Hello, it has been felt that I haven't been pulling my weight in writing up the blogs so I (Trish) am writing this one. We left Hong Kong and got a ferry to Schezen. This is where we entered mainland China and had one of our smoothest border crossings. We flew to Guilin, got the bus into town and stayed in a nice hotel. The next day we found the foreigner street, ie coffee shops and signs we could recognise and also very cheap internet. We spent a lot of the day...

Hong Kong is our first steps away from South East Asi and into China. However, this is the most western city we've been to since Australia. With all the added comforts that these western standards bring, there is the added expense which we've found takes a while to get use to but it's something we've had to do and we've really enjoyed this city, easily one of our favourite cities to date. We've been keeping ourselves busy running around the city. We arrived a...

Two nights in Bangkok were plenty for us. We wandered around the Khao San on the first evening but after our long bus journey from Siem Reap neither of us were in a mood to do anything so an early evening was had. Next morning we were up and out touring the emerald buddah temple, grand palace, etc. The heat was extreme, definitely well over 30 degrees, so after seeing the sights a nice air conditioned bar was required where we cooled down. That evening was sp...

According to Lonely Planet (our trusty guidebook) "Siem Reap is the gateway to Cambodia's spiritual and cultural heartbeat, the temples of Angkor" and this is exactly the reason we came to Cambodia. The temples of Angkor were the capital of Cambodia during the ancient Khmer empire which ruled our most of present day Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. We arrived into Siem Reap, got a nice and cheap guesthouse and booked our tuk tuk for our 3 days ar...

And so we have arrived into another Asian country, our 7th so far. Cambodia is by far the poorest we have yet visited. The bus journey from Saigon was without great incident. Coming up to the border the bus drivers assistant tried to charge us US$25 for the Cambodian visa but we knew in advance that it only cost US$20 so we said that we would do it ourselves which he didn't feel happy. Stating that the bus would only wait 20 minutes for us he left us to it. ...