Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon, Vietnam (24th Nov 2007) Our first few days in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) was just a little hot! 37 degrees...lovely! We arrived into HCMC at around dinner time and the closer we got to the city the more fun, or scary, depending on how you look at it, the driving became; the journey through town was a little hairy as there aren't any traffic lights but thousands of motorbikes driving along where they please and there appears to by absolu...

Chau Doc, Vietnam (23rd Nov 2007) We left our hotel earlier then the trip usually plans as the annual Water Festival was taking place in Phmon Penh and there was no way we would be able to make it in time to catch our speed boat if we didn't allow for traffic, as over the weekend the population gets an extra 2 to 3 million people pouring in for the festivities, which unluckily for us, we miss. After fighting our way through all of the festival traffic we final...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (21st Nov 2007) We touched down in Phnom Penh at about 5 in the afternoon and although where we were staying was only a few miles from the airport it took us over an hour to crawl through the city to our surprisingly nice hotel, which has its own casino and restaurant built on the bottom two floors. The street where our hotel was is on the riverfront and is a beautiful wide boulevard, like many of the street and is made up from fine colon...

Siem Reap / Angkor Wat, Cambodia (18th Nov 2007) We woke up late after probably too many beers the night before and managed to just cram our stuff in our backpacks and be down to meet the group in time to get started on the long journey ahead. Unlike in India we had some really nice mini buses that comfortably seated us all with plenty of room and most of us had two seats. The drive was due to take us 8 or 9 hours depending on the traffic and in the end probab...

Bangkok, Thailand (13th Nov 2007) After hearing many a horror story about Bangkok and its scams we were a bit sceptical even getting help in the airport as we first touched down, but after deliberating on whether to take a taxi direct to our hostel or not we opted for the airport bus to save us some money and had a very pleasant journey on real roads in a spacious air conditioned bus (something we hadn't experienced for some time!) Arriving in Bangkok was like...