Laos the land of never ending bus journeys On Boxing Day we decided to get the bus from Siem Reap to Pakse in Southern Laos. With minimal problems on the border (we were the only two on the bus who didn't hand our passport and $6 extra dollars each over to the bus boy and did the Visas ourselves) we arrived in Pakse after about 15 hours, so not to bad considering the distance we had covered. Shortly after arriving in Pakse came the frustrating realization that R...

We crossed the border independently at the Hat Lek - Cham Yeam crossing and encountered no problems. Our first night in Cambodia was in a small place called Koh Krong Kong ( a transit town).Through just having a wander through the town you realise how friendly the Cambodian people are, they all smile and say hello more often than not.Phnom Penh was our next destination where we spent 4 nights. We visited the S21 genocide museum which was quite harrowing and ...

We had plans to meet Sarah's parents in Pai, a small town in the north of Thailand not far from the Burmese border. So upon landing in Bangkok we flew straight to Chang Mai. The next day it was a 3 hour bus journey to Pai. (After just one day of travelling in Thailand we realised how easy things were compared with Nepal and India especially!) That afternoon, we headed to a nearby waterfall where we all went swimming in the pools. It was extremely cold, almo...

Having already spent a day and a night in India before we went to Nepal we knew what to expect. Constant hassle, whether about going into people's shops or getting tuk tuk's. We landed in Delhi and decided we were going to book some train.But this was not as simple as you would think. We had heard of a tourist booking office but this eluded us at New Delhi station due to being told it was being redecorated, we were shown ladders and paint pots in a corner of the...

First stop Nepal.We did a well known 3 day trek in the Annapurna Range in Western Nepal up Poon Hill (about 10,000ft). We were meant to see 18 mountain peaks from the top but unfortunately the weather was not all it was cracked up to be for the time of year (beautiful, clear not to hot and not too cold), so we saw nothing, just cloud and mist (I felt like I was just up a hill in Scotland!!).It was still an achievement to climb to nearly 10,000ft. We also did whi...