Battambang, always makes me think of battenbergs for some reason. Haven traded in Ole in for Stephen for a new temporary travel mate, we go through the whole palaver of trying to just get on a bus to where we are going. Well, we finally got on the bus to Battambang and it was no longer looking hot and sunny. We made a brief stop on the way and I had to get straight back on the bus to avoid being sick as just outside the bus door was a bowl (makes me gag typing th...

So Cambodia is up next, I had been warned by Craig that the border crossing was a bit of a con and easier to do it yourself. So we did, we queued for the boats back over to the mainland and managed to hop on one before they ran out of space and left people stranded on the island. It was a free for all scramble to get on a boat. Then we hopped on the bus to the border, seemed easy so far. Well, at the border, where you must have dollars and small bills to help, yo...

Did I say it would be an easy 22 hours down to the 4000 Islands? This is SE Asia so of course not. So after a chilled day eating and packing, the 3pm pick up arrives and passes and I start to panic that we will miss the actual bus down to Vientiane. Finally a clapped out, rammed minibus arrives and my friend and I squeeze on and naturally there are still a couple more pick-ups to do. Eventually, about 10 minutes after the bus should have left the depot, we are dr...

It was 100,000 kip (£8) to get the minivan from Phonsavanh to Vang Vieng which took 7 hours through the mountains and local villages and wasn't as bumpy as all the other roads I'd been on in Laos. From the bus station I grabbed a tuk tuk which dropped me off at Sengkeo Guesthouse that I had already booked for two nights but it turned out it would be cheaper to just turn up than book in advance. After initially been given the wrong room, as the old woman didn't r...

Having only spent one full day in Phonsavanh to see the Plain of Jars, this is a relatively short post. As is becoming usual it was a early start to wait for the tuk tuk pick up to take me to the bus station. Fair play to the driver to managed to squeeze 11 people on to his seven person tuk tuk, it was certainly snug. Once dropped off at the bus station a few kilometers away, we dumped our bags on the minivan and got a bit confused about not being given any tic...