Firstly I would like to apologise for the gap since the last postcard and also the fact that as a result of this, this may be a long one! We spent 3 days discovering the Temples of Angkor, which were built between the 9th and the 13th centuries by a succession of Khmer devaraja (god-kings). We had a little moto (motorcycle with tuk tuk type thing attached to the back) and were driven around the temples by a very nice man called Set. Day 1 - Woke up at ...

Well hello again everyone and welcome to the latest epistle. Hope I'm not boring you too much yet! Yesterday (Sunday 10th) we decided it was time to leave the bustle of Bangkok and head East into Cambodia. Before our departure we had to stock up on the latest malaria tablets, side effects of which include ulceration of the oesophegus and swelling of the head!! I am still with Maria and Alan and we left the hotel at 0630 to book our tickets on the bus to ...

Well I am now back in sunny Bangkok. I decided against travelling south on my own as the Foreign Office does not recommend travel to Southern Thailand and parts of Malaysia and Indonesia at present. Instead, I'm travelling with Maria and Alan to Cambodia and Vietnam, before flying solo back to Singapore for a few days and then on to Perth at the beginning of November. After a ferry trip and two bus rides, we took the overnight train from Surat Thani to Ban...

Hello from the monsoon season - it has barely stopped raining since we arrived, hence the goggles! We were picked up from our hotel at 0830 in a minibus, which then collected 4 other people. Alan was sat at the back with a girl called Angela from Australia and I was sat just in front of them, making it very difficult not to eavesdrop! Her opening line was that she had come to Thailand for cosmetic surgery and had been in hospital for the past week - a stra...

From our hotels on Phuket, we took a boat trip to Ko Phi Phi (pronounced pee pee; ko means island), which took about 2 and a half hours and was very pretty. Ko Phi Phi is part of a national marine park, which comprises numerous satellite islands, the most famous of which is uninhabited and called Ko Phi Phi Leh. This island is famous for being the location for the movie The Beach, starring Leonardo Di Caprio. Before filming took place the production crew had t...