What a waste of time Sihanoukville was, especially after all the effort I put in to getting there. As soon as I set foot in the place I knew I wouldn't be there long. Less than 24 hours as it turns. Saying that, every cloud has a silver lining and I ended up having a superb meal in a Cambodian karaoke restaurant. I'd stumbled upon it as I was tr...

my bus to phnom penh was pretty scary. first of all, it left way to early, and then the guy waas on the horn the whole time for no reason, we almost crashed into so many things and the bus almost tipped over once too when it went a bit off the road. i met this girl on the bus who was telling me about the train in india, and how she froze her ass...

Dom and Clo have been amazing hosts and I really hope they fulfill their promise of coming to visit me in Montreal... though I don't know if I'll be much of a hostess in negative 40deg Celsius weather (which is what Clo would like to experience after living in Cambodia for the past year in tropical humid heat!) To thank my lovely friends, we wen...

Cambodia is a whole different world from anything than I have experienced. It reminds me a bit of Vietnam, but only in the small roadside shops, lack of serious development sort of way. Cambodia is by far (in my eyes) poorer than Vietnam and it breaks my heart to see all of the people who don't have anything, or very little anyway. Children slee...

Yesterday, I bought a 35-cent tube of super-glue to fix the heel of my shoe. This glue is probably not available in Australia. It wouldn't be legal. When I opened it, white vapour rose from the tube. When I squirted some onto the shoe, I could hear it hiss. It dried and held fast in seconds. That's one advantage of living in the developing world...

Since leaving Savanaket we headed down to the south of Laos to Pakse to embark on a three day Hell's Angel's motorbike trip, Well not quite, but we headed for some waterfalls and lots of local villages! Every time we went through a village the kids would go crazy waving and running along with us while trying to dodge their livestock of pigs, dog...

Caught the bus from HCMC yesterday morning to Cambodia - it was only just over five hours which really wasnt to bad for bus travel in Asia. Met two welsh girls on the bus who are now in their 5th month in Asia and still loving it. We ended up staying at the same guesthouse and drinking beer lao all night. Elisa and Dax arrived this morning so i ...

After a day of serious topics, a day of casual sightseeing was a welcome change. Having seen the sad sights, and arriving at the royal palace just in time for it to close for lunch, our driver suggested a trip to Mekong Island. Mekong Island sits about 10 miles outside the city up the Mekong River. An hour ride by tuk tuk and a short ferry cross...

We had a lazy start today as I think all were tired still from the no-sleeping between Bangkok and here. We decided that as we only really had the afternoon we would do the Killing Fields and S-21 museum. We went down to the bar and spoke to the guys that worked there. We decided that we should first get our Visas sorted for Vietnam and it's man...

Missed the morning bus in Saigon and made the express to Cambodia a little later...a 6 hour journey. The bus wasn't nearly full. For most of the bumpy ride Dylan and myself were willingly treated to the entertaining banter of a cracked Australian war veteran/6 year Cambodian resident. This guy was a character beyond comprehension. He was heading...