So we got to Kho Tao (aka Turtle island) and dumped our bags in the nearest guest house we could find. I was quick to show Marcus around Sariee beach, which is where I stayed last time. The vibe about this island is different to the rest on the Gulf coast. Its pretty chilled out and filled with divers, but alas everything that is perfect has to be ruined. As we walked down the main strip through the pockets of little shops and restaurants I soon realised what was...

So we hit Bangkok and stayed a couple of nights before we went to Kho Samui (I should add that we HAD to go to BKK to get to Samui as all roads go via BKK). We stayed at a lovely hotel on Rambuttri Road, which is a road that runs parallel to Khaosan Road. Its a really lovely street that is filled with really cheap street food (40BHT for a curry - that's less then a pound!) it also has cool t-shirts, beautiful leather bags, amazing hand crafted jewellery, thai cus...

The journey to Koh Samet from Phnom Penh was an interesting one to say the least. We suffered a 5 hour journey to Koh Kong to pass border control... the process made much easier by the fact we had a 2 month visa already in place and, also, because it was not the s***hole we travelled through before... the hell that is Poi Pet. We made it through the border with ease, though it took fricking ages, and re-entered Thailand in high spirits. Those aforementioned hig...

After yet another bus journey filled with motion sickness, and minus an Aussie and a Sophie (the latter decided to get a boat to our next destination and the former went back home), we reached Phnom Penh!! Wow what a hell hole!!! The capital of Cambodia was poverty stricken and just felt.......well uncomfortable! Everywhere you turned there was a local trying to offer you anything from a tuk tuk to narcotics and there were beggers on every street corner, which wa...

To say that the journey from Koh Chang to Siem Reap was a lengthy one would be an understatement. Spending half a day on a bus and having to journey through the Poi-Pet border is a daunting task at the best of times, however, mix in some travel sickness and being taken for a ride by a con-artist and you have the recipe for hell! Poi-Pet itself can only be described as a s***-hole! Officially, it's no-man's land... neither belonging to Thailand nor to Cambodia, a...