My impression of Hong Kong - busy, built up and expensive……. We landed at 10h30pm, took over 1one and a half hours to exit the massive airport and then caught the most expensive cab ride of our lives to the smallest hotel room of our lives. Our "room" (read broom closet) was on the 15th floor of a high rise building and if you don't believe the broom closet quip, check out these dimensions - 2.5m x 2m. (See the pics to believe it). The mattress of our ...

Jo and I were up pretty early and after a rushed breakfast, we boarded what was to be our final bus trip, to Phnom Penh - the capital of Cambodia. After a five and a half hour journey (probably our best bus trip to date), we arrived in Phnom Penh, dumped our backpacks at our guesthouse - the Mad Monkey - and went off to see S21. For those of you who don't know your Cambodian history - Security Prison 21, or 'S21' is the prison where victims of Pol Pot's Khmer R...

As I am typing this we are sitting right on the beachfront, having just watched a stunning sunset and listening to the waves lapping on the beach whilst sipping our Mojito's. Absolute bliss. One of those perfect summer evenings… This is a far cry from our experiences when we arrived here 3 days ago via overnight bus from Siem Reap. Cambodia's only has one night bus company, which is supposedly VIP and luxury, but makes Vietnam's night buses seem like luxury ...

Scambodia! We arrived in Siem Reap via a very "not so" tourist bus. The guy who was supposed to pick us up from our hostel to take us to the bus station was 20 minutes late and the bus he took us to was DEFINITELY NOT a tourist bus. After much deliberation and hand gesturing with the bus driver, we boarded the bus, only to be met by a sea of curious Cambodians faces. I think that the fact that we were along for the ride surprised these locals just as much as i...

Definitely one of the highlights of my travels in Vietnam. Jo and I were part of a tour group that took in the floating markets, fishing villages, fish farms and boat trips over a 3 day/2 night period - very interesting and informative. There were a couple of young Aussies and Swedes with us and they certainly added to the experience as well. There's nothing like the sight of an Aussie lying on the floor of a boat at 10 in the morning whilst nursing a hangover -...