I've been many many miles since my last entry so bear with me as I will need to rack my brain for all the things that have happened. From Phnom Pehn I headed north to a small non-descript town called Kratie - famous only for the irrawaddy dolphins. So naturally I found a boatman with his beautiful longtail boat (left) to take me out on the Mekong to find these very rare creatures ... which we did. I even managed to video them but it will take 20 mins to download it so you'll have to wait for that award winning footage.
I then had an arduous journey north to the Laos border which took hours and hours and hours - lots of sitting around watching Khmer people go about their life - still being amazed by the amount of stuff that one human can transport on a moped and chatting in pigeon english with locals. The final part was a boat ride from the mainland in the very south of Laos to one of the 4,000 islands, Don Det. The first thing that strikes you is that there are no moto drivers, tuk tuks or anything like wanting to whisk you away to their preferred guesthouse ... the next is that you may possibly just have found heaven on earth - beaches, waterfalls, canoing, bamboo bungalows, electricity only for a couple of hours a day, cycling through villages as yet untouched by tourism. All this is set to change as the concrete posts are on the main beach ready to bring electricity and progress to the island .....
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