Hi all. very very quick message as we don't have much time...just to let you all know that we are all perfectly safe despite the typhoon hovering over Vietnam at the minute. In fact we are headed up to Hoi An tonight on an overnight train so everything is going ahead and no need to panic. it simply means we may not get to do some of the things on offer due to flooding and we may not get to go to Halong Bay. But our tour leader has been through 5 typhoons before a...

Hello all! Eventful week this week. on wed we went to the genocide museum and the killing fields in phnom penh which was very emotional for everyone. our guide was very graphic but very informative...sometimes you need to get the full picture for the message to get through, no matter how upset it makes you. that night our guide invited us to his home where his wife provided a huge and fantastic meal for us all..including tarantula which both laura and i tried!!!!...

Hello again all! free internet access at this hotel which is very useful! as you can see we are in cambodia at the moment and have just had the most fantastic day! we visited the temples at Angkow Wat whih were just breathtaking! amazing that they took 600 years to build all in all and the stones used were carried rom 60km away! everything was just so massive its hard to take it all in and imagine a king living there. after that we took a boat trip out to tonle s...

Hi all! only a quick message to say we are starting our 30 day tour around Cambodia, Vietnam and Loas tomorrow and apparently will not have a lot of time to access internet and keep in touch so this may be all you hear for a while! Had our first day in Bangkok today and it has been eventful! We explored a few places and then a massive monsoon hit and we were stuck in a tuk tuk so obviously got absolutely drenched and were almost hit by a fallen tree which landed ...

Hi all! only a quick message to say we are starting our 30 day tour around Cambodia, Vietnam and Loas tomorrow and apparently will not have a lot of time to access internet and keep in touch so this may be all you hear for a while! Had our first day in Bangkok today and it has been eventful! We explored a few places and then a massive monsoon hit and we were stuck in a tuk tuk so obviously got absolutely drenched and were almost hit by a fallen tree which landed ...