Blog : Bangkok times two We arrived to Bangkok central train station at about 7:30am - a good hour and a half later than we were supposed to and proof that even timetabled trains across south east Asia cannot run punctually!! The actual train wasn't that bad. It was a carriage of fold down bunk beds essentially, with the girls on the bottom (their tickets cost a little extra) and me on the top, my bed was narrower and had no bar or anything to keep you in!! The ...

Blog : Vang Vieng We were up at the crack of dawn in our posh hotel room in Phnom Penh to get ready and catch our absolute mammoth bus up to Vientiane. There had only been one company we could book our travel with and it had cost a small fortune so I was feeling in a pretty begrudging mood as we climbed into our tuktuk at like 7am or something silly. We boarded the first coach which was due to take us to the Cambodian-Laos boarder and take four hours... Almost n...

Blog : Vang Vieng We were up at the crack of dawn in our posh hotel room in Phnom Penh to get ready and catch our absolute mammoth bus up to Vientiane. There had only been one company we could book our travel with and it had cost a small fortune so I was feeling in a pretty begrudging mood as we climbed into our tuktuk at like 7am or something silly. We boarded the first coach which was due to take us to the Cambodian-Laos boarder and take four hours... Almost n...

Blog : Phnom Penh again(!) After yet another horrific night bus, without sleeper seats or the toilet that we paid extra for and with the customary loud music playing all the way through the night, we all arrived rather grumpy and ruffled to Phnom Penh. We didn't have anywhere booked to stay so started looking through the lonely planet and found a couple of places we liked the sound of and we got a tuktuk driver to take us there after some fierce negotiating on t...

Blog : Siem Reap Annoyingly we had to catch a bus from Koh Kong, back past Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh (again!) before changing buses and travelling to Siem Reap as there are only a few main roads in Cambodia and the west coast is not accessibly linked between north and south. It was a long trip, setting off from Koh Kong at 1pm after our jungle trek antics and not arriving to Phnom Penh until about six hours later and then we had a two hour wait, which we decid...