Promise this one will be shorter....After the adventures in Ban Lung the trip has settled down into more sedate travelling, ish. We visited Kratie, the site on the Mekong where the graceful Irrawaddy dolphins are found. Sun setting, beautiful surroundings, dolphins swimming around the boat. Ah! It's tough this travelling malarkey! Then moved on to the capital, Phnom Penh. As expected a more bustling environment but still nowhere near as hectic as Hanoi or Ho ...

After a number of mini-adventures on bikes with the Howarth boys we decided to go for an all-out adventure into Virachey National Park. The original plan to do a 4-day kayak trip was postponed after a series of unfortunate accidents/calamities that occurred to Tim including him gluing his fingers together with superglue, ruining his shorts, wiping chilli in his eye and then ending the day with spectacular vomiting…. I didn’t laugh once. Honest. The...

And I'm back..... After another short bout of illness – if only that meant I was turning into a stick insect! – we spent an excellent day of spectacular waterfall spotting on the Bolaven Plateau. Breathtaking is not the word (photos will follow eventually I promise). The following day, Somchit driver (that really was his name!) took us in relative luxury down to the islands of Si Phan Don. Don Det was everything I’d been hoping for with a...