We landed in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, after a short flight from Vientiane in Laos, and after paying $20 for our visas we picked up our luggage and got a tuk tuk outside the airport, towards the riverside area where we wanted to stay. As soon as we were out of the airport and on the main roads we saw the craziest traffic and most chaotic driving we had seen so far on our whole trip - Bangkok looked positively safe and calm compared to this! In Cambodia you drive on the right hand side, but there were cars and bikes coming towards us on our side of the road - they just drive whichever way they want and you need to dodge them - we even saw a small accident and were not ... read more

We left Luang Prabang, shortly after finishing giving alms to the monks, to go the bus terminal via a tuk-tuk arranged from the hotel. The scienic bus journey took around 5 hours passing through small villages and up the winding moutains, with great views all the way - When we arrived we quickly located a few guesthouses looking over the Vang Vieng river (the area we wanted to stay in) and quickly decided on a spacious room on the top floor of a guesthouse with views looking out to the mountains and river, with a huge balcony. After watching the sunset, we decided to head out to the town to see what was on offer in terms of food and nightlife. The town, which is less than 15 yrs old and was only formed as a ... read more

We got back to Bangkok early after our restful journey on the government bus - this is definately the way to go from now on - and headed towards the hotel that we had stayed at when we were there before, so that we could spend the day by the pool as it was so hot, before catching our overnight train that night to Chaing Mai in the north. We had some dinner and then made our way to the train station on the other side of town for our 10pm train, something we had been looking forward to as it would mean we had tried almost every mode of transport in Thailand - bus, moped, tuk tuk, ferry, car and now train. We boarded and were pleased to see the beds were already set up ... read more

We arrived in Bangkok at 6am after our overnight bus from Krabi, which went smoothly, and as we didn't have any accomodation booked we headed to the main backpacker district of Koh San Road. This road is lined with shops, bars and restaurants as well as street stalls and markets, and at 6am was still going from the night before. Tired, hungry and in need of a shower this wasn't what we needed, so after a fruitless search of the nearby roads to find some decent accomodation (this involved Scott running around trying to look for a nice place to stay at a nice price, not easy in one of the worlds biggest and busiest capital cities), plus by 8am it was already about 25 degrees. Luckily we soon found a nice little hotel with a ... read more

We arrived into Phuket international at 7.00pm after leaving behind a torrential down pour in Singapore where for a short while we didn't think our flight would take off at all. Anyway, we managed to negotiate our way out of the airport dodging the onslaught of various tour operators and taxi companies. We located the taxi rank and were soon on our way to Patong which would be our first point of call on our tour of Thailand. Patong is an area of Phuket which is probably the most tourity part, full of shops (where you can haggle endlessly for bargains), tasty restuarants, bars, clubs and more...we knew this before we arrived and were actually really loking forward to it. We had booked a hotel online before we arrived and got a great deal, but when ... read more