Blog That Wasn't

It turns out that the biggest 'muppet' moment of our trip so far wasn't one we made on the spur of the moment whilst getting off a bus, tired after hours of travelling. Instead, it was a decision we could have corrected at any time during our planning in the run up to this trip! When we looked at flights, we found that Air Asia didn't fly from Siem Reap to Bangkok, it only flew from Siem Reap to Kuala Lumpur or Phnom Penh to Bangkok. As we weren't going to get time to visit Phonm Penh, the flight to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Hong Kong was the obvious choice, turns out we should have thought more carefully. After dragging our bags full of mountaineering equipment around South America (bear in mind this is equipment we won't need until the end of our trip in Nepal) the realisation hit us that it would be much easier just to leave it all in Bangkok and travel round South East asia with our small backpacks. Of course this would mean returning to Bangkok and then flying onto Hong Kong rather than going to Kuala Lumpur. As it was only a five hour drive from Siem Reap to Phonm Penh, turns out we could easily get there before the flight, and so the correct option all along was get the bus to Phnom Penh and fly to Hong Kong, something we only realised during the trip and so then had the hassle of changing all the tickets!

Anyway, in summary, we changed the flights, ended up back in Bangkok rather than flying to Kuala Lumpur, and so there is no blog entry for Kuala Lumpur!

Mandi has, however, been to Kualal Lumpur in the past and so asked me to add that it is a really nice place and worth visiting. Although saying that, there have been places we have visited on this trip that Mandi has been to before that have changed completely (e.g. Lima airport apparently resembled a war zone last time Mandi was there, now it resembles the Trafford Centre!) so take it with a pinch of salt!

Steve