Slight Scare at the Cambodian Border, 4 of us had visas issued in the UK which didnt "look" quite the same as the others. Having said this they were the nicest immigration people ever, even brought fans outside to cool us down and teaching us some Cambodian whilst they took photocopies of our visas. Anyway we eventually get on another boat into Cambodia, which I can only describe as metal yellow banana! probably a cool tour boat in 1960 but when its 38...

I know its been a while since our last update and we must apologise, due mainly because we have been enjoying ourselves but also because our laptop is in a coma, so we are relying on local internet cafes and hotel connections, which are not the best. So we left Hanoi and Ha long bay behind and took the 14 hr overnight train to Hue.  We booked this ourselves at Hanoi train station and between trying to explain what he wanted, 4 people trying to push in and lis...

I'm slowly getting more up to date with letting you know what we have been up to, but will keep it reasobably short and sweet as 1 I don't want to bore you and 2 I'm really hungry! We arrived in Hanoi and got picked up by our hotel with a board saying 'Ricardo' which was nice - so far we have also had Mr Richard a few times! It was a 35KM trip to the city so we sat back and enjoyed the views.  It was really quite bizarre as the roads into the city were build...

Sorry for the lateness in getting another blog up - but we have not been able to get access quick enough to be able to use the laptop to up date the site.  I am going to attempt to fill you in on everything we have been up to, but I think at the same time will trynot to bore you! After having a great time in Chiang Mai we jumped on a Loas airways plane to Luang Prabang in Loas.  Jo was some what worried about the plane - as she had made the mistake o...

After already enjoying our first few days at the Banri Lanna, we decided to take advantage of the free bike service offered by the resort. We headed for the Motfu waterfall which was 10 KM away. It was a great route which went through a number of small villages, we didn't realise that we would get soaked by water though - as it is Thai New Year they have a tradition of waiting on passers by and then chucking loads of buckets over them. When you are on a bike ...