Thursday night in Nha Trang, we took it pretty easy because we were both a bit low energy. We decided to splurge a bit and went to an Italian restaurant for dinner to have something other than rice. And really, both meals still added up to less than $10. It's funny how quickly you adapt to the cost of things here and think paying $5 for a huge meal is a lot. Also, the exchange rate can really fuel this - when walking home, we were looking to buy a bottle of...

Our mini stay in Phnom Penh is pretty much just a blur. Our bus was a bit late so we arrived in the evening and picked a cheap hostel in the center of the city. Focused on making our way along through the big cities, we decided to book our bus to cross the border into Vietnam for the next morning. We walked around a bit before having dinner at the restaurant in the lobby of our hostel. There was a huge temple at the end of our road and we happened to walk b...

We left Battambang Saturday morning on a $5 bus bound for Siem Reap - we were the only travelers on a bus full of locals. We arrived in Siem Reap in just over 3 hours and took a tuk-tuk to the Lotus Lodge, a spot we had pre-booked on the internet. Our driver, Sok Pen, was a really nice guy was really smart too. He talked us into a tour of the temples in his tuk tuk, starting at sunrise the next morning. We wanted to rent bikes to see the area, but decided t...

Mark and I had one last chill day in Krabi - mostly centered around eating and sleeping. The night market in Krabi was good fun and gave us a chance for some more amazing and super-cheap Thai food. It was entirely a food market - lots of the typical food we've been enjoying, as well as a ton of fun desserts. This adorable older Thai couple had a little food stall and made tiny tasty pancakes. They were so cute and obviously had been making these desserts fo...

A week in Koh Jum with Aunt MJ and Uncle Randy was just what we needed after our 3 exhausting days of travel to get there. We all quickly settled into a nice routine: get up and head down to breakfast around 8am (usually pinapple pancakes, mushroom omelettes and banana shakes), spend the morning between our bungalow's veranda, the beach or the little shaded beach huts under the big tree. For lunch, we'd either wander up to the restaurant at Ting Rai, or we'd ...