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Right now I’m in Luang Prabang, which is very beautiful but the downside was that I was sick for all the time we were there. I was in bed for three days so there’s not much to talk about 😰😴 In Luang Prabang there was a beautiful night market that was very close to whereContinue reading “Laos – Sick, sick, sick!”

We leave Siem Reap after a few short days, having survived the temple visits and enjoyed the hotel & pool, and take a bus down to Phnom Penh. We’re only here for a day but First impressions are of a sophisticated modern city. Although 80% of vehicles are motorbikes, I’m struck by the quality ofContinue reading “The Killing Fields”

We take the short flight from Luang Prabang to Siem Reap – as the aircraft approaches it’s already clear that we’ve left the limestone karsts of Laos behind and this part of Cambodia at least is much flatter terrain. We take a tuk-tuk to our guesthouse the Golden Banana – there’s a delicious looking swimmingContinue reading “The temples of Angkor Wat”

Squeezing only a brief 2 weeks to see Cambodia has been mistake, as I am discovering now. We land in Siem Reap for 3 days. Angkor Wat is part of our reason to be here, the other part, is to catch up with my lovely friend and Millie’s godmother Shunmay. She lives part of herContinue reading “Cambodia 1 – The Jungle takes Over”

In Vang Vieng (Laos) we went to a place called the Blue Lagoon which is a natural pool, a turquoise blue colour, with branches of trees that you could jump off into it and a swing that you could swing out on, let go and land in the water. I jumped off the high branchContinue reading “Laos – Vang Vieng awesomeness!”

In Siem Reap we went to a hotel with a swimming pool that was really good and it was a really nice temperature, we were playing around which was good fun. When we went swimming Millie’s godmother Shunmay came around and played with us. We had competitions where we stood on people’s shoulders and battled.Continue reading “Cambodia – Chewy pork and pepper sauce”

Pokhara was really fun and we did lots of interesting things, like walking up to the Stupa. We took a rowing boat over to an island and we started walking up to a Buddhist Stupa. When we got to the top, we stayed and played and messed around on the grass. Gabriel had an ideaContinue reading “Nepal – Goodbye lovely friends”

We drive from Vang Vieng up to  Luang Prabang. It’s a 6-hr dramatic journey in a neat little mini bus, through some magnificent scenery, more of the same, these incredible karsts, the river and thick impenetrable looking jungle lining the sides. We stop for a loo break at a roadside village, where the market isContinue reading “Laos 3 – Bombs, Bamboo and Bicycles”

We went on a bus from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang. When we got there we had to negotiate a good price for a tuk-tuk to our hotel. When we got to our hotel we found bicycles and rode them round the place – it was super fun. They gave us orange juice that wasContinue reading “Luang Prabang fun”