9th - 13th July 2009 We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City in the early afternoon and as with most large groups (nine people including Charlie and Izzie now) there was a bit of stress finding somewhere to stay that everyone liked.After that I needed a bit of Sam time and decided to go for a walk to find Nikki a bottle of alcohol for her birthday and found some Malibu as she likes coconut. With that out of the way I bought a Saigon Beer and sat by a really busy ro...

6th - 9th July 2009 We'd arranged to stay at the sister guesthouse of the hostel we'd stayed at in Siam Reap so it was nice to get off the bus and have a tuk tuk waiting to take us there especially after Kate saw our backpacks nearly get stolen out of the bus. When we arrived at the hostel it left a lot to be desired so we headed next door and had some dinner and watched the Lion King with the kids from that hostel. The kids bored of it after a while but Nikk...

1st - 5th July 2009 The bus ride to Siam Reap was one of the worst we've had. It was so overcrowded that a local man had to stand up for the last three hours of the trip bent over in a minivan. He called himself 50 cent and turned out to be so rude to everyone that didn't buy tours through him that a group of about eight of us moved to another guesthouse to get away after a few days. When we first arrived at 1am at the hostel (Nice Place 2) one of the first q...

27th - 30th June 2009 First we stopped at Dong Khong and found there wasn't much around so Matt and I rented some ridiculously clapped out scooters and rode them around the island like we had stole them. We rode down single tracks jumped them and dodged water buffalo and chickens then headed back to drink some beer but on the way I ran out of petrol. We made a hook out of a branch and Matt towed me back to town. That was the first time I have ever ran out of p...

24th - 26th June 2009 We took the 12 hour night bus from Vientiane to Pakse, our first night bus with actual beds. We had to share a bunk about the size of a king single but not as long. It was a lot better than any of the other seated buses we had caught even if it was a little cramped. After settling into our hostel we went for a walk around the town. We went to a market which sold just about every useless thing under the sky. We were about 2km away from o...