16/03/11 to 09/04/11 Cambodia - Phnom Penh to Koh Kong to Sihanoukville to Kratie to Siem Reap Cruising by tuk tuk round Phnom Penh, Cambodia's recently reformed capital, is often like been driven through a thousand years of street, where there is a contrast between the highly familiar and the truly exceptional; RangeRover sports' pull up at traffic lights alongside ox carts carrying livestock to market, mopeds being driven by mere 10 year olds, taxi's spee...

04/03/2011 to 16/03/2011 - Vietnam - Quy Nhon to Dalat to Mui Ne to Saigon You would have thought that having spent 12 weeks galavanting around South East Asia, the sacred Buddhist beliefs on the sanctity of life would have had a profound effect on Micki. This was obviously not the case as she systematically set about murdering the countless cockroaches and insects of the night that plagued our mountainous and winding bus journey from Quy Nhon to Dalat. That...

18/02/11 to 03/03/11 - Hanoi to Sapa to Hoi An Crossing the road in Vietnam is a thrill seeking event in itself, sometimes even a major tourist spectacle that often defies belief. Get it wrong and your another statistic. It could be in fact, a form of suicide, it is a genuine leap of faith. Hesitate and you'll be hit and at best, you may well be retrieving your limbs from 30 yards down the road. Panic and run, and you'll be sending hoards of speeding moped l...

31/01/11 - 17/02/11 - Guilin to Yangshuo to Hong Kong Being mugged by a pesky 15 year old boy is not something I really wanted to add to my personal CV, imagine the ripping! We had decided to be true to our traveller ways, i.e. be as scrupulous as possible and therefore stay the night at Xian airport terminal to await our morning flight to Guilin. However, what we didn't realise was that this small, yet shiny new airport terminal was the stomping ground of eve...

Beijing to Xian and onwards to Guilin - 23/01/11 to 30/01/11 Wow, how can Japan and China be neighbourly close, yet be so wildly different! Foolishly, we have only just realised China is a huge huge country, as we have taken one very interesting 14 hour train journey, a 3 hour flight south and we have only just arrived two thirds of the way down the country. Oh and its still fffffffreezing!! I suppose thats why it is low season here at the moment. Although, ...