The bus came to pick us up at 7:30 and I was still having trouble holding everything in. I took the last bowel stopper in a last attempt to hold things back. Jacinta was a lot better but felt tired from me keeping her up early in the morning. It was going to be a nine hour bus ride to Bangkok with a 2 hour wait at the border. Travelling trough Cambodia it was very dry and with the harvested rice fields all dried up and brown in didn’t make for a very pretty picture. I’m sure in the wet season the rice fields would be lush and green and this place would be beautiful, but the sacrifice would be the terribly hot humid conditions. We arrived at the border and within an instant had a ... read more

I once again had a shitty night sleep and our tuk tuk driver wanted to take us out to temple called Banteay srei which had the most preserved and detailed carvings but was also small and very busy. It was a long way out and so we agreed on $25USD for the day and we put it in writing this time. It took 45min to get out to the temple and only 20min to walk through. It was another half hour drive by tuk tuk to get to a waterfall located in the National park which has a 1.5km walk up the hill, it has carving’s engraved on the rock face with a waterfall beside it. It was alright to look at but by this time I was feeling quiet flat and didn’t understand why I ... read more

27/1/10: We landed in Cambodia with a hazy dry landscape all around. I was surprised at how flat it was and thought it had more hills. Jacinta tried to spot Angkor Wat from the plane but the visibility was to poor. We went through the visa terminal in a breeze and couldn’t believe the efficiency. We handed our passport to one guy who took our $20USD each for the visas and then the passports all got handed down the line to a team of 15 Cambodians who proceeded to stamp and issue the visas in our passports until they were spat out the other side ready to pick up. I think we were through the whole ordeal in 5mins. As usual the passport stamping took a little longer but our bags had been around the carousel ... read more

I'm starting a new blog called Where's Dan. The aim of the game is to find me in the photo. I will try to put a new photos one once a week from our two years travels around the world. My aim is to get as many people around the world to join my blog. Pass the word on and you may even come across Where's Dan walking down the street some day. One quick hint for finding me, I will always be wearing my Aussie Hat in the picture. ... read more

Had a shitty night sleep and I’m convinced that humans are not supposed to sleep on 1 inch thick hessian mattresses. It was 3:00 in the morning and even though I couldn’t see the slightest shred of light the roosters obviously could. I can’t describe how loud it was at the village this early in the morning, there was literally two if not three roosters crowing every second. The crowing can only be described as a competition between other rival roosters, who could crow the loudest and the most amount of times before the sun came up. The sun came up at 6:15, then ducks, pigs, goats and turkeys all joined in to welcome in the new day. I’m sure you would get used to it after awhile and even though I have lived on a ... read more