All roads lead to Siem Reap

No trip to Siem Reap is complete without a visit to Angkor Wat. Anyone other than a returning visitor to Cambodia can simply not get away failing to see the worlds largest religious monument – it really is a MUST SEE! We had arrived in Siem Reap after yet another gruelling 8 hour bus journey, this time making our way from Phnom Penh in the south of Cambodia. We were once again subjected to some rather ballsy driving …

How to travel from Vietnam to Cambodia by bus?

In August 2015, after spending a great few days in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, my friend and I decided that it was time to hit the road again and head to Cambodia for the next stop on our Asian adventure. Whilst in Ho Chi Minh we’d managed to break both our Couch Surfing virginities and had been staying with an incredible girl named Van Cola who had not only been truly hospitable but she’d …

How to get from Hanoi to HaLong Bay: a wheelchair users experience.

As we approached the start of a suspension bridge that connects Vietnam’s north-east mainland to the small island of Tuan Chau, the bus we’d been travelling on for the past three and half hours came to an abrupt stop. My friend and I were then ushered off and handed our bags; it had an air of being dumped on the side of the road about it. I had to remind myself that getting off the …