From Vietnam, we crossed into Cambodia. What a welcome change. The people have nothing there, but they could not have been nicer. We spent some crazy days buzzing around the capital on mopeds - v.dangerous but great fun. We saw the impressive Ankor Wat temples which were quite something, including the one featured in Tomb Raider. Although we saw some great stuff, we also went to an old torture prison used by the Khamer Rouge and saw the killing fields where mil...

Just when we thought the driving couldn't get any worse in Asia - we arrive in Vietnam where the roads are like wacky races and everyone has horn tourettes. Vietnam is honestly the first country that I've been to that has disappointed me. The people are generally rude and treat all foreigners like walking ATMs. I got into several arguments with taxi drivers, hotel managers and street vendors becasue, no, we don't want a ride, a day trip or a bloody banana! Desp...

We have spent just over a week in Laos. It is a gorgeous country - really underdeveloped and not too tainted by tourism...yet. It is really charming, with little shanty villages and people wearing pointy hats walking buffalo down the roads! At our first stop, there was a lady holding a monkey on a string and then the owner of our geusthouse came to check that our room was ok, and to try to sell us some cannabis - welcome to Laos, where anything goes. We also su...

We finished our time in Thailand with a 3 day jungle trek in Northern Thailand. I vow this is the final bit of exertion on this trip - and I have thrown away my trekking shoes just to make sure... The group was good, even managed to tolerate the stupid "so you live in the countryside - so do you work on a farm?" Americans by the end of it. I was quite pleased that the trek wasn't too arduous. However, as we decided to come to Asia in rainy season, it...

We began Thailand with two islands - first Koh Pi Pi then Koh Phang Nagn. On the second island, we had a beach hut which was just a few metres away from the sea which was pretty nice. So we got a bit of sunbathing in before hitting the bright lights of Bangkok. Now I expected to hate it in Bangkok (we all know that I have the occasional snobbish tendancy), however, I love it. It's mad. When we arrived, we got straight into a tuk tuk laden with our backpacks - ou...