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Of the four countries visited I really came for Vietnam as it was the one I’d heard the most about, even if mostly through the movies. Thailand I’d visited before and Cambodia was purely required to visit Angkor Wat. The one I knew the least about turned out to be the most interesting [...]
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Took a 35 minute flight from Siem Reap to Bangkok, arriving in town on the same day as the World Tapioca Conference 2009. Fatigue from the last few weeks set in so did almost nothing all day then headed out for a drink in the very fancy Vertigo bar atop the Banyan Tree [...]
Late start where I discovered the girls had crashed in my room. Should have packed pyjamas.
Flight to Chang Mai took a while then a cramped 2 hour cab ride to the border where we stayed the night in a huge teak manor house overlooking the Mekong river. We could hear a huge party going on [...]
Went on a standard city tour round the Kings Palace and then a boat ride through the back waterways of the city, past peoples houses and back doors.
[Rest of the day was Rated 18: Sorry Josie, look away now] Sitting on a boat doing nothing was surprisingly tiring, so we retired to a Dim Sum [...]
At security it’s very noticeable they’re checking everyone by race. The only white guy that got checked was someone who thought it would be a good idea to go through a metal detector in cowboy boots with a two-inch metal heel. He got through security but was shortly carted off by the fashion police instead, [...]
Flew into Bangkok, then straight up to Chang Mai where we boarded a small raft that carried us up river to the meeting point. It was only a group of 5 and immediately divided up into me and a canadian girl called Sara, a married welsh couple and the scary ex-army psycho. The couple kept [...]
