Don Det Stories


I can drink it, just don't try to walk in it!

This trip, I decided to start off calmly – no 20minute dashes to the airport to be the last in the check-in queue and just make my plane – no, I’m gonna have a ‘relaxed’ weekend in Phnom Penh, watching the Dragon Boats race across the riverfront from the Mekong to the Tonle Sap. So, the capital’s 2 million swelled to double as many Cambodian’s flocked ...


20 hour journey to the 5000 Islands

We started our first coach journey at about 8pm.The coach looked in pretty good condition and was one of the nicest ones we've been on yet.We didn't feel too bad in the morning, but woke up to the coach breaking down just 15 minutes before we arrived at our first major destination Paxkse, and after being on it for 10 hours it was just typical, but rathe...


Lao Wow Wow

Hello again and a big How Bis to Everyone, Here is the latest Laodown on what we've been a-doing with each other. After our Longest Day in Burma, we left Thailand AGAIN the next day - this time by boat across the Mekong from the small town of Chiang Khong to the very small town of Huay Xai in Laos where we were stamped in by the laugh-a-decade I...


Four thousand islands

luck, grace, fate, destiny or whatever you want to call it intervened today. we were at the bus station, bags on the roof of a crowded songthaew, three of us decided to leave and take the bus, the driver said NO, we ended up taking the thing and had a pleasant albeit slightly ass numbing journey (only to find out the bus tipped over and killed 2 people)...