Mapping our travels through India, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos & Thailand.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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