Just a quick update, see photo!!! We had lunch and enjoyed traditional Khmer food at the G Adventure New Hope Project (helping underprivileged local families and training in restaurant/hospitality careers) which consisted of fried crickets for starters and surprise surprise Ga ate three of them, I managed a few more that tasted of just fried crunchy stuff ? Not bad but not good either we had seen fried spiders (big b*****s), frogs, maggots and other disgusting de...

Spent Friday 10th flying to Bangkok for the start of our tour. Saturday explored some of the cities rivers and canals by long boat, then another temple and after some of us went to the Grand Place, which because the King had died and was lying in state for his citizens to visit (until December this year) some parts were closed, shame because it's a beautiful place. Overnight train to Chiangmai, it was spotlessly clean and very well run I had the top bunk. Sunday1...

Oh well, we've nearly completed our weeks rest, this resort was almost destroyed by the Tsunami 26/12/2004 there's a large police boat washed up 2kms from the beach left as a memorial (see photos) had a great day snorkelling and visiting Islands. Today Wednesday 6th March, was not a good day for Ga, she opened her wardrobe and screamed saying there was a mouse swinging on her clothes so I had to evict this poor little creature which turned out to be a squirrel wh...