After the sedate morning boat ride around the markets the afternoon meant for another form of transport an express speedboat to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). The four hour journey was like being on a rolleroaster we were thrown about all over the place. The ever changing scenery flew by our window, barges painted with huge eyes on the front carrying cargo ranging from water melons to gravel dredged up by massive floating platforms...not to mention the floating petr...

After trapsing around Can Tho Riverside for a while, we found a hotel with a cheap fan room and started to get our bearings Nik was pretty unsteady still and we took it easy, in addition I was beginning to feel horrendous I didnt complain tho!! That evening western food was required we thought that would do the trick. It didnt. I had to get back to the hotel very quickly with Nik supporting me and I became very familiar with the bathrom for the next few hours an...

Coming to the end of Cambodia......The 25th Jan had arrived and it wastime to head for the Border with Vietnam. A new border had recently opened and was only 3 hours away, this piece of good fortune meant the journey should be relatively painless; we hired a private taxi as we didn't have any information whatsoever on what to expect!! At nine o'clock our carriage arrived - except that Cinderella, the three uglysisters and a wrecking crew had been the previous...

After the bustle of Phnom Phen, we headed down the coast by local bus to Cambodia's top up and coming beachside resort, Sihanoukville! The local bus trip was again one of those life and death moments being hurled about whilst the driver beeped his horn every 10 seconds at everything and anything that moved......at one point he must have been telling the TARMAC he was there as there was nothing in site for miles....horns are all the rage over here!! The scenery o...

And so to the 19th we left by bus to reach the capital Phnom Penh, the countryside reminding us of Africa a dry flat barren land stretching out in the distance. The city has to be one of the craziest places I have ever been too, we were thinking of hiring mopeds but after trying to walk around this madhouse we have decided against it. Traffic is just like Rome but 10 times worse!! Nik says it reminds her of Beijing but madder! Our gu...