Lovely food, lovely people.. lovely country!

So we arrived in Siem Reap at 6 in the morning, went to a backpackers called 'Mangalow'.
Unfortunately the check-in time was only at 1 o'clock.
So we decided to go to the floating villages in the meantime which were very impressive. Imagine people living on water, they even have supermarkets, shops, schools there. Literally a floating village.

The guide asked us to buy some food at the floating market for the orphans living at the school. Although we paid a way too much for the noodles we got we felt like doing something nice.

People there are very poor, they would come in their small boats to ours and beg..
At one stop we could see crocodiles and were allowed to hold a python!

Afterwards we went for breakfast/lunch. Yummi!

We were just glad to go back to the backpackers for a nap.. We shared a tiny but cute room with just 3 mattresses on the floor and a mosquito netting above. I actually had pretty much the worst shower in my life. Because it's dry season you would need to ask them to turn on the water. But even then I was forced to wash my hair with like three drops of water and I'm not even exhaggerating.

The next day the mission was to get up early, very early. That was indeed a mission.

We had planned to go to see the temples of Angkor and thought it would be nice to watch the sunrise there.

It was stunning although I was too tired to say anything about the view that time.

Apart from the sunrise the temples were amazing. I have to admit I found it pretty exhausting to walk that much and climb up everywhere though.

And the beautiful elephant we saw should not be forgotten.

After a really exhausting day at the temples we needed to relax in the evening, basically enjoing our supper - fried noodles with vegetables - and some beer at a bar with our new friend Tom from Australia.

This also means we'd only had a few hours of sleep when we started our journey to Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Vietnam. The trip wasn't too bad since we had already organized our visas in Pnomh Penh and didn't have to change the bus once.

We arrived in Ho-Chi-Minh quiet late in the evening and took a taxi to the backpacker we had booked in advance - first time booking something in advance.. just that they didn't have room for us. So they wanted to make us share one bed in another hotel for the same price. After some arguing we stayed in a very nice hotel room with one single and one double bed. Lucky us.

The next day we then moved to the dorm with shitty mattresses.

But there's nothing to complain about Ho-Chi-Minh-City.. when you've got used to the traffic.

And again the people are lovely. We met some students at a park who wanted to improve their english by talking to us. They could even say some sentences in german!

Yesterday we've been to the Vietnam War museum which was very educating and shocking at the same time. Now I actually get why everbody hates the US. Just joking.

You know when I mentioned I'm already used to be sweaty and dirty all the time. I reckon I was wrong. I had a scrape on my back which got infected now probably because I'm never clean for a long time..

It's not too bad though. It's just really sore touching it. So I can't lean back.

Gary's infected knee is much worse why we had to go to hospital today. Gary and Kennedy will have to stay here for some days so he can recover. We might be able to meet up in Ha Noi again.

Till then I'm very sad to leave my beloved travel mates behind and move on by myself.

My bus to Mui Ne is going to leave tomorrow in the morning. I'm all excited about the beach!

By the way I just had a Tofu burger for supper! I couldn't take any pictures, I was much too busy enjoying it!

already used to feel sweaty and dirty!

It's hard to realize I've been in Asia for already 2 weeks, especially because of not sleeping, showering or eating regulary.

When I arrived in Bangkok everything went pretty fast and easy, just like I had imagined.
Grabbed my backpack, received my stamp, found the underground. A woman told me which platform I had to go to and to get out at the endstation to find Khaosan Road.
There I asked two Thai men for the bus to Banglampoo, they showed me the bus station and wrote the numbers 503 and 509 on my hand.
After two hours of waiting there hadn't been one of those. But I met Stefan from Germany and in the end we caught the bus 159 to the Democracy Monument which is just around the corner of Khaosan Road. - This was a lot cheaper than taking a taxi from the airport!
We shared a room - small, but quiet clean, shower above the toilet.
Khaosan Road is literally a backpackers paradise, obviously heaps of tourists but you can get the everything you've ever dreamt of. It's a paradise for vegans, too!

Later we met Roby from the Netherlands who's in Bangkok often and we had incrediblz much beer - nice by the way! I had the crazy idea to visit a Pingpong Show - it's just one of those things which need to be done in Bangkok.. or not. I left half of my beer because I was scared to feel sick.

We definitelz had to drink more beer to get rid of those pictures in our head.

After an exhausting flight of 17 hours and a party night in Bangkok I fell into my bed at 3.

The next day Stefan and I decided to find a transport to Kho Phangan for the fullmoon party two days later.

At 7.30 pm our train - lowest class, fans, uncomfortable seats, open windows - left. 

After 14 hours we arrived in Surat Thani/

I hadn't been sleeping more than 2 of them, I still found it an interesting drive and I smoked a lot at the open door.

In Surat Thani a bus took us to the ferry to Kho Phangan which took another 4 hours.

Stupid as we were - or not - we hadn't booked any accomodation.. just before fullmoon.

We got into a random taxi and met two german girls, Svenja and Nina, who we went to their backpackers 'Bang Nem Kem' with and luckily we were able to stay in their bungalow. It only had room for three so I was supposed to sleep on a hummock outside.

We were also lucky meeting some cool english people at that place - Plain, Holly, Kennedy, Gary, Liz, Lee, Lora and Hanna.

Although I was fucking tired we joined them for a pool party in the evening.

The correct word to describe that night would probably be 'insane'. Heaps of wasted people dancing in and around a pool. Plus it rained like crazy.

The next day the weather was all beautiful again and we all had a chilled day at the beach. For supper I had a deliscious coconut milk soup with vegetables.

And then there was the Pre Fullmoon Party at the Haad Rin Beach which was only crazier that the previous night had been. Technically lots of people on a beach drinking beer and buckets of vodka, gin and whatever.

After we'd been dancing on the tables, they started to swing a big burning skipping rope and people would just run into it and jump. Some would fall and burn themselves. I first found it very sick, but then went for it aswell.

Long story short I lost everyone else and wanted to make my way home by myself when I noticed that I couldn't remember the name of the backpackers. So I just told some name which sounded similar to Bang Nem Kem to me and taadaaa.. the third taxi driver took me - with some other people - for the amount of money I was willing to pay. I only had to walk a few metres and fell asleep at 6.30 in the morning.

As you can imagine the next day was a beach day again.

Only in the late afternoon we went for Thai Curry and to buy our fullmoon outfit - bright colours, skin covered with paint.

The Fullmoon Party was pretty much like the day before, more crowded, people were more wasted and peed in the sea..

That night I decided to join Kennedy, Gary and Liz for Cambodia.

As lucky as I am I managed to pack my things and bought a bus-ferry-bus ticket to Bangkok ( with Gary's help) the next morning.

From Bangkok we were forced to take a taxi to the cambodian border Trat - Hat Lek because there was no bus leaving the same day. - I know it's ridiculous to be on a taxi for 4 or 5 hours, it's even more ridiculous it was still cheap though.

Crossing the border was not too difficult and took us about one hour.

A minivan - fucking uncomfortable for a 4 hours drive, especially if you have to share seats and are not able to lean back - took us to Sihanoukville at the South Coast of Cambodia.

We had two beautiful days at the beach of Sihanoukville and three nights at a pretty chilled backpackers called 'Utopia' which only costed us 1$ a night. - The dorms didn't have light and were quiet dodgy but you don't complain about a One Dollar Room.

Cambodian people are very friendly, at the beach they would come all the time to sell food, massages, manicures and bracelets, in a nice way though.

I bought one bracelet and a hairband from a lovely girl called Jojo and she gave me another one for free in my favourite colour.

The evenings still included beer, were much more more quiet though. First night we visited a really good concert and the other night we went to an amazing night market with live music and hippie atmosphere.

In Cambodia we use Tuk Tuks by the way which is a lot of fun, even if you have to wear masks in dusty areas.

Then it was already time to say goodbye to Liz. Kennedy, Gary and I caught a bus to Pnomh Penh in the morning. Although the bus drive was quiet exhausting again, I enjoyed my mango on the way!

I love Pnomh Penh althoug I don't really know how to describe it. Full streets, lots of markets and again the lovely Cambodians.

We've been to a nice nightmarket again having some tasty Mango-Pineapple Shakes.

The first day we went to see the prison and Genocide Museum - Cambodia has a cruel history, you should actually read about it, the prison also reminded me a lot of the concentration camps in Germany.

The killing fields afterwards were very rough aswell.

It still turned out to be a happy day when I made friends with kids who were first begging, but then I started to play with them and definitely had a long fun time together.

The next day we organized a Tuk Tuk to see the King's Palace and the Silver Pagoda which was very impressive to me. I hadn't seen anything like that before.. a lot of gold!

Another adventure was the sleeper bus to Siem Reap.

The next time I'll be telling about all beautiful Siem Reap and by the way I already have my visa for Vietnam!