Well hello everyone, and welcome to my last blog of Asia. I have quite a lot to tell you about the last week and a half so sit tight, and here we go... I left you exhausted at the end of my Indochina Loop tour, and I woke up on Wednesday morning with surprisingly little hangover, despite having been more than a bit drunk the night before. I thoroughly enjoyed not having to be out of bed until 12 (check out time), when Katherine and I jumped in a taxi and sped ac...

I warn you that this will probably be quite a long blog as I am very passionate about Cambodia. It has had a heartbreaking history but it is such a wonderful country. On Day 23 we were up bright and early for the bus to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. It was a public bus over the border, but the tickets were booked so we were guaranteed seats. We settled down for a five or six hour journey, and the first part of the trip went entirely according to plan. We ...

On Day 18 it was yet another exhaustingly early start, and back on the bus over the Hai Van Pass into South Vietnam. The pass was so beautiful, with stunning views of the wide sweeping bays below. It was interesting to pass over the top, where several bunkers remained from the various wars Vietnam has been through, just a reminder of how recent they were. Then it was back down into the south, and past the picturesque beaches and looming abandoned aircraft hangar...

On Day 13 it was yet another early start as we boarded our (by now much hated) bus to Halong Bay. Halong Bay is on the North Vietnamese coast near China, and is, you've guessed it, a bay. The name, in case you were interested, means Bay of the Descending Dragon. It's based on an old Vietnamese myth. We had a boat all to ourselves with very comfortable cabins and a nice chillout area on top to sunbathe, and we sailed out into the warm blue water, past the floating...

Well hi there! I guess you must be wondering if I'm dead because I haven't written in so long, but actually I have just been really busy, and in a land of very slow unreliable internet. I now have a week in Bangkok so I have decided to save up my blog and get it done here. There should be a new post on here every day for the next five days now... So I left you in Luang Prabang at the end of Day 8.... On day 9 we got up fairly early to go and visit a cultural m...