Well, today is our last day in Cambodia. Only 3 days of the trip left!! We started off in Siem Reap, arriving there on Thurday afternoon. Immediately what hit us was the heat and humidity. As we were trying to find our way out of the airport a tuk tuk driver stopped us and took us into town. We agreed for him to drive us around Angkor Wat the following day That evening we were struck by how touristic Siem Reap is. There was a street opposite our hotel whic...

Today is our last day in Laos - and just 1 week left of our trip. Tomorrow we fly to Siem Reap in Cambodia We've had a brilliant time here. Luang Prabang is very well developed and the lack of noise has really helped us to relax before we head to Cambodia. We've felt like we haven't done very much over the last 4 or 5 days but we still seem to have fit a lot in! On Sunday we went on an elephant ride. Eco-tourism seems to be quite a big thing here and severa...

Just in case - as we've done two blogs in one day you may miss the link to the last Vietnam one. On our way to Hanoi airport we met Kim, a Canadian student who was on her way to New Zealand to study, who we befriended for the evening While at the airport I got a tap on the shoulder. A man in a suit says, "Excuse me, we need you to unlock your bag so it can go through security." I follow him back through immigration, where they keep my passport, to t...

First off I need to correct an error on the previous blog. Apparently Amanda only paid 15 pounds for her skirts, not 20 pounds as previously stated. This, it seems, makes the skirts a bargain as opposed to merely reasonable! We had a lovely few days in Hoi An before we left with tailor made suit and shirt in hand and got the bus to Hue, a four hour gauntlet of terrible driving and close shaves! Hue is the sight of the famous Tet Offensive during the Vietnam W...

Hi Since our last blog we've done quite a lot! We took a trip to the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam for a couple of days. I started with a visit to the floating markets on the river where people sell everything you can imagine. They then took us to a little village where they make all kinds of sweets from coconut. We watched them making sweets and something that looked like coconut rice cakes before they sat us down to a cup of tea and a glass of snake win...