25th October 2009 - 27th October 2009: Bangkok is literally a stop gap for us whilst we work out a way into Laos as we intend to come back here before we explore the rest of Thailand. We met some guys on our bus journey from Cambodia - Harry from England who was on a year out and Chris who was from New York currently working in a school in Bangkok. Chris was very helpful and gave us some really good pointers on the city - the best being an Indian restaurant ca...

23rd October 2009 - 25th October 2009: Surprisingly Lucky was waiting for us when we arrived holding up a piece of paper with Sean's name on it. He kindly drove us to out hostel but refused to charge us as we were only in the tuk tuk for 5 minutes and so we asked him if he would be our driver for the following day and take us out to see Angkor Wat. In the evening we decided to head down to 'pub street' as this looked like the best place to find restaurants on ...

21st October 2009 - 22nd October 2009: Our arrival in Phnom Penh was initially weird as it started with a bit of an obstacle course. The boat docked in front of this small house about 10 metres from the shore and we were then told to walk along a thin plank of wood, no wider than a foot, to get onto dry land - a challenge made all the more difficult given we had our large backpacks and rucksacks to carry!! Initially we thought that this would not bode well f...

20th October 2009 - 21st October 2009: We decided that we would do a bit of multi-tasking (Sean being a man struggled with this!!) by turning our boat trip to the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam into our transportation to Cambodia. We set off at 8am by bus with our tour guide whose name was Tom - but we could call him Tom Cruise. He explained to us that as long as we were happy he would be happy and that he would treat us like his own family which resu...

18th October 2009 - 20th October 2009: We got a sleeper train this time to Saigon which was a welcome change from the bus. We shared our compartment with an elderly Vietnamese couple and could not bare the thought of them climbing up to the top bunk so after a bit of charades and waving of hands we eventually managed to explain to them that we would like them to have the two bottom bunks and we would take the top bunks instead. We arrived in Saigon on Sunday at...