Our entrance into Vietnam wasn't one of the most easiest of journeys and not, for once, due to the border control. We had decided to take the route down the Mekong river to the border. It was all going well unt...

Now back on track: Phenom Penh Part 1: The most famous places had to be visited first. That is, S-21 aka the former prison (a converted high school) for the Khmer Rouge where they tortured out confessions from the innocent. The confessions taken from people were not just one from each to warrant their execution but hundreds of pages were written down for many. They would then be taken to the killing fields, which we visited shortly after, outside of town where th...

Now this entry may not be chronologically nor entirely geographically correct but Kampot is where I am choosing as the location. On our way here we stopped at Phenom Penh for a few days but seeming as we have now returned I will amalgamate these later.So starting not in Kampot but Sihanoukville on the South coast. With a vague attempt at trying to get some more beach time but then every day we were there it was raining pretty much all day so we eventually gave up...