Hello! We currently have viruses on both our USB and memory cards so we havn't been able to update the blog. Two weeks ago we travelled from Chi Phat to the southern coastline of Cambodia. Our first stop was sihanoukville for some much needed relaxation and sun to burn off our leech-bitten ridden bodies! We loved it here and spent 4 amazing, chilled out days lying on the beach and drinking 50cent beers. Although it was one of the more touristy areas we have been to, the beach was so long we managed to find a nice quiet spot towards the end of the main strip, away from the holiday makers and with a lovely restaurant. Within hours of arriving Rikki had already been convinced to have a foot massage and Lucy found herself having a ... read more

Sorry for the long absence...finally we have good enough Internet to update you all! After our sightseeing in Angkor (pics are now up), we caught the boat to Battambang. The boat wasn't quite what we expected and was pretty cramped for a 9 hour journey! However, the route we took was amazing, going through little water ways and floating villages, with some amazing bird watching along the way.  We spent a day here, exploring the surrounding villages with the help of our tuk-tuk driver/travel guide Tony! He took us around rural Cambodia where we got to see the chilli and peanut farms in action, along with a journey on the "bamboo train" (bamboo raft loosely attached to a set of wheels) that the locals use to transport cargo across town! Eventhough we were both feeling quite ... read more

So our journey through Laos has come to an end :(, but now the Cambodian chapter has begun! We crossed over the border with no problems and made our way into Stung Treng, the first major stop in Cambodia. We stayed here for 2 nights after only planning on staying for the afternoon! We really liked it here, the town is still itself with an amazing market, where the locals go about their daily lives, unaffected by tourism. We loved that only four westerners got off the bus here, with the majority going straight to Phnom Penh or Siem Reap", keeping on the "tourist route". We spent our mornings exploring the market, surrounded by fish flapping, chickens dying and the odd woman trying to sell monkeys on a stick (disgusting)! The rest of the day would ... read more

Kong- Lo Cave, Village home stay and the most amazing 4000 Islands! Where to start.............. the past 2 weeks have been incredible! We decided to head south through Laos and try and get to the Kong-Lo Caves which at first seemed impossible to get to but actually were a pretty easy bus ride! Everyone in Vientiane made the journey seem extremely complicated but with a bit of help from the web we decided to take a chance and catch an early morning bus and hope that we would get there (which we did)! We arrived in a little town called Ba Na Hin which is the nearest point from which to get to the cave, we stayed here the night and then headed to the cave the next morning. The cave was out of this world, ... read more

Thailand into Laos on a slow boat- the ultimate way to travel! Our journey began travelling from Chiang Mai to the border town of Chiang khong with a quick detour to visit the newly built "white temple". This temple was like no other we've seen, it has been designed by a thai artist and is meant to illustrate the journey from hell into heaven. The temple is amazing, like something out of narnia, there should be a snow queen living there! It is so pretty with pristine white walls and tiny mirrors decorating it but it had a dark twisted meaning to it, with the inside being decorated with random pictures of superheroes, the twin towers and george bush and bin laden, along with evil creatures surrounding the temple (such as a metal statue of "predator"). ... read more