November 19th We had a bit of a lie in, then headed straight for the beach, and it was amazing. The sand was white and the sea was crystal clear, it was nearly as nice as Rest Bay.....nearly. We spent most of the day splashing about in the sea or chilling on the beach. It was pretty busy there, but not too bad, although there were an awful lot of Scandinavians there! On the way back from the beach, we noticed a shop that was selling dvds. On the rack there was ...

16th November We rolled into Bangkok train station at 6am, just as the sun was rising. As we'd booked our tickets late we ended up with top bunks right next to the toilets, which pretty much meant we had a rough and smelly nights sleep. Jumped in a taxi and headed back to the Rambuttri Village hotel, the same one we'd stayed in last time and slept......slept a lot! When we finally surfaced we spent the rest of the afternoon/evening taking advantage of the roo...

10th November So we had finally arrived in Chiang Mai. We hopped off the train (well I rather stumbled under the weight of my bag!) and were immediately accosted by men and women holiding up signs with names on and shouting 'Tuk Tuk...where you go?'. Having already contacted the hotel were under the assumption that we too would have our own little man waiting for us holding a sign with our names on......nope! Instead we suffered another 15 minutes of people ac...

November 6th The bus picked us up at 9:30am and we were on our way to Bangkok for only $8 each.....Bargain. Very little to say about the journey, it was just the same as any other bus journey. The stories that we had heard about the roads in Cambodia being crap turned out not to be true, so we were at Poipet in a couple of ours. We waited in line to be stamped out of Cambodia, and strolled across the bridge (past a few casinos) to the Thai side where we w...

November 1st We caught the 8:30 bus from our hotel to Siem Reap.This was actually one of the nicer buses we had travelled on, so were able to nap a bit on the way.We arrived in Siem Reap about 3 o clock, and took a tuk tuk to our hotel.About half way there the tuk tuk driver had to stop due to the road being closed off for the water festival on the river.He gave us vague directions so we headed off into the crowds to find our hotel.With a little help from anoth...