The Phare Ponleu Selpak Circus combines fun, acrobatics, juggling, contortion and humour while at the same time gives a helping hand to Cambodia's poor families.

Kanchanaburi is Thailand's third largest province lying 130-kilometres west and a comfortable 2-hour drive from Bangkok. The Province is rich in rainforest, lakes, rivers and wildlife, as well as ethnic minority people, and makes for some scenic as well as challenging biking.

Learn the Indonesian art of batik painting, study traditional Indonesian dance and theatre, learn to make the highly intricate carved masks worn by Lagong dancers and submerge yourself into two of Indonesia's most powerfully independent identities: the Javanese, the 'rulers' of Indonesia, and the gentle, aesthetic Balinese.

Discover Cambodia by bicycle in this cross-country exploration of Southeast Asia's last great unexplored kingdom.