Those three countries sounds pretty whirlwind given that it’s only a touch over a fortnight ago when I was still in China. The truth though is that my time in South East Asia has been pretty quiet with a lot of lazing around.

How does a traveller make the journey from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, around 300km north. Fly? Booked out. Boat? Dry season, lake too low. Bus? Forget about it, after the amount of travel we’d done already we were not spending six or seven hours on a bus, that and Steve was suffering from a vicious hangover (they get really bad over here!) Motorbike? Steve would probably fallen off from the aforementioned illness.
No, we splashed out and got driven up in a car to ourselves. A fairly interesting journey …

OK, awake now!
Apologies to all about the lack of post attached to the pictures, but I recall it had been a very long day.
We’re now in Sapa, in the North-West of Vietnam, and we’ll try to work our way back chronologically from the first post.
If I double up on anything I apologise, but whilst writing this is Sapa, I’m not sure when it will get posted as there isn’t any internet up here. (edit – now in Ninh Bin, south of Hanoi – still chasing an internet connection!)
We arrived in …

Sitting at the Bodhi Tree guesthouse in Cambodia debating whether to have the Pancakes with honey, coconut cream and fresh fruit or the Crepes with ice cream and chocolate syrup, with a traditional coffee seemed like the perfect place to update the blog.
It’s wednesday morning and we’re in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We arrived into Saigon, Vietnam on Saturday night and after dropping our bags into our hotel we jumped on the back of moto’s and headed to a local restaurant to meet Shannon.
Sunday in Saigon consisted of a …