Sat Feb 2 First thing in the morning we hired bicycles and we were taken to the local orphanage, where we each bought some biscuits & toiletries as presents for the children. We went into their classroom and played toys with them for about 15 mins (they had a lot of toys!) and they were really happy to see us - they all lookedn really young (i thought they were 6 or 7 yrs old) but some of them were 14 - 14 yrs old, which surprised me a lot. This wasn't too...

Day 4 of our intrepid tour through Vietnam and Cambodia. We took the overnight train from Hanoi to Hue (about 12 hrs long!) which left Hanoi at about 11.00. we had small little cqabin between 4 of us - so it was pretty cramped and lots of various smells. Our leader brought on nthe train some rice wine to "help us sleep better" and to be fair was pretty effective. Pierre had a bad dose of Delhi Belly so he didn't have a very good night - he was constantl...

Day 1 Arrived in Bangkok at about 5.00pm on thurs local time after an 11 hour plane journey from Heathrow with Quantas - wasn't too bad, there was lots of on flight entertaonment. Straight away we were struck by the humidity. We got a taxi to our hotel (Samran Place) for 500 baht - which is about 3 quid. Our hotel was in what we called a slum area which you might be able to tell by the pics.. We had a wonder aroind siam Square to see what it had to offer. We w...