So Clive and I decided to carry on our travel plans, so we arrived in Kochi very tired not only from the journey but from all the stresses of London. We stayed in fort Kochi which was a very old portuguesse style port. With an amazing warren of spice markets and scent stalls. Ofcourse in true traveller style we got taken for a ride by a rickshaw driver litterally! and in an afternoon we had spent well over our budget and had filled the rickshaw drivers pocket in backhanders from the stores but we had fun and we bought some amazing herbs and spices for the fraction of the price back home. We also went to see a very traditional acting and mime performance in Kerala called Katakhali which was fantastic especially as the female lead ... read more

So after we said goodbye to the easy riders we had a mooch around Hoi An which is such a beautifull place it is like something out of a movie, lanterns hanging everywhere, coloured buildings, cobbled streets on a river and tailors shops everywhere. Clive had to keep me on a tight budget otherwise I would have run wild like a kid in a candy shop I wanted every lantern in every colour and every size, but like a good girl I settled for one pink one green and one orange. We also all went to a tailor shop it would have been rude not to Clive got his wedding suit made up and I did a bit of designing and drove the girls loopy in there as they kept showing me pictures from the next ... read more

Well we finally arived in HCM,tired bur excited Kat and I have both been looking foward to Nam. As to be expected the city was nuts but in a good way. We started by getting of the bus and making our way to a bar called Guns n Roses, yep welcome to the jungle baby. I left Kat with the bags and went missioning for suitable accomadation, by the time I returned Kat had made friends with the barmaid and was teaching her English. We spent the rest of the day walking around checking out the markets and trying not to get killed every time we crossed the road. Fear Factor ha! Try crossing the a four lane road at peak hour in HCM. We also had our first cup of Vietnam coffee, pure rocket fuel ... read more

We decided we needed a bit of Rn R so we haeded straight to the beach, this travelling thing can get a bit tiring. We found a really cool place, which was a little out of our budget but worth it. We were the only people staying there as they had just bought the resort and were not really open. We had a place right on the beach, just what the doctor ordered. Nothing like falling asleep with ocean rasping on the sand. We stayed for three days, chilled swam did nothing really. Great! Kat made a friend with a little girl Ean, Kat designed some earrings and Ean whipped them togther quick stix. We then made our way up to the capital our last stop before Vietnam. ... read more

We left Kratie and made our way towards Siem Riep another journey that took awhile, surprise. We eventually made it, we managed to orginise a motor taxi for the next days temple viewing. We left at about six in the morning to make our way to the river Lingas, this journey took about 3 hrs in total. It was bumpy, which did not help Kats dickie belly but it was alot of fun and intresting, passing through little farming hamlets with all the children shouting hello. The river lingas are carvings in the river bed which blessed the water that runs over them, this blessed water then ran into the valley and rice paddys, ensureing a good harvest. It was about half an hour trek in to the jungle, of course uphill. The whole place felt ... read more