Arrived safely in Koh Tao 6 days ago after a bus and boat transit from Bangkok which went smoothly. We were picked up at the pier by Buddha View Dive Resort Reps and whisked to Chalok Baan Kao to begin the briefing for our Padi Dive Course. The Open Water course took 4 days to complete and involved some classroom (back to school) sessions, pool sessions and 5 open water dives! It was great. We both thoroughly enjoyed it and we were with a great group of people an...

Travelled by bus to Siem Reap to visit the infamous Angkor Wat – a trip we were really looking forward to. We were amazed at the sheer scale of Angkor Wat and the number of temples surrounding it – it is huge and the guide books do not do it justice. We certainly weren’t disappointed and enjoyed our two days of touring this vast empire. Our first day consisted of visiting Angkor Wat and the Bayon Temple – two huge temples, Angkor Wat is th...

Arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday 4th December from Saigon after a 6 hour bus journey. Border crossing was no hassle except for our bus driver trying to extort $10 out of us for sorting our visas out. We wised up to this after talking to fellow travelers and Jay asked for our money back and we sorted them out ourselves. Phnom Penh was a lot more developed than we had anticipated. However we only stopped there to visit S21 prison and the Killing Fields, wh...

Saigon – as crazy as Hanoi with the traffic but somewhat more developed and nicer we think. Visited the war cemetery which was really interesting and probably one of the best tourist attractions we have visited for moneys worth! Not the usual photo clicking opportunities more time to think and reflect the atrocities that occurred during the Vietnam War. Also went on a day trip to see the CuChi tunnels – which the Vietcong communist soldiers built to h...

We walked out of the gate of our bungalow in Muine to be greeted by a guy with a motorbike waiting to hire it to us – talk about good service!! Using a map one of the local ex pats drew for us which included the sites, red and white sand dunes, red canyon and fairy stream, we set off on the bike for our day of exploring. After a 30 minute ride we rounded a bend in the round and were greeted by children with sheets of plastic on their shoulders frantically p...