Hi y'all Well we are in Vietnam, and have been for the past three days. We took the bus from Phnom Pehn across the boarder into Saigon, where we stayed for one day. Saigon is a pretty huge city and a bit manic, but it's okay because they have great chocolate cookies and cheap internet, so this compensates for the madness. During our day in Saigon we took a trip to the Cu Chi tunnels, which were used as hideout for the Viet Cong guerillas during their w...

Hello Yesterday we where in Phonm Penn and we took in the main sights which were the S21 genocidal musuem and the killing fields. S21, before the Khmer Rouge revolution in 1975, was a high school. After the revolution the school was changed into a prison where people where taken to be "re-educated". In reality they where tortured for days, sometimes even weeks and made to confess to their supposed anti-revolutionary crimes. During the four years of...

I'm writing to tell you about my near death experience with a spider. It all happened on our bus journey between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. We'd made a stop at a little market place, where young children come to your bus window attempting to sell you their bread/ fruit/ deep fried grasshoppers. I'd opened our window so that Dean could haggle the price of pineapple with a ten year old. Then I spotted her...the girl with the tarantula. I gave a little yelp and ...

Hello from Siem Reap, Cambodia! We flew into the country two days ago with our temporary travel companion, Ruth, whom we met in Don Khong and just happened to be booked on the same flight as us. The three of us have been busy exploring the city. On our first day we hired a tuk tuk and visited some of the cities major sites including the war museum and the worlds dodgiest zoo, before catching the sunset at one of the Ankor Wat temples. At the mine m...

Hello from Pakse, I realise that it has been ages since my last postcard, but this has been due to a) staying in remote villages with no internet conncetion b) remote villages with over priced internet connection. Well, after Vang Vieng we headed to the capital, Vientiane by Kayak (yes that's right, Kayak). We stayed overnight in Vientiane and didn't really get up to much exciting as I spent the entire time trying to buy a new camera (my previous ca...