Cambodia is such a lovely country but has such a grim history full of genocide. As we travelled through Cambodia we learnt more about what really happened and how it affected the Khmer people. In short, a educated man (who studied in France) known as Pol Pot took over and caused savage cruelty. Pol Pot is responsible for over three million Khmer deaths. Although this happened merely thirty years ago the people do not act as victims. On the contrary, Khmer...

After Pai myself and Owen decided to head to Vang Vieng in Laos. This journey took us 24 hours in total. Mainly it was incident free until we reached Laos. We had only rode down the street 300 metres by bus when we went flying into a parked car. The bus driver did not seemed to care and carried on as if nothing had happened. Everyone in the bus sort of looked at one another as if to say "did that just happen". And after spending a month in Laos we learnt th...

Lady-boys, tourists, rain, markets and more tourists equals Thailand. After spending two weeks in Borneo Owen and I flew out of Miri to reach our destination Phuket, Thailand. We arranged to meet our good friend Worm (Jermany Rankin) there and before we all new it we were hitting the bars down Bangla Road in Patong. Bangla road is pretty much where everyone goes at night to get tanked and steer at lady boys. Worm told us that if you were unsure if it was a gi...

After hearing amazing stories from other backpackers Owie and I decided to fly to Borneo. We arrived in Kuching to find a pleasant city located beside the Sarawak river. Kuching means cat in Malay so there were serveral statues of cats located around the city. We spent a a couple of days looking around Kuching and trying more local food. Owie eat frog legs which suprisingly tasted like chicken and I ordered a fish which is what I got. Literally I received a ...

After Singapore Owen and I decided to have a look around the mainland of Malaysia. We caught a bus from Singapore and went up the east coast to Mersing. From Mersing we caught a ferry to Tioman Island. Tioman Island is a beautiful place where you have to catch a boat taxi to get from town to town because there are no roads. We were impressed by the beauty of the fauna and flora on the island but the locals let us down. They were less then friendly to us and ...