Our arrival in Cambodia was definitely the worst arrival anywhere of the whole trip, just as we'd expected. We flew to Bangkok and took the bus to Siem Reap, through the scammiest, but also most-used, border crossing. Lonely Planet had, helpfully, warned us of the scam that was to come, but had neglected to give any real information about how to avoid it. So we got herded onto a free shuttle bus from the Cambodian side of the border, which took us to a government...

After a very long day of travelling, which ended with us being dropped off an hour's walk away from our hotel in the pouring rain, we arrived in Koh Samui. The half-moon party was the following day on the next island along, Koh Pha Ngan, so we booked a pickup from our hotel. Although we were sitting outside reception for about an hour before the pickup time we somehow managed to miss it, but it didn't really seem to matter, since the boat didn't leave Koh Samui f...

Singapore was such a nice break from the chaos and hassle of the previous two months - after our not-so-nice arrival, it was such an easy five days! We took an overnight bus down from Kuala Lumpur, and got stuck waiting in the wrong queue with the slowest immigration officer ever while he asked us our names (while holding our passports), and where we were going (quite obviously Singapore, no?). We'd known we were going to get to the hostel really early in the mor...

This was our last stop in Malaysia, since our time there was constrained by Rosh Hashana, which we couldn't celebrate at all anywhere in such a Muslim country - we even found the contact details online of a Jewish guy who lives in Kuala Lumpur (seemingly the only one in the country, and that must have been why he was listed on the website!), so we asked what his plans were for it....his reply: I'm leaving the country! So we had to get to Singapore in time, and th...

Another island trip, another bout of crappy weather - it seems that every time we try to hit the beach for a few days it starts pouring, but that's mainly because it's just raining quite a lot at the time in general, what with the rainy season being in full flow and all... We'd been hoping to go to the Perhentian islands off the east coast of the Malaysian peninsula, since every single person we'd spoken to about Malaysia had recommended them so highly, but havi...