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Singapore 24th of January This entry may be a bit short as the last entry I had spent 2 hours writing is lost as the site just lcoked me out without saving any of the text, I'm rather annoyed. We decided on a few beverages after my last depressing entry (I may need a couple after this one now) and headed to a little German Beer bar near Raffles hotel we had one quick beer and left as the beer was expensive and not that great. So we headed back to a little pub we saw earlier advertising "1 for 1 tiger beer" which is the exact deal I would have at my pub "Welcome to James' Pub, happy hour 1030 - 2300 all beers buy one get one" we found out they had a much ... read more

Night of 19th of January Amanda and I as planned finished the night at a nice French restraunt overlooking the Mekong and the Cambodians playing in the dwindling sunlight. They play some quite interesting games including badminton with no net and kick your brother but my favourite was a family of 3 kids a girl about 5 a boy about 7 and their little brother 1-2 (just started walking). The game was quite basic run around and hide from your little brother. It took them all over the path around the Mekong and looked like heaps of fun. We had a couple of drinks during happy hour/s (5-8) and made the most of the advertised French cuisine by ordering a pizza. 20th of January - Toul Sleng (S-21) and the Choeung Ek killing fields Don't read ... read more

Phnom Pehn I will quickly finish up Angkor Wat. The highlight of the Angkor tour was without a doubt Bayon. It was the site with the most intricate details and the most amazing faces. The whole experience was made all the better due to our cunning plan to avoid the swarm of tourists. We decided to have lunch an hour later as all the tourist buses are locked in to pre booked restraunts at 1230 so we had Bayon basically to ourselves. There are 148 faces still intact all of which are in fantastic condition thanks to the ingenuity of the Hindu invaders who instead of destroying the faces of buddha reconditioned them to represent their gods, with little to no work. One of the Hindu gods has three eyes so the Hindu tradies just used ... read more

Adventures in Luang Prabang We woke up earlyish even though we drunk the mini bar out of booze after our bus trip. We decided to make the most of our free brekky and moved on to do some wat-hopping. Again I'm struck by the chilled atmosphere and easy-going people in Laos and especially LP. There is also a shitload of dogs, well-fed and curious (Amanda adopted three). The place definitely has a touristy atmosphere. The wats seem more real here, as the monks actually seem to live in them. I feel weird taking photos of the monks so We've been papping (papparazzing for the newbies) them through trees. We came across a set of stairs with more then the usual amount of tourists (and tourist profiteers) on them so we bought a gift for the gods ... read more

First of all I apologise for the lacklustre look of the blog entry. I cant work out how to do bold or headings on this Laotian keyboard. Anyway the journey has begun, we got into Vientiane around 2100 lastnight. The flight was fairly uneventful and the food was disgraceful (also the 3hr stopover at Bangkok airport was a bitch). I hopefully load up a few photo's. The first thing to strike you as you get into Wattay airport in Laos is how small it is, seriously Port has a bigger airport (maybe not). We went through customs without any issues. We were wondering wheter to declare Amanda's medication but decided to just walk through no one said a word. We split a cab into town with an Aussie guy and were asleep not long after we ... read more