Had a lovely time in Luang Prabang, it's so relaxed there it's virtually horizontal!! It's a really pretty city with a lovely night market that they set up in the street. The visit to the waterfall was excellent and also did a slow boat trip down the Mekong River...visiting the caves and a Mekong Whisky Village (pretty harsh trying that stuff at 11am...but when in Rome!!) 3rd OctoberArrived in Vang Vieng from Luang Prabang on 2nd October and shared a ...

Hi from Laos! Arrived this morning (29th Sept) from Siem Reap, it is absolutely beautiful and loving every second! Landed this afternoon after an early start from Siem Reap and a slightly ropey flight on Lao Airways via Vientiene. A number of people I've travelled with over the past few weeks have raved about Luang Prebang and on first impressions it certainly doesn't disapoint! I am staying at a small family run guest house very near the Mekong River (fe...

Arrived in Siem Reap yesterday (26th Sept) and checked in to our guesthouse...a great place near the Old Market. We went for the $1 a night option...a raised wooden dorm room that is like a treehouse with big mosi nets and bamboo divides, it's brilliant...'Lord of the Flies Chic'!! Siem Reap has a very different feel to Pnom Penh, with new hotels catering for the tourist market springing up left, right and center. It feels wrong to have so many large,...

22 Sept 2006 Jumped on the bus from Saigon...and met Marielle and Meg (two american girls who Ryan and I met whilst hanging out at the 5am noodle restaurant in Nah Trang!) on board which was great. After an easy boarder crossing we arrived in Pnom Penh around 7pm (the touts were already knocking on the bus windows as it pulled in!) We all jumped in a tuc tuc and headed to the Lakeside Guesthouse on Boeng Kak Lake. A really great friendly paid back place with a se...

18 Sept 2006 After a very long bus journey south past some beautiful scenery and up and down some fairly precarious winding roads, Gemma and I arrived in Dalat late afternoon and checked in to the Paradise Hotel (a seriously ironic name!), grabbed some food near the market and booked up an easy rider tour of Dalat (the easy riders are fatastic vietnamese tour guides who had been recommended to us by loads of travellers) and the surrounding highlands for the follo...