wow... i sure have been useless with this blog thing haven't i?! i don't think i've written since i even arrived in saigon so i will try and write as much as possible to fill you in! the computer just took over an hour to upload all my photos so that's my sorry excuse if it's not too detailed! I'm in Nha Trang at the moment, which is a gorgeous little beach town on the coast of Vietnam,. After leaving Phnom Penh we headed into Saigon. My visa had the wrong dat...

Hi everyone, sorry i haven't written about the last weeks travel yet as the tour has been great and there's been heaps to do (even if that does include lazing on the beach at Sihanoukville!) I've been savouring hanging out with the group as tomorrow we cross the border into Saigon and i begin travelling on my own- which will probably mean i'll be on the internet more frequently- or at least enough to keep up with the blog entries! Briefly, after Siem Reap we he...

Today we headed to the floating markets just outside siem reap in Tonle Sap Lake. The lake is over 12,000 kms wide in high rain season therefore all the houses along the banks are built very very high on stilts, or are designed to float on the lake. The lake was so large it continued well out to the horizon you couldn't see land on either side. The water flows from the Mekong River heading from China down through Laos and Cambodia into Vietnam where it enters the...

Hi everyone, The trip so far has been great. The flight to Bangkok from Brisbane was delayed by about 2 hours, so didn't physically get onto the plane until about 2am however, the plane had those little tv's in the back of the seats so that made up for it! The hotel we stayed at in Bangkok was about 200m from Khao San Road so spent most of the day there. Met with the girl who i am rooming with on the intrepid trip and another girl who was doing a different int...