Merry Christmas Everyone. Smile and the whole world smiles with you. Friday 16th December Another early start as we are picked up outside our hotel at 0730 for the 2-day trip to the Mekong Delta. Of the 83 million people living in Vietnam, 18 million live within the Mekong Delta area which is pretty amazing given the size of the place. The two day trip has cost us an amazing 16 dorrar including the overnight hotel. Once more the minibus is...

The Littlest Hobo Sunday 11th December Pack up and leave Sihanoukville this morning. We are very sad to be leaving this place because it is so chilled out and peaceful. Whether or the the place will be totally ruined in a few years through the inevitable commercialisation remains to be seen. My guess is that it will and the upgrading of the local airport cannot be far off. For those intersted you can buy a nice plot of land for around 70 000 dorrar a...

Tuesday 6th Dec Leave for Sihanoukville (SV) this morning, weather is sunny again and about 30 degrees. We are getting used to sitting on the bus for hours now, unfortunately we are still not getting used to the stinky toilets that go hand in hand with every stop. The welcoming committee at SV are a bit more restrained than those at Siem Riep and we climb aboard two motos with our backpacks down in the foot well of the driver. Turn down the first...

Angkor Wat & Siem Riep 30th November 2005 Early start (ok around 0630 ish) to get to Siem Riep, gateway to the famous Angkor Wat. Connecting bus (4 dorrar) is late arriving to PP so we sit there until about 9am. Several men in suits get on at the last minute and proceed to re-organise the seating to their own liking moving the less well off and backpackers (one and the same?) out of their seats so they can be near the front. Me and the wife are ...

Pretty popular place Phnom Penh Monday 28th November. Early flight to Phnom Penh PP this morning. Got up at 0430, ouch, and our driver was waiting to take us to the airport. We travel with Asia's equivalent to Easyjet, Air Asia, which is not too bad really. We arrive in PP at 0810 on schedule and one is struck by the feeling that it looks like a provincial airport a bit like one would imagine Bristol or Southampton. It is pretty warm even at this...