South-East Asia 2006

around town did lonley planet walk up to no 10...

 

Chasing Winters aka A Blind Man's Guide To S.E.Asia

So now it’s finally onto Cambodia. A Dutch couple travelling the opposite direction told us to expect a two and a half hour bus trip from where the boat berths. Jason came to the conclusion that we should expect the worst. The worst I’d heard was that ...

 

Sarah's big adventure

Having finished with Ayutthaya, we arrived in Chiang Mai last week, and have been staying in an amazingly clean guesthouse that's only 190 Baht per night (about 3 pounds) so we're rather pleased with that. It's a fair bit cooler up here as well, so we...

 

Vietnam

Vietnam Day 1 After sailing up through the Mekong Delta about twenty miles inland, we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) around 7am, docked about a kilometer south of the CBD. We enjoyed a brief welcoming from the Vietnamese government and were so...

 

VIETNAM

Saigon: probably our favourite place in Vietnam. We met some really nice local people - among them were little Lynn and her even littler brother - street' kids - who we met on a nightly basis for an impromtu game or fifty of 'paper, scissors, stone'. ...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

 

Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

 

Southeast Asia 2006/07

Well after arriving from the so clean city of Singapore, I quickly made my way to the southern bus station direct from the airport. I caught a bus to Damnoen Saduak and the following morning booked out a boat from a nice man Aree (081 9415952). That...

 

Backpacking South East Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore

After a butt-bruising bus ride from Siem Reap, Cambodia to the Thailand border, one could only breathe a sigh of relief as Thailand offered smooth, paved roads and double decked, padded seated buses. It was as if the border was the invisible line of a...

 

adventuring

I'm in Nepal - it's AWESOME Pokhara was such a weclome relief. india was amazing, inspiring, spiritual, challening, and sometimes hard work. The noise, smell, amount of people... after 3 months it was starting to get to me. We couldn't get the b...

 

ROUND THE WORLD

Spent only 2 days in Arequipa, leaving us too little time to visit the nearby Colca canyon. Instead we rested and visited the charming Santa Catalina monastery....

 

Asia 2006

I originally hoped Patty would join me in Bali for my final eight days. She was busy, however. Jim joined me for the eight days. I got my scuba certificate while in Bali....

 

S.E ASIA 2006

We had a little less than a week to fill in before meeting Chris (Andrews older brother)in Laos so decided to spend it on yet another tropical island! We didn't have enough time or funds to get down to the desired southern Thailand islands so we settle...

 

Europe and Asia Extravaganza 2006

Hi! I have skipped over this entry temporarily. I have someone anxiously waiting on news about Ireland. I will come back to it as soon as I can. Best wishes from Yangshuo, China, Tiff...

 

Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

 

OCEP Vietnam 2006

Well our grand plans for a nice two-day cruise of Halong bay were buggered up by the typhoon that conveniently hit the bay on Friday. We'd booked the tour through one of the many travel agents here so we decided to just change to two one-day tours. Fir...

 

South East Asia 2007

Dalat is a flourishing market town up in the Central Highland hills halfway down Vietnam. We were only here a short time but went on a city tour day trip to see some of the local sights. This involved places such as waterfalls, a buddhist temple an...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 2) - New Zealand, Australia, Asia & Europe 2006 / 2007

Wednesday 11th April I Woke at 5am as train rattled into Hanoi. I met Aaron and Natalie at the front of the station and we took a taxi back to the same hotel, where we had breakfast because nowhere else was open before 8am. Then I took a ta...

 

my life...on the road

start my journey at the age of 17, walking on the street alone with all guys speak different language from which i do. NObody understand me ,and i understand nobody neither... good. give it up or life goes on. did not think too much and 7 years already...

 

Vietnam 2006

O my word, so I have made it to Vietnam! After 11 hours in planes and airports I finally stepped out of the Vietnam airport and to be very honest there was just one word going through my mind, and yes you guessed it, not a very nice word! This pla...

 

Vietnam

We totally didn't spend enough time in Ho Chi Minh city, but we didn't expect that we would like it so much either! On the first night we had dinner at a place called 'Zen' - where I seemed to be the only one to have a tasty meal (chickpea curry) - the...

 

2003 was good

March 8, 8:44 pm Ho Chi Minh City: Park View Hotel Saigon is by far the most congested and unorganized cities I have ever seen or heard about. It is unreal. There appears to be no traffic laws whatsoever; everyone simply drives wherever they please. ...

 

Vietnam

If I had to summarise in one word, Dalat is cold, not rainy cold like Hue but actually wearing all the layers you packed cold! The locals are totally OTT though, I actually saw a poor kid wearing a snood! They must really feel it because they're wrappe...

 

Vietnam

After what we was told would be a 4 hour journey and ended up at 6 we arrived in Ho Chi Minh city or Saigon, to be met by a man chasing another one down the street with a meat cleaver, thinking oh my god we quickly found a gusethouse. HCMC is like t...