Day 47 Up early keen to check into our night of luxury at the Blue Ocean Resort. We got a taxi only to be greeted by an American girl ranting and raving about how poor the service was, in retrospect this probably went in our favour cos our service was second to none. After dwelling in our air conditioned luxurious room we hit our private beach to catch some waves. After some relaxing we went for some BBQ Snapper and Tuna for lunch. Then back to the beach for some more swimming and watching in awe of the kite and wind [View Full Entry]

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Day 42 Up at 6.30am, we grabbed a tuktuk to the bus station stopping in at the supermarket for essentials water, snickers and chips before boarding the MekongExpress ($20) we arrived Phenom Penh about four hours later Carly woken just the once by rain! Yeah rain somehow made it through the closed window, fortunately the rain was short lived. After a quick bite for lunch we were back on the bus again to Ho Chi Minh. This leg proved to be significantly longer with a good couple hours of passport checking before and after crossing the border. Thankfully we arrived safely [View Full Entry]

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Day36 After feeling all templed out we left Siam reap and headed for Sihanoukville (The ville). We were up bright and early (6 am) to catch the bus to Phenom Penh and then on to the Ville. After a non-eventful 10 hour bus trip we had arrived. Unfortunately, the weather was poor, windy and raining so much that is already dark at 6 pm. We jumped on a moto each and headed for a cheap guesthouse with hot water. We had a quite evening watching a really shithouse movie a comedy about a dwarf/midget, the only thing entertaining was watching him [View Full Entry]

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Day 33 Siam Reap The home of the world heritage Temples of Angkor (made famous by the Tomb raider films). Up bright and early after a good sleep we grabbed a couple bagettes for the road and eventually located our pickup to the bus station waiting out in the street. We arrived in Siam reap after a 6.5 hour bus ride from Phenom Penh ($4.50 each) to a milling pack of competing tuk tuk drivers. Being the only westerners on the bus were considered a prime target, a walking ATM or dollar sign for them. After much shouting, sceaming and even [View Full Entry]

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Day 30 The Journey to Cambodia (Siem Reap) Up and managed to have breaky in time for our boat departure's from Mr. Mo's. We crossed the border hassle free and arrived at Stung Treng where they advised us we were not able to go as there weren't enough people and we would have to stay there the night. After much debating and utter defiance towards staying a night, two hours later they finally agreed to providing a mini bus at an extra $6 each if we all agreed to go to Phenon Penh. So to Phenon Penh it was. A long [View Full Entry]

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Day 28 The journey to Don Det Leaving it just a little too late to comfortably get breaky in as usual, we had it thrown into plastic bags as we jumped on a tuk tuk(15k) heading to the ferry, only to wait there for another 15minutes before it left. We got the ferry across as it started bucketing down rain, our tuktuk then dropped us off at the local bus stop which provided some shelter as we waited ... for the local bus (40k) (an experience in itself). Filled with local's and what ever they need to transport with them, one [View Full Entry]

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Day 26 We arrived in Pakse after as good of sleep one could expect on a bus at 6.30am only to be bombarded by 10 people demanding to take us somewhere! We eventually jumped on a tuk tuk (apprehensively) with another 8 people and headed for Sabaidy Guesthouse only to find it full. Not keen on waiting around for people to check out Jez went exploring whilst Carly minded the bags, and we ended up settling at Nasin... Hotel- big stark and generally ugly but relatively cheap. After a quick kip that turned into a couple hours we dragged ourself out [View Full Entry]

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Day 23 After waking roasting in our oven/cell, to find no water we hit the road in search of a new guesthouse, fortunately Mixay had a room and following the cell we were in luxury with a big room, own bathroom (with hot water) and 3 huge windows overlooking the city! We hired some bikes and went exploring.. First stop the market for Carly to replace her sunnies from the misadventure tubing- hot $12 Diors that we got tired of haggling for but would do the job. We arrived back at our bikes only to realise Jez had lost the key [View Full Entry]

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Day18- Luang Prabang Refreshed after our early night we headed out in search of a Lonely Planet of Laos feeling out South east Asia one wasn't cutting it and then headed off on the Walking Tour. First stop was Big Brother Mouse a company set up to publish and distribute books to young Laos children to help them learn to read and write. Feeling that was a worthwhile way to help this incredibly poor country productively ( As there's heaps of children begging and apparently many of the children begging spend then money on drugs and not food!) we purchased a [View Full Entry]

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Day 22 Kayaking to Vientiane from Vang Vieng After a quite evening we rose early ready to hit the rapids with our Irish mates Carl and Martha. After a couple hour tuk tuk ride we arrived a our lauching point on the Nam Lik River. Following some very brief kayaking instructions is was afterall only our first time we boarded our two man kayak and set off. After some zig zagging down the river we finally got the hang of it before being beakoned to the side of the river for more instructions. We climbed up 7m above river level to [View Full Entry]

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