Well it is now our last day in Siem Reap, we arrived here 3 days ago from Phnom Penh, an arduos 4 hour bus ride. We have visited the famous Angkor Wat temples and numerous other ones too. We hired a tuk-tuk and driver for 2 days for the mere sum of about $5. Cheap as chips! We found out the hard way that sometimes the Lonely Planet does actually provide you with sound advice ... So when it said 'avoid visiting Angkor Wat at noon, in the heat of th...

Scary scary day, not from any sort of scary adventure, but because we visited the killing fields of Choeng Uk. During the reign of Pol Pot, a mass of people were murdered here. Anyone who had any sort of education was killed. Pol Pot rounded up armies of small teenage boys to kill their families. You can still walk around the grave sites and find bones from the murders. It was a very scary and sad place and I am so pleased that his reign is over and th...

After leaving the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh behind us, we decide to do a two-day raft/boat/tuk-tuk tour to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This gets off to a great start as we drive to the border town and get into a row boat. The row boats, of course, are steered by women, they seem to do all the hard work in this culture. We paddle up the river and through floating villages. It is an experience to witness fish bones being dried out in the sun...

The hustle and bustle of main cities is back to haunt us. We have spent some time in the mountain city of Dalat, we did a jeep tour around the area. It is truly an amazing place, filled with lakes and waterfalls and very lovely landscape. We visit a place called Chicken village, a small mountain village, no-one hear speaks English. One women shows us around, and through one of the houses, it's a house with a dirt floor and the entire family live here, mos...

HOI AN! Place of 200 tailors, magnificent! I am LOVING it here! We've travelled on overnight buses for the last two nights, stopping very briefly in Hue, nothing to speak of there, and we had a day on the beach in .... The first overnight bus trip left us so tired we went to sleep at 4pm and didn't wake up until 7 am the next day!!! And here we are, Hoi An. We have been here for the last 4 days, it is now time to go get our tailor made wares and ...