Spent 3 days in Mui Ne, a seriously chilled out tiny beach town (there's hardly a town here really, just a single road) a few hours north of Saigon. No traffic, hardly any cars and just 22km of sandy beach - perfect! It's really windy so it's a haven for kite surfers and windsurfers, which means the sea isn't great for swimming, but we were literally just doing nothing - staying in cute little wooden bungalows right on the beach, and rolling out of bed to sit on deck chairs on the beach, drink fruit shakes, watch the amazing kite surfers and by night, eat seafood and drink cocktails - bliss! Didn't realise how exhausted I was from travelling as have been constantly on the go for at least the last month and desperately needed a ... read more

On a busy street of Saigon, a local old man stops dead in his tracks - his jaw drops and he is staring, wide-eyed at someone. In his overwhelmed state, he manages to stutter "V-v-vic-toria A-a-adams..." He starts to shout and walk towards her, pointing, "VICTORIA ADAMS! VICTORIA ADAMS! POSH SPICE!!" People on the street start to turn, and I look around to see who he is pointing at. It's.......Alex. Oh my god, hilaaarious. ... read more

Despite the unfortunate incident with my camera, I set off in my tuk tuk, plastic disposable camera in hand, to see the temples of Angkor, the most famous sight in Cambodia and probably all of S-E Asia. Angkor was once a great empire, built in 200 AD and is now a lost city, surrounded by forest and lakes. Angkor Wat is the most famous one, and is the largest religious building in the world, but all the temples were amazing in their own way - the Bayon: hundreds of huge buddha faces built into the stone, Ta Prohm: completely swallowed by the jungle - huge trees growing onto and into the huge temple, and also peaceful magical smaller temples surrounded by moats, temples with intricate beautiful carvings, and walls depicting ancient stories. Would probably take a ... read more

After cleverly choosing to leave Semporna on Hari Raya, the holiday equivalent of Christmas Day, we managed to get out to Sepilok after lots of negotiating with rickety minivans and arrived hot, sweaty and tired in the lush jungle surroundings of Sepilok, staying at the little hostel lodge where we were the only guests! Was like our own private jungle retreat (complete with mosquitos and red ants), which was cool. Spent an evening relaxing, enjoying the jungle sounds and getting eaten alive by mosquitos then the next day went to the Sepilok Orang Utan sanctuary to see the adorable animals. Unfortunately, the main part of the sanctuary had blown down in strong winds a few days before, so most of the viewing areas and jungle walks were closed, so we could only see the baby orang ... read more