Up to catch the mini-van across the border to Penang, Malaysia. John refused to hand over our passports to the driver so he got the pip with us. Eventually the whole van load of us filled their details out on the driver's sheet. The driver managed to over pack the bus, just pushed a guy and shut the door on us. The gap was apparently on the 3 seats that John, Cheyenne and I were sharing. They squished another passenger in somewhere else. We eventually made it acr...

Flew to Hat Yai. This is surely a town that felt like a lone shark cowboy town. We saw 2 other ex-pats in our 4 hour journey up town. It felt like a town that was from the mid-70's, not quite dusty but rather antiquated. We went for a walk up town. Walked and walked and walked trying to find the Diana Mall so we could have some dinner (of course) and catch a movie. Eventually we asked for directions and caught a taxi truck to get us to our destination. By now du...

Went out for a late dinner last night. Caught a tuk tuk to the 'best' seafood restaurant in Bangkok. It was a shocker. Got back into the tuk tuk and asked the driver to find 'best' place for westerners. Ended up at a great Sushi place and everyone had a ball. Tummies full so Hekas were happy. Spent 4 nights in Bangkok in total. Spent our days walking, tuk tukking, catching the boat up the river to the big Mall (10 baht, 40c each). The hotel was 4 stars. There we...

Wow! What a day. Up in time for a quick breakfast (of course) and then in a tuk tuk to meet the bus. Finally made it to the border where the little man told us we wouldn't make it to the train because immigration queue was too long. Cost $6USD for the trip from Siem Reap up to the border, would have cost $10USD all the way to Bangkok (About 10 hours) but he wanted $10USDx3 from the border to Bangkok. Oh well, just pay the man and move on. We don't want to get stu...

Cheyenne's turn to wake us up an hour early at 3.55am instead of 4.55am! Good stuff! Up again at 5am and off in a tuk tuk to see the sun rise at Angkor Wat. A huge line of tuk tuks ahead of us in the dark with their wee lights on. Thousands of asian tourists too. So several thousand people waiting to watch the sunrise and get blessings from the first sunrays across the water. Once they all saw the rays they began to leave but the sunrise that was to come once the...