Hey all!! So we are finishing up in Kerala today. We will miss all the amazing scenery and the funky little strip down by the beach but I won't miss the crazy walk down a million steps through a construction site to get there! : ) the hotel we are staying...
We arrived by aeroplane into Luang Prabang airport which is a generous term as it is more of a shed than anything else. The immediate sense of landing in Laos is how relaxed the country is? No rush, everything has it's own pace. This will seem funny but...
One thing to note about Laos is the fact that if you want to travel around you really need to not mind bumpy winding roads. We had been warned that when getting buses in Laos the driver will tend to give you a sweetened version of the journey beforehand....
We arrived on a VIP bus from Vang Vieng. To call the bus VIP would be the a huge stretch but it got us here in one piece. The capital city of Laos Vientiane is exceptionally quiet. Due to Laos' slow moving economy since the secret war the capital has...
Back in Bangkok Here we are, last stop on our travels. It has been a great experience. From the mad streets of Mumbai to the beautiful backwaters of Kerala in India, to the remote mountains of China and their many interesting customs and language barriers,...
Goa We arrived into a over-cast drizzly small airport which looked as though it had been built a very long time ago. The atmosphere was remarkably different to Mumbai, it is more tourist orientated so everyone speaks English and it's so much less mental...
Bangalore Compared to the rest on India this city is relatively sane!! It was a bit more organised and set up properly with the locals a lot more used to Western tourists. No pictures requested unfortunately. (Our egos are slowly coming back down to earth)....
Hello from Mumba!!!!! We flew from Dublin to London where we were greeted by the lovely terminal 4 for seven hours. Fun! I think we walked every square inch of the airport at least twice.... When we checked in though we managed to get emergency exit seats...
I won't bore you with the details of the many buses etc that we had to take to make our way down to Qiaotou where you begin the trek through TLG. With our rucksacks we tried to leg it past the government ticket office where they charge you to do the trek....
So from where we left off, we visited the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square as our last adventure in Beijing. The square is the largest public square in the world. The square has two huge Soviet styled buildings to its east and west flanks with the Forbidden...
We arrived by bullet train into Shanghai from Wuhan our drop off destination from the Yangtze Cruise with horrible head colds (lovely image). We walked into the biggest train station i have ever seen, it was colossal. Shanghai is know as Paris of the...
To make our way to the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Pehn, the group hopped onto a local bus. It was a five hour drive through the countryside, passing many houses on stilts and water buffalo soaking themselves in muddy pits. Even though we had arrived...
Yangshuo is about an hour from Guilin and has amazing scenery with plenty of rivers and lakes. Yangshuo was China's first tourist town so everywhere you look there are stalls galore selling every type of souvenir available. The week we visited was China's...
We hopped on a bullet train from Guangzhou to Hong Kong and I was pretty excited about being upstairs on the train - what? It was cool! We said goodbye to Chinas mainland and I am so glad we included it in our trip we really had an amazing time but my...
Sihanoukville is one of Cambodia's top beach resorts and is a welcome change from cities. The sun was shinning for the two days we were here. Our hotel was five minutes walk from the beach and had a pool. There was a nice beach with a strip of bars and...
Following another overnight sleeper train we arrived in Hoi An, a pleasant little town full of winding streets and an endless supply of tailor shops. The Old Town sits alongside the Thu Bon River and all the little old buildings are still in good condition...
Bangkok We flew into Bangkok in the dead of night and to the worst floods Thailand has experienced in 40 years. The roads where passable for the most part driving to our hotel. The following night we met our tour group for a introduction dinner when the...
On an over night train from Ho Chi Minh City we arrived at 5:30 in the morning into a sleepy costal town. Our first impression of the town was that we could be in any Southern European Beach Resort. Our plan was to chill out at a beach party (all you...
The Yangtze After two nights wandering through the winding streets of Lijiang, admiring the many tiny dogs and their lovely dresses (yes all the dogs wear dresses) we headed off to Chonqing for a night to prepare for our trip through the three gorges...
More buses!! We are getting very skilled at curling up into a half decent position for sleeping on the long bus journeys. Arrived in Chau Doc not too far past the Vietnamese border. Triangular straw hats and even more scooters were to be seen everywhere....
So China has this national holiday week at the beginning of October which means way too many people all trying to move around the country at the same time so getting train tickets is like winning the lotto. So we flew from Shanghai to Guilin. Guilin is...
Chengdu The experiences of the China trains have so far being brilliant, relatively cheap transport with some amazing views from the carriage windows. The train from Xian to Chengdu was a little different; we met two lovely Chinese men who had minimal...
We arrived to Hue after a 4 hours bus journey. This city was the ancient capital during the period from 1744-1945. The city has a grand palace and a forbidden city similar and smaller to the one in Beijing. Such was the influence from China during this...
Our last sleeper train between Hue and Hanoi was the longest we had in Vietnam and the least pleasant. At 4.30am we were glad to be getting off! We said goodbye to the cockroaches and got into our minivan to Halong Bay. We arrived there that afternoon...
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