SaigonHey there, Well as you all know we crossed over into Vietnam on Monday, after another smooth boarder cross we started out Vietnam adventure in Siagon. I was not feeling my perkiest when we arrived and wasn't aware that we would be arriving smack bang in the middle of a city. It reminded me of Blackpool, with all its bright flashing neon lights (pure tack), yes tack it maybe but you cannot knock the sign that said one litre of beer for 3500 Dong (9 pence). O...

We took the small hour journey over to the next Island south of Don Khong with Sam and Claire, it's a much smaller island but has a really good waterfall on it, so we decided to stop there for 2 nights before crossing the border. After much traipsing about looking for a hut we found one right on the Mekong (seriously you cant get away from this river) the owner gave us our very own 'vip' section away room the other guests and we had our very own hammo...

We had to pay a visit to Ankor Wat, it's a MUST for coming to Siem reap, we arrived by 10 hour bus journey, which wasn't too back compared to others, we found a room and organised a driver for the day.We decided to take a day relaxing as we were psyching ourselves up for a long day - sunrise to sunset, us being Minge bags and trying to do what normally takes 3 days and squeezing it into just one! Yeah but we saved 40$ that's what you call thrifty, thrifty but ver...

We just arrived in Kratie, after totally dreading the border cross because of our experience from Laos, but this time we were prepared, we had our visa, the right money and we were crossing on a weekday, weekends give the customs the power to name any price they want from you!We also booked a tour type thing from Don Det, this way we paid one price and the guy stayed with us all the way until we were in Cambodia! After quite a late night on the whiskey we got up ...

We took the small hour journey over to the next Island south of Don Khong with Sam and Claire, it's a much smaller island but has a really good waterfall on it, so we decided to stop there for 2 nights before crossing the border. After much traipsing about looking for a hut we found one right on the Mekong (seriously you cant get away from this river) the owner gave us our very own 'vip' section away room the other guests and we had our very own hammocks.We were ...