Vang Vieng turned from four nights to six but we did eventually drag ourselves away. Next it was onto Luang Prabang but that meant another Laos bus trip so another 8 hours of windy dirt roads and excessive horn use (plus the added fun of a mudslide on this one). All this was absolutely fine though and this was our last bus journey of the trip so we were happy when we got there. Luang Prabang proved to be a really interesting, as well as fun few days. Our firs...

It has been 2 weeks since we wrote our last blog so lots of news to tell you. From Nha Trang we moved up the coast to Hoi An on another "sleeper" bus. Hoi An meant tailoring, so our first afternoon was spent picking a tailor, which ended up being in the cloth market, which is essentially a warehouse of different materials stacked from floor to ceiling, quite an amazing sight. We spent 2 hours with our tailor called 'Forget Me Not' deciding what to get made. I s...

Another ten days have passed and we are now well and truly into our travels. Sihanoukville was a perfect place to relax and enjoy the sun but then it was on to learn a bit more about Cambodia than you can learn from a sun lounger. We headed back to Phnom Penh for what proved to be a fascinating 24 hours there. We went and visited the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek which was shockingly fascinating. Being neither historians or old enough to actually remember we k...

The first two weeks have flown by. We spent 2 days in Bangkok staying with the Kirkwoods. My first night in Asia involved a truely Thai welcome of take away pizza and American Idol with Amy and Michael! Anyway perhaps a more true to life version of Bangkok was seen the following day when we headed over to the weekend market which lived up to all expectations; streets upon streets of fake handbags and Beer related tops. It was a fleeting visit as we are going t...