So having visited a number of large asian cities we decided to get away from the smells, noise and fellow backpackers by getting a boneshaker of a bus to the small crumbling french colonial town of Kampot on the south coast of Cambodia. The heat and way of like in this part of the world makes the town feel very sleepy and laid back, which is great to experience and we have quickly taken to drinking happy hour cocktails whilst watching the sun go down. There a qui...

Having been really impressed with Vietnam, we crossed the land border into Cambodia, expecting more of the same nature, beauty, hospitality and people. Our first taste of cambodia came as we crossed the border at a road side cafe (this place makes the dodgey caravan cafes at the side of motorways look like michelin star restaurants) after two plates of rice, liver and pork bones we set off for Phnom Penh, which was made famous in the mid-1970's due to the Khmer R...

So After battling through hours of traffic we left the serenity of mui ne for the hectic crazy atmosphere of Saigon. Having only got into our room at 9pm we didn't see to much of the place but managed to book a tour and onward travel. Today we went on a tour of some local viet cong tunnels, my earlier comments about the people being tiny was confirmed when I nearly got stuck in this tiny tunnel 3m below ground. It was amazing and it's was topped off by shooting ...

We have spent the past 2 days in a lovely beach bungalow in mui ne, south Vietnam. We haven't done much apart from relax and eat lots of amazing seafood, including a huge crab and the best tiger prawns we have ever had! The people are a lot friendlier here and we went out one night with the owner of the bungalow ( a welsh Aussie) to a local beach restaurant. We're back on the bone shaker bus to ho chi Minh city this afternoon.

Heaving heard the weather was a bit iffy in the middle of the country when we first landed in Vietnam, we took a chance and decided to visit the areas most historic town - another unesco world heritage site. Having loved the weather of halong bay we were quickly reminded of the Manchester rain that we were so used - it's not stopped pouring down since we got here - apparently this is nothing though; the locals take great delight in showing us how high the floodin...