"Hello, welcome to our hotel. We can arrange many things for your convenience, travel tickets, city tours, restaurant & laundry............also, please use our gun shooting service." We were given a hearty welcome by the manager at our Saigon hotel. SAIGON From our previous journies to and through Cambodia, we were not overly excited about the 8-10 hour bus trip over the Vietnam border to Saigon. This proved to be totally unfounded as, to our amazemen...

The journey to Vietnam through Cambodia was not as simple as we first thought................. TRAT We prepared to leave Ko Samet with, it seems, delusions of grandeur. The original plan was to quite simply just catch a bus directly to the capital of Cambodia, stay 1 night and then proceed directly to Saigon - what fools! On researching it became evident that the journey would end up taking 3-4 days in total, stopping at 3 different destinations en rout...

"LEECHES, LEECHES! Everybody check for leeches.....I've got one, it's hooked on good & I've not even been in the water! Abort the nature trail." Daniel Denton airs his concerns to his fellow trailers. NAN First impressions of Nan can be varied. There's not an awful lot to this town, but in a sense that's what makes it so alluring. Possibly for the first time in Thailand, we found ourselves in a region where the people are relatively still 'Thai' in thei...

"You're kidding me....I'm supposed to climb up it's leg!!!!????" PAI Our arrival in Pai was filled with excitement after a breathtaking 3 hour drive through the mountains. The village/town of Pai is a small, but well developed mountain settlement and one of the main centres of the north, for trekking, rafting and all manner of other extreme sports. We decided for the duration of our stay we would become hard core action travellers & fully immerse ourselves...

Hello from Thailand, we love you long time. BANGKOK We arrived in Bangkok, like two eager and excited travellers, raring to get back on the road and into the full swing of the back-packing lark. Strangely though, upon arrival at our guest house it appeared we were in a scene more reminiscent of Magaluf and our hopes of re-visiting our 'simple' life were quickly diminished. The famous travellers Mecca of Khoa San Road was a 24hour party street complete with...