Next morning we had a strange experience with the hotel reception calling on the radio for someone to check our that blasted "mini bar" fir use, eventually he got into the hotel car park and headed for the airport. All checked in but unfortunately we could not get the luggage routed directly to hogine min city (shanghai) - but at Bangkok to save having to go through immigration to just collect our luggage off the carousel we arranged for Turkish airlines to co...

We started the day at the hotel with the normal alarm call and the resulting plan to be at the hotel reception by 8 o'clock by the your operator - but after ten minutes with no show of the minibus we realised that we had set are alarms one hour early - so I came up with a grate emergency plan of going for a coffee with Clare by the hotel pool which had it's own version of Starbucks, it made a nice change to look out of the window to a vista of colour rhododendron...

Next day we travelled around the ankor what temple region visiting most of the temples that appear to be dated from 900 to 1300 ad to the most famous one Angkor Wat which the sheer scale was bewildering and although the Hindu/buddha religion is no longer practiced if you let your imagination loose to what it must of been like is fascinating. We all stopped for lunch including our guide at a shack with tables in the middle of the jungle and despite his assuranc...

On leaving the airport we were gritted by the driver from the hotel holding the grandest name board I've ever seen - the journey to the hotel was made through recently built roads that led tourists through to a major thoroughfare of all the five star hotels. On checking in we were greeted to a 20th century newly built hotel that had been made to look like a Edwardian/colonial facade. On entering the room it was styled. With low floor level furniture except for...

On arrival at Phuket airport we booked into Bangkok airways for the flight through to Siem Reap in Cambodia. Johns planning was exact as predicted they booked us and our luggage all the way through. the main difference is when we changed planes at Bangkok from an airbus to a T24 twin propeller plane, this only seated around 80 people when full but on our flight their was only 20 people. We set off on time and generally stayed quite close the the ground. On arr...