Spent about 3 days looking round Phnom Penh in the sun (over 32degrees). We saw the killing fields and genocide museum which were really sobering. Very scary to think only 30years ago people were capable of such things (and that some of them may actually still be alive here) We tried to go round the royal palace but they wouldn't let us in wearing a sarong over our shoulders and neck (despite the fact we had more covered than some people in their t-shirts) There ...

We left northern Laos a few days ago and headed to South to the edge of the Mekong and a place called four thousands islands. We spent a couple of days on a tropical island (complete with palm trees and wooden huts on stilts). It was really pretty and chilled out reading in our hammocks watching the sunset over the Mekong. We spent one our days cycling rund another island, inlcuding along the bumpiest 'road' ever on bikes with no suspension in the midday sun - fu...