We left Laos with a little more than we had hoped for.... a big case of food poisioning. But we were lucky that we had already planned a well needed R+R trip to visit Chris (Steve's brother) near Nong Kai in Thailand, just across the boarder from Laos. So we spent three nights here recovering. We enjoyed doing very little in their newly built home, other than walking the buffalo to the field and back each day. Sam then talked Steve into spending more money as we...

So as soon as we hit the Laos border the funny events started as some stupid French girl started an uproar on the coach. She held the whole coach load of people up for 40mins to try and save herself $5 which you kind of dont have to pay. But considering the whole coach was paying it... she should have just done so too. She got back on the bus boasting that she'd won!! I'm sure she regreted this within seconds when two other English guys and us gave her some abuse...

Hello from Cambodia. So after a mammouth journey we finally arrived in Phom Penh the capital of Cambodia. We stayed in a lovely place called 'Me Mates Place' which was probably a little above our price range!! We spent two days in the city. On the first day we did the typical touristy things and had a look round Wat Phom (a temple) and the palace. We experienced our first unhelpful tuktuk driver... as we asked him to go to the silver pogoda, but whilst looking ro...