Nyaung Shwe - Inle Lake - Burma/Myanmar May 21st - 22nd, 2016 We arrived at Nyaung Shwe, a small town close to Inle Lake, at 6.30 in the morning after a very slow, twisty, turny journey on our luxury bus, sleepy but excited to be discovering somewhere new! After declining the offered taxi, we walked not much more than 10 minutes to get to our hotel and were pleasantly surprised when they let us check in straight away, expecting to just be able to leave our bag...

Yangon - Burma/Myanmar May 17th - 20th Our first day in Yangon began with breakfast at the hostel....finally included breakfast!! Meaning that we didn't have to go without or spend ages looking for something before we could start our day. Fuelled up on fruit, toast, eggs and coffee (not real coffee, but 3-in-1 stuff!!) we set off into the busy streets for a long day of sightseeing, beginning with Sule Paya, a pagoda that forms the heart of downtown Yangon as a...

Kuala Lumpur May 14th - 17th, 2016 Having already been to Bornean Malaysia I was anticipating more of the same just on a bigger scale, but Kuala Lumpur is nothing like that in the slightest and despite myself I found I rather liked this city after all. For a start, it has a great public transport system, with several options for reaching the city from the airport, then there is the myriad of train and bus lines throughout the city which make getting around sim...

Santa-Fe - Bantayan Island - The Philippines May 12th - 14th, 2016 After much deliberating and indecisiveness caused by lack of access to current information ie. No websites and unhelpful tourist desks, we eventually decided to go to the island of Bantayan for a couple of nights to relax and regroup before the next part of our adventure. Once our minds were made up it was a simple process to get to the Northern Bus Terminal and buy tickets to Hagnaya, the litt...

Chocolate Hills - Bohol - The Philippines May 10th - 11th, 2016 After our night on the bus we had another full day of travel ahead of us, from the bus station we got a taxi to the airport where we caught a flight down to the Island of Cebu in The Visayas. From here we caught the airport bus to one of Cebu's many Malls where we were able to finally enquire at the travellers lounge about ferry's to other islands....it's impossible to find out any current or usef...