Cambodia had long been on our list of places we wanted to see because of the amazing temples of Angkor. Cambodia is a nation that is struggling to rebuild itself after 3 decades of civil war and years of terror and trauma, including the four year reign of genocide terror that Pol Pot inflicted on the nation. Tourism is about to take off for Cambodia in a big way as its developed neighbours cannot compete with the treasure Cambodia has in Angkor.Our trip to Siem ...

India said goodbye to Heather with a vengeance, by giving her a severe dose of "Delhi Belly" on the day we flew out to Bangkok. Not a pleasant experience being sick on a plane! Fortunately we had decided to book our accommodation ahead so we were able to grab a "limo cab" on arrival at the airport and go straight to our hotel room in comfort and without much delay, where Heather could begin the process of getting better again.We stayed in Khaosan Road where all ...

We went back to Delhi for two days to catch up on some rest before moving onto Bangkok and new adventures.Our train trip back to Delhi was not without incident. We arrived to our much awaited "romantic" sleeper carriage. How nice to be just us travelling through the night. Wrong! Our carriage had 2 Indian men already setting themselves up. We went to find the stationmaster or anybody to help. The list outside of our carriage only had our names.We had paid for 4 b...

Our 13 hour trip to Udaipur was quite an adventure.Our first 6 hour bus was a local one which stopped all along the way, picking up and dropping off and carrying various commodities (no chickens though!). We were the only westerners on this and the later bus we took. The roads in India are quite rough and busy with traffic and stray animals and the bus drivers spend the whole time tooting their horns, swerving and yelling. The buses have lousy suspension too! The...

 There was madness at the bus station when we arrived in Jaisalmer.Auto rickshaw drivers were making a real din clamoring for our business and trying to drag us off the bus. One of them tried to manhandle our luggage from the rear of the bus until Avan spotted him and yanked him off by the collar. There was only 2 other Westerners on the bus, a German couple, and they had a vehicle from a hotel pick them up and so we went with them to that hotel.It turned out t...