SIEM REAP - 9 - 13 March NEVER CROSS THE BOARDER TO ANOTHER COUNTRY WITHOUT CHECKING THE CURRENCY CONVERTION AND WITH A MASSIVE HANGOVER! We did not follow the above advice! After a couple of hours sleep we left Bangkok and started what should have been a 6 hour trip to Siem Reap. If you have been to South East Asia you will know that no trip is simple, it envolves being taken to varoius places by various modes of transport, lots of waiting around and general...

SIEM REAP - 9 - 13 March NEVER CROSS THE BOARDER TO ANOTHER COUNTRY WITHOUT CHECKING THE CURRENCY CONVERTION AND WITH A MASSIVE HANGOVER! We did not follow the above advice! After a couple of hours sleep we left Bangkok and started what should have been a 6 hour trip to Siem Reap. If you have been to South East Asia you will know that no trip is simple, it envolves being taken to varoius places by various modes of transport, lots of waiting around and gener...

KOH LANTA - 23/2/2015 - 27/2/2015 "How long do you think it will take to get to Koh Lanta?" Äbout 4 hours?" WRONG!! 13 hours it took us to get there from Langkawi using a selection of transport types: 4x4 to the ferry port, ferry to mainland,long tuk tuk to Satun coach station, "luxury" coach, then a mini bus, then another ferry to Koh Lanta then finally a truck to Long Beach. All the way with us we were kept company by a Dutch guy called Jerome who meant to s...

March 18th - Kuala Lumpur (Airport!) Aftter a pretty awesome 8 hour flight from Melbourne where we were plied with food and booze throughout we landed pretty merry in KL. We didn't think much of KL last time we visted so we pre booked a night at the aiport hotel watched some debate-able Malaysian TV and got ready for another flight to Penang the following morning. March 19th - Penang After the shortest flight ever (less than 40 minutes) we landed in Penang ni...