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Thinking that we had 2 days left to fit in everything we wanted to do in Tokyo, one day at Disneyland and a visit to the fish market followed by an early night in preparation for our early flight on Wednesday, we noticed that the fish market was closed on the Monday so headed off to Disneyland instead - only to get to the gates and realise that it was sold out due to a National Holiday - Doh!

As we couldn’t get back into the magical kingdom we headed back into central Tokyo and wandered around Akihabara - Electric Town.  It was sensory overload with shop after shop of electrical goods blaring out catchy tunes and tempting us to spend our remaining yens - unfortunately there was no room in the backpacks!

So on Tuesday morning we got up super early and went of to the largest fish market in the world.  There should be a warning sign for sleepy-heads here - there were a few near misses with the carts that speed around the market delivering fresh fish from stall to stall.  It was so interesting to see where all of that fish in Japan actually comes from!  We were surrounded by so many different types of fish but especially eye-catching were the enormous frozen tunas - they were as big as me!

I felt a bit queasy to say the least after walking through a market of fish for about 45 minutes I didn’t think I was going to manage to eat any sushi but after a few walks around the block we stopped into a sushi place where I had the most amazing sushi ever!  It was great to know that this was as fresh as it could ever get - I think that our breakfast could have been auctioned off only an hour or so earlier!

After washing down my sushi with some green tea we headed off on the tokyo metro to Disneyland!  I was pretty excited after the disappointment of not being able to get in the day before.

We managed to get on most rides that we wanted to despite the park being really busy with Japanese people taking an extended holiday.  It rained non-stop from around noon but we didn’t let that dampen our spirits and still managed to sing and dance along with the parade which was Halloween themed.

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Unfortunately the night parade was cancelled due to all of the rain so it was off home exhausted and sleepy to catch a few hours sleep before our flight to Hong Kong the next day…

We are now in Siem Reap in Cambodia. After Japan we stopped over in Hong Kong for 4 days and had great fun hanging out with Aideen even although she tried to kill us with a Saturday morning hike!

From there we flew to Bangkok and spent 9 days waiting for our visas for Vietnam. Then for real adventure we made our way overland from Bangkok to Cambodia. We crossed the border with no hassles on Wednesday and then spent 2 nights in Battambang where we took a Khmer cooking class and went to a circus performance by local under-priviledged children.

We travelled by boat from Battambang to Siem Reap then spent yesterday temple hopping at Angkor Wat.

We have just checked ourselves into a really nice hotel/B&B and had a massage this afternoon then a swim in our pool - luxury after 1 month’s travels!

We’re planning on heading to an internet cafe after dinner so more pics & stories to follow later.

OK - we are in the internet cafe now but there is no usb connections so no photos for now…