Indochina Adventure

Mountainous Laos naturally possesses myriad waterfalls, cascades and cataracts; here are a few of our favourites that you’re likely to see on one of our small group tours to Laos

Going off-the-beaten-track half way round the World with people you don’t know, food you’ve never tried before and what appear to be extreme weather conditions. What can possibly go wrong?

A few tips on how to get the best out of your small group tour to Southeast Asia

Capital Cities of Cambodia Off the top of our heads we’ve come up with no less than 11 different capital cities of Cambodia over the course of some 1500 years – although we may well have overlooked another one or two – while several of these sites have been the capital on more than one separate occasion. Many of the…

Vientiane We’ve run through our favourite see and dos in  Vientiane before so this post is more of an overall description and brief rundown on the history of the laid-back Lao capital.(1) Although of course growing, it is still by some distance the smallest of the various Southeast Asian capitals with an estimated 215,000 inhabiting the downtown area, increasing to…

Angkor and Angkor Wat On our small group tours to Cambodia we often see, amongst first time visitors, a certain amount of predictable confusion between the names Angkor and Angkor Wat. They do, of course, refer to two different sites, so here’s a brief explanation on the differences between Angkor and Angkor Wat. It can certainly be somewhat confusing for…

Indochine, as the French called it, comprised 5 regions or territories; Annam, Cambodia, Cochin-china, Laos and Tonkin

Cambodian World Heritage Site As of July 2025, UNESCO has inscribed a 5th Cambodian World Heritage Site to their list with the creation of a Cambodian Memorial Sites entry. The listing combines three separate sites: Choeung Ek – more commonly known to visitors as the Killing Fields, Tuol Sleng or S21 – the Genocide Museum, plus a third site simply…

The huge walled and moated city of Angkor Thom was the capital of the Khmer empire from the 10th to 14th centuries

Laos – land crossings and airports A brief rundown on the various land border crossings and international airports used on our small group tours to Laos. Airports Vientiane – Wattay International Airport Lao’s capital Vientiane is the arrival point for most, but not all, of our Laos small group tours including;  Highlights of Northern Laos, our Laos and Vietnam tour…

A morning temple hunting expedition around Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

Cambodia’s Beng Melea; chaotic, decaying ancient ruins and rampant tropical vegetation, is today a spectacular synthesis of man’s handiwork and untamed nature.