Hi everyone,
My tour has just finished and monty and I are staying in Hanoi for a couple of days just to chill out,then we are off back to Bangkok where we will be meeting up with Matt and Abbey who we met on our trip up!

Since I wrote last, we have completed the Cambodian part of our tour, changed leaders(I'll miss The alot, he's a legend, but our new leader Lam is pretty ace too!) and finally finished of the whole tour when we arrived after a 14hour train journey, which with the help of a pack o cards and a few bottles of wine just flew by!!lol

Over our last few days in Cambodia we saw some truely amazing sights. These included the Prisons in Phnom Pen where the victims of the Pol Pot regime were taken and toutured, the killing fields just outside Phnom Penh which were horrendous. As we walked around and saw the many, many mass graves (8700 buried at this site alone) nobody spoke as the sheer scale of what had happened and the pure saddistic nature of it sank in! there was a tree we were told was used as parents watched, to murder their kids by swinging them by the ankles and striking their heads against it! Evil is the only way to describe it, pure evil!

We also went to a floating city, which was in the middle of a huge lake! There were schools, shops, churches and thousands of homes floating miles out from the shore! These people were extremely poor and we had taken all the toiletries from our hotel to give to them.

The food has been really good and I have actually been trying alot of new things! Milk fruit, water beatles, frog, new sauces and stir fries and (shock Horror) Vegetables!!!!lol

It's been a really good trip and we have met a load of really cool people on the way (especially to Scandinavian ladies in Hoi An!!). The Vietnamese part of the trip has been great with us visiting The Cui Chi tunnel system in the south of the country which was used to fight against the "American Devils". This was also the same day as we got to drink rice wine,from a bottle containing a Cobra and a scorpian, and I had my first go of an AK47!! Minted!!

Mony and I have been on a good few tuk tuk, motorbike and cyclo tours in different cities like Saigon (where I swear there are more motorbikes than people), Hoi An (Where we all cycled to the beach and swam in the South China Sea, it was really refreshing and warm but it tasted rotten!!!) and finally Hanoi (which just seems like Glasgow...big, busy and it's constantly raining!!!) My favourite had to be the first night in Vietnam tho. We had just come off the boat which had brought us up the Meechang river, got to our small hotel and jumped on the back of some motorbikes that proceeded to take us up the local mountain. From here we saw one of the most spectacular sunsets I will ever see. We sat in hammocks as the red sun lit up the surrounding country side for miles! Beautiful.

There have been a few good nights out with the people on our tour and we feel like we've know each othe for years. Monty and I have also had some really kind offers from them to put us up when we reach Oz (cheers Tanya, Lisa, Christa, Wayne, Meegan and Lauren! We'll be there soon!!!)

Well I'd better be off, but I'm sure I'll be writting another wee postcard soon (I may even have figured out how to put some of my hundreds of photos up for you to see, theres a few bumpers!!!)

Missig you all, big love,

Donald