Only one full day left in enigmatic Cambodia. It's going to be such a shame to leave this incredible country as there's so much, all in the details, that we're going to miss. Here are some of the minutiae that make up the crazy whole that we love so much:- Khmer food (especially Lok Lak and the supremely delicious Amok), local markets selling the living, barely living and very much dead creatures of this country (you can ascertain the level of life by the number of flies - the more flies, the deader it is), the gorgeous red dust tan, counting the number of hello's received as we walk through a new village and the most beautiful smiles as we return the greeting, the happy serendipity of arriving, randomly, at the perfect guest house after a ... read more

We've been on the move. Had to force ourselves off the beach and brave the journey back to Bangkok, it only took us 20 hours this time and cost 200 Baht less, so that was nice! Decided, due to a change of plan, not to stay in Bangkok so we booked a train to Lopburi, waited the three hours for it to leave then enjoyed the relative comfort of a third class journey a little way North. Lopbori is a fairly small town that has some really interesting ruins from the 6th to 10th centuries AD, but the real reason we came was to give Anny her first sighting of some monkeys. This town has a troup of mischievous monkeys running amok, and after a little hunting we found the pesky buggers! They seemed to have ... read more

Hello from Bangkok! We all arrived safe and sound, if a little bleary eyed, after our 22hr journey, stepping onto Thai soil for the first time at 7am Sat morning. It was already very hot and muggy but it was lovely to be able to smell that sweet, earthy smell of the tropics again; not so nice to be reaquainted with the smell smell of human effluent! Still, not nearly as bad as India. Infact after almost three days in Bangkok I have to admit to being impressed by the cleanliness and tidyness of the city. There is comparitively little litter and all the parks, monuments and especially the Temples and Palaces are kept in remarkably good order. We are staying on the Koh Sahn road, a predominantly traveler orientated part of Bangkok. It has little ... read more