Dear all,After a crazy time in Koh Phangan we headed to Phuket to recharge our batteries. We had an terrible journey with the most amount of bus changes so far, 6 altogether, sometimes we were only on the bus for 10 minutes before we were transferred to the next. After 10 hours we arrived just outside Phuket for our final change, people to Phuket Town on 1 bus and people to the coast of Phuket on another, what the travel agency failed to inform us was that if you...

Dear all,Sorry we've been a bit lax lately but people to see and adventures to be had. From Cambodia we went back to Bangkok where we went to have a look around the palace. What an amazing place, talk about bling, entire buildings made completely of gold. Walking round we saw the guards on duty, obviously one had had a heavy night as he was asleep standing on his platform!Ummmm what else happened while we were in Bangkok, of course there was a military coup, ...

We didn't think that it could get any better than Vietnam and then we hit Cambodia, and what a welcome committee greeted us. We got the bus from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh and we were the only westerners on there. Getting off the bus there must of easily been around 100 Cambodians waiting to get you on their tuk tuk or to take you to their guest house. We have a system when we get off a bus, Carlos goes 1st to get the rusksacks and I get off with the hand lugg...

They say the best way to travel in Vietnam is with your eyes closed, and after travelling nearly 1800km and several near head on collisons with rather large trucks I swear never to moan about National Express again. Well yes we are now in Ho Chi Minh, the place where everyone is your friend, for a price. I can't say that I've enjoyed Ho Chi Minh much, it was a lot bigger than I thought with more people trying to rip you off constantly, it became rather tiring ...

From Hanoi we have slowly been making our way south to Ho Chi Minh City. We bought an open bus ticket giving us the flexibility to hop on and off where we like. 1st stop was Nimh Binh which was basically a ghost town. We walked around on the first night looking for a bar and found nothing but signs for Karoke, so making the best of a bad situation we decided to stop at one for a drink, we were lead into somebody's front room which they had set up for westeners to...