Not done too much today, slept till 10am, which was brilliant needed to catch up on some sleep!  Was feeling a bit hungover to be honest – had a few beers with some lads I met on my Mekong Tour.  It was a guy from England, Lewis, last night of a one month holiday in [...]

Got back from a two day tour of the Mekong Delta this afternoon, was ok – but a well stomped tourist trail.  Was supposed to do 3 days but cut it short as it was not the experience I was wanting!  We got took to lots of markets (some floating) which were pretty similar and [...]

Today I visited the Cu Chi tunnels about 50KM out of Saigon.  I crawled through 20m of Viet Cong (VC) tunnel – not a particularly pleasant experience, it was pitch black and very hot.  The tunnel had been widened to allow westerners to pass though but it was still a very claustrophobic experience!  Not helped [...]

Arrived in Vietnam this afternoon, much nicer border crossing than on the Thai side thankfully!  Also the journey was mainly on tarmac roads so was relatively quick!  I found out today that Bangkok Air own the road from the Thai boarder to Siem Reap and because of this the road is not maintained to encourage [...]

Leaving Tom in bed (git) I caught the boat down the Mekong early this morning to get to Phnom Phen. All good the boat was quite speedy and the journey took 5 hours – more expensive than the bus but more interesting and less bumpy! Most of the westerners sat on the upper [...]

Jeez its hot here!!! If your reading this in the UK you probably dont want to know that, but to be honest its so hot its uncomfortable. Just walking to 500m to this internet cafe has left me dripping with sweat like some sort of fat lad! Its deffo hotter than Thailand, theres no breeze [...]

What can I say – what a journey and what an experience!
We left Chiang Rai at 6am to catch the flight to Bangkok, that was the easy bit!  We then arrived at Bangkok airport at 9:30 from where we took a taxi to the northern bus terminal.  We made it just in time to catch [...]

Today we went up to the Golden, which was good to see although it was very touristy!  Well the Thai side anyway, the Laos side was just a river bank!  We got the bus to Chang Saen which took an hour and a half, then we took a boat about 10km along the river to [...]

Arrived in Chiang Rai today – much smaller than Chiang Mai and a load quieter, which is nice.  Not so many tourists!  Got the VIP bus this morning, for 3 pounds I had a chair bigger than a normal sofa at home, it was class!  The 3 hour journey went very fast too which was [...]

Thanks for all the messages! Really good to hear from you all! You’ll be pleased to know we made it out of the jungle ok! Well it was an interesting few days…..
Firstly we made the typical British mistake of going for a quiet beer the night before the Trek, of course this [...]