Second chance at sunrise Our last day in Siem Reap and we were up at 4.30am again in the hope that this time we would catch a good sunrise.We cycled as fast as possible (legs burning from 2 days exercise after months of none) and as we rode past the lake the sun was starting to rise giving a beautiful view to our journey.We made it to Angkor Wat just in time for a pink cloud backdrop to the iconic temple with its reflection in the water.We took in the view for a...

On yer bike With two days left on our pass we had decided to have our eggs and baguette early (4.30am) and cycle to the temples for sunrise (we would look around the temples saving Angkor Wat for the last day). There were several other people up with the same plan - a Canadian with his girlfriend and an English girl whose friend was in bed sick so we decided to stick together to get there on our rickety bikes (again no street lighting!). This, however made for a...

"When you come back, you buy from me….OK ?!" Siem Reap (which has to be said in the drawl accent of the man we met on the bus in Laos) was a place we were really looking forward to for the obvious highlight of Angkor Wat. The bus we had taken from Laos took its time with the usual drawn out stops and changeovers (especially at the border with Cambodia where dollars were added on for everything including having your temperature taken) so by the time ...

4000 Islands - well, we stayed on one One major highlight for Liz and I about travelling south in Laos was the prospect of a "sleeper bus" to take us through the night down to the river crossing to Don Det. Once we had finally been picked up by the bus in Vang Vieng (after it drove passed us about 3 times!) we headed to Vientiene where we would have about 2 hours to kill.We weren't too fussed about missing this out as it struck us as just another ...

Vang Vieng - a Pleasant Surprise! As a group we hadn't been particularly sure that Vang Vieng was for us - the main focus for most others going there was to go tubing down the Mekong and generally party - this all sounds OK but it's often described as an Asian Magaluf.It was much to our surprise that we found a whole brick house that we could rent for the four of us overlooking the river and spectacular mountains run by a very chilled Norwegian.We enjoyed some...