South-East Asia 2006

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

 

South East Asia 2006

Okay, Well we made it. After all the fuss the bus wasnt too bad. We arrived at the Vietnam-Laos border around 5am and had to wait for teh border guards to open it up at 7am. However that gave us a chance to watch teh sunrise in the mountains which w...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Vietnam

"The bees," our guide announced, indicating the hive in front of us, "are tourist-friendly, just like the Vietnamese people." Tang smiled, trying to assure us that we could hold the hive for photos. I was delighted at the unintentio...

 

Two months in Southeast Asia

Today was one of the toughest days on my journey thus far. I was dragged forcibly to float down the river on an inner tube, stopping at rope swings and watering holes along the way. It was just horrendous. When we wanted to pause at a pit stop, we had ...

 

South East Asia, New Zealand & Japan 2004-5

Check out the blog and archives December 2004 and January 2005 ;o) http://lunamodule.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_lunamodule_archive.html...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Thailand

Travel using public transport...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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 ...

 

Chris and Lisa World Tour

Follow our travels round the world...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Southeast Asia

Phnom Penh Revisited We had a conversation with a very well traveled gentlemen who disagreed with my less than favorable opinions of Phnom Penh. He told me that he found the city to be developing nicely. He commented that what ever city you visit fi...

 

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'. ...

 

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...

 

SE Asia 2006/07

After catching the "Scam Bus" from Koh Chang (yes they do exist outide of the Kao San Road) we eventually arrived in Siem Reap having got the bus company to pay for a Taxi from the border at Poipet!!!!. We travelled all the way from Koh Ch...

 

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...

 

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 ...

 

Our Travels

Left Holland today and arrived in San Francisco. Left for Kauai on the 19th. Spent about 5 nights there, had wonderful time on the many beaches including glass and barking sands beaches as well as driving around in our Mustang convertible. Also star ...