THAILAND | Thursday, 23 Oct 2008 | Views [441]
October 8th 2008 We spent the day travelling by bus from Siem Reap to Bangkok. The Cambodian part of the journey was not the most pleasant - an old bus brought us along a dusty and rocky dirt road to the border. Windows were constantly being opened ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Views [370]
7th October All plans to have a lie-in were in vain as the morning street noise started to crescend into quite a concert of sounds outside our bedroom window at about 7.30am. Nevertheless, it didn't spoil my plan to do very little with the day. The ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 7 Oct 2008 | Views [518]
October 5th-6th On the bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, Robbie and I diagnosed his recent illness, deciding he must have been suffering from PTT: Pre- Temple Tension. It is no wonder when we knew that we had gone against all advice from guidebooks ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [553]
September 29th - October 5th Luckily, all went well at the Veun Kham border crossing from Laos to Cambodia although we annoyingly had to pay an extra dollar for the visa for no apparent reason along with a dollar for a stamp on the visa (the price not ... Read more >
LAOS | Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [404]
September 26th - 28th Don Det is part of the 4000 Islands in southern Laos, a region so-called because many islands and sand banks spring out of the Mekong, the numbers varying depending on the rainfall. We arrived there after a two and a half hour ... Read more >
LAOS | Tuesday, 30 Sep 2008 | Views [590]
September 19th - 20th A seven hour bus journey (everywhere in Laos seems to be about seven or eight hours by bus) took us from the picturesque town of Luan Probang to the remote, one-street town of Phonsavan. I quote the Lonely Planet Guide ... Read more >
LAOS | Monday, 29 Sep 2008 | Views [398]
September 21st - 23rd The night bus from Phonsaven to Vientiane turned out to be pretty torturous. From the moment we got on to the moment we got off, ten hours later, we had to listen to karaoke tunes which must have been played at top volume. The ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008 | Views [272]
Lost Playgrounds How vulnerable is this world, Where an innocent field becomes a death-trap? Children who once played without a thought, Now rummage for metal they can sell as scrap. And the destruction lies even deeper, ... Read more >
LAOS | Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008 | Views [579]
September 19th - 20th A seven hour bus journey (everywhere in Laos seems to be about seven or eight hours by bus) took us from the picturesque town of Luan Probang to the remote, one-street town of Phonsavan. I quote the Lonely Planet Guide on this ... Read more >
LAOS | Monday, 22 Sep 2008 | Views [300]
September 15th - 19th After an 8 hour bus journey from Vang Vieng, it was delightful to arrive in pretty Luang Probang: a town built at the confluence of the Mekong River and the Nam Khan, where French colonial buldings stand next to tin-roofed wooden ... Read more >
LAOS | Thursday, 18 Sep 2008 | Views [547]
September 12th -14th Vang Vieng lies about four hours north by bus from Vientiane and is the backpacking destination in Laos for "river tubing". We had met a number of bruised travellers before arriving who had told us about the craze that ... Read more >
LAOS | Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 | Views [558]
September 10th-11th I was very curious to see what was awaiting us in Laos: the country which has been most heavily bombed, on a per capita basis, in the history of warfare (according to the Lonely Planet, the USA had, by 1973, been dropping an average ... Read more >
LAOS | Thursday, 11 Sep 2008 | Views [508]
Tuesday Sept. 9th - Wednesday Sept. 10th The much dreaded journey, crossing from Vietnam into Laos, turned out to be better than we had imagined. That's not to say the beginning of the journey did much for calming our fears. We were collected from ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sunday, 7 Sep 2008 | Views [551]
It wasn't really a very good start to our trip to the mountains in North Vietnam. Firstly, I didn't manage to get my credit or bank card back so had to leave Hanoi heavy-hearted, people promising me (again) that the cards would definitely be there when ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Friday, 5 Sep 2008 | Views [284]
Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage in northeastern Vietnam featuring thousands of limestone rocks protruding out of the water. Our 3 day trip there was, for me, one of the highlights of our travelling so far. We were transported around the site on ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 | Views [301]
Sunday August 31st The lights weren't turned on in the night bus from Hue to Hanoi so as the sun went down around 6pm, I sat back, listened to music and watched the stars for a good 4 hours. I then drifted in and out of thoughts but must have slept ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Friday, 29 Aug 2008 | Views [596]
Friday, August 29th On the 8am bus from Hoi An to Hue a song that I don't recall ever hearing before on my ipod - Paul Hardcastle's "Nineteen" - starts playing via the shuffle function. As I sit there, watching the beautiful Vietnamese landscape ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 | Views [916]
August 26th There was a bit of a kafuffle when we came to check out of our hotel this morninig. What we presumed to be complimentary food and drink in our room (in a basket with a ribbon on), turns out to be, for the budget traveller, a very expensive ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 | Views [390]
Ckick, snap, a moment is captured, But is reality reflected or is it just fractured? You're intrigued and curious about the culture, But is dignity maintained when you snap like a vulture? La fotografia. Chaotic traffic, ladies cooking in the ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008 | Views [3133] | Comments [2]
August 20th: Mui Ne Beach I was so happy when we arrived at Mui Ne Beach after our 4 hour bus journey from Saigon: our room had a balcony which overlooked a beautiful beach (only $7 a night each), there were palm trees everywhere and a place across ... Read more >
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