Phil here, We finished the last blog about to fly to Phnom Penh. After an hour and a half flight, we landed in the capital of Cambodia. We had already looked at a couple of guesthouse options so jumped in a tuk tuk to take us to the riverside area. The driver had to pull over because of "engine trouble" after 5 minutes but told us not to worry as his "brother" would take us the rest of the way. The idea being that the original driver gets the fare but the b...

So…..where were we? Day 1 of the slow boat down, 1 to go. Spent the night in Pabang, a little island that basically caters to the slow boat river trade. Tried to dodge the "slow boat crew" of young backpackers who drank all day long and played rowdy drinking games (and that's how we know we're old….)but ran into them at the one club/lounge/bar in town. Thank goodness they wore themselves out and day 2 on the river was a little more mellow. And then the...

Our second installment was written on a slow boat in Laos. After Chaing Mai but before Laos, we spent a few days in a fantastic town called Pai. After our trek in Chaing Mai, we arranged to take a government mini bus for the 5 hour journey north to Pai. Our numbers have grown to 7 now, so its me and Miranda, Dan and Rachel, Remi, Daisy and Lisi. Amazingly we manage to find the safest bus driver in all of Thailand, it is a very comfortable journey up into...

The second installment... We are now sitting on a slow boat in loas about to depart for Luang Prabang which will take us 2 days and 1 night, but before all that.... My last entry ended with us booked on a jungle trek. We leave chaing Mai with our guide eggy along with dan and Rachel and start heading west into the jungle. After an hour or so , we stop to pick up nguya, a local guide who speaks few words in English. We drive for another 30 minutes and st...

Well, this is the first installment of our 3 month trip to Thailand and a bit more of South East Asia. We arrived in Bangkok on Thursday night (11th October) after roughly 29 hours of Traveling. We flew from Toronto to Chicago, then to Tokyo and onto Bangkok. We arrived in Thailand not having slept much to find that our backpaks had made it all the way with us! I was very supprised and extremely happy about that! After a 30 minute taxi ride we arrive at our pr...