5am was a rude hour to be getting up. Still dark we made our way through Siem Reap in the tuk tuk. I was surprised to see people still in bars drinking and playing pool - hardcore. The air was cold as we reached the outskirts of town. We overtook several other tuk tuks with western travellers who appeared to be wrapped up in hoodies and sweaters (more prepared than us). We had predicted that the roads would be quiet. This was true, however when we arrived at the ...

The day started on a sad note as Scott logged onto facebook and found out his family jack russell, Libby, had passed away. We then commenced a long long journey by boat along the Mekong Delta to Siem Reap. We left at 7.30am and it was 2pm when we arrived. Despite a hefty sum of $35 each for the ride we were packed on like sardines, and although we had been allocated a seat on the bench we were left fighting for space. We thought we'd hit on a good thing finding a...

Back in 1975 to 1979 Cambodia was called Kampuchea and it was under the control of the Khmer Rouge, a regime famous for their prisons and killing fields. Our tours today would take us to the Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre 15km outside Phnom Penh and to the Toul Sleng Genocidal Museum (former office S.21). It was safe to say today would be all about death and torture. I am not sure if our tours were gong to help Julia feel any better as she was suffering from man flu...

Boats, waiting, waiting, more waiting, hot and sweaty, boat ride again - going on and on and on. When will we ever get to Cambodia? That just about sums up the day - we did have a brief visit at a ridiculous o'clock in the morning to a fish farm on the Mekong Delta. We saw how the farmers and their families live in a floating home with large nets underneath housing the fish. Trapdoors in the floor opened up to the water beneath so they could feed the fish pellet...

I have noticed in Vietnam that the adults ride their motor-scooters wearing helmets whilst their children have no head protection, what's that all about?! As you would expect, things in South East Asia are very different compared with back home. There only seems to be one rule out here on the roads and that's toot your horn at every opportunity - it gets very annoying. Despite being annoying, watching the daily rush hour traffic is very entertaining. Our first l...