In the evening I decided to go and get some dinner and then went for a couple of drinks. I went to a bar with a couple of groups of locals sat having their dinner. They left shortly after I arrived – they had finished eating before you start getting any ideas! I got talking […]
Read the rest of Thursday 15th May – Phnom Penh – that evening
So after getting (probably unfairly) disillusioned with my previous guesthouse I decided to move to a different area of town. Having previously been at the lake side area I decided to move closer to the town centre and found a place by the river side Phnom Penh is very different from Siem Reap. It’s a […]
Read the rest of Thursday 15th May – Phnom Penh
So I eventually arrived in Phnom Penh on the bus in the evening. I headed to the lakeside area of the city on the recommendation of someone at the guesthouse in Siem Reap. When I arrived and checked into the guesthouse the room I was shown seemed very small but I can cope with that […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 14th May -Phnom Penh
So in my last entry I vowed that I would visit the temples at Angkor and I did so on the Sunday. I had originally planned to cycle to the temples but as I only had the one day (as I am allegedly in a hurry) and with the temperatures at the time, I decided […]
Read the rest of Sunday 11th May – Wednesday 14th May – Siem Reap
On the Wednesday I explored the town and went to the local market. As soon as I walked in I realised that this could be another place that I get stuck and end up spending too much money. I bought some awesome jewellery, bags, trousers and earrings and then decided that I really needed to […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 7th May – Saturday 10th May – Siem Reap
In the morning I woke up feeling decidedly achey but couldn’t really decided what was ascribeable to the terrible bus journey and what was the result of a literal night on the tiles. Our “pick-up” was actually a random motorbike that you had to pay for. I apparently had a strange ticket and was taken […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 6th May – The journey to Siem Reap
I always have mixed feelings when I leave a place and it’s even weirder when you’re leaving a country. I absolutely loved Laos which is perhaps why I spent longer there than I had planned. Well that and not being able to get out of Luang Phabang! The Laos people were generally very friendly and […]
Read the rest of Monday 5th May – Leaving Laos
On the Saturday I headed back over the river. This time I wasn’t the only Westerner. There was a sweet American girl called Nora who was working in India and an American guy called Dan. I, perhaps somewhat unfairly, named Dan, “Dan, ADHD American man” in my head. I’m sure he was lovely but Oh […]
Read the rest of Saturday 3rd May and Sunday 4th May – Champasak to the Four Thousand Islands
I’ve just realised that I published the last page in different colours. I’ll try not to do that with this one but you never know! So, back in Champasak. I woke up and went and had breakfast at a lovely restaurant overlooking the river. I was planning on cycling to the temple (the main […]
Read the rest of Friday 2nd May – Champasak
I absolutely loved Luang Phabang. It was such a quaint riverside town with an amazing combination of architecture from very French colonial style buildings to traditional Laos Wats. I was also quite keen to leave so was relatively less worried about using Laos airlines than I perhaps should have been. It was the smallest plane […]
Read the rest of Thursday 1st May – Escaping Luang Phabang