From Siem Reap we took a 6 hour bus ride to the capital city Phnom Penh. I have learnt from this trip that capital cities are not for me. I dont like London for starters but at least i speak the language. Out here they are twice as dirty, twice as hot and twice as mental. I wont talk much about Phnom Penh except we went to the Genocide Museum and the killing Fields. For those that dont know, Cambodia was ruled for several years by a revolutionary party called the...

We'd heard hideous tales of the border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia at a place called Poipet. Tales of scams aplenty and disfigured beggers. luckily the trip was fairly painless with just a few agressive chaps on the cambodian side who were trying to steal us from our taxi-man. "im from the government" one chap said "and if you want happy holiday don't go with him, he try and sell you animal". Turns out that all scammers are "fr...

So here we are at the beginning of our trip. Our first stop Bangkok. Intense to say the least; hot, busy, polluted, crazy people, cosmopolitan. We took the air conditioned sky train on our first day to the centre, Siam, immediately started sweating as soon as we got off. We were befriended by a Thai lady who wanted to practice her English, suggesting we get a tuk tuk to the river and a boat trip to see temples, sights etc. "sounds good our first tuk tuk ride...