After returning to Brisbane back from surfers, we decided to book our train ticket straight up to Cairns from a STA travel agent, this proved to be harder then we thought! from a $300 train ticket we managed to purchase a $500 ticket tour of the east coast visting Fraser Island for a 3 day safari then travelling up to the Whitsundays for another 3 day boating cruise then eventually ending up in Cairns on the 11th! we decided this would be a better option and allo...

G'day from Australia. We arrived in Brisbane yesterday morning, but were treated with unsuspected suspiscion by the Customs officers, who on discovering we were teenagers who had come from Thailand, proceeded to hold us for 2 hours while undoing all our packing and searching all 6 of our bags, using sniffer dogs and narcotic sticks, while also interregating Arun. We got the cities 'Skytrain' from the aiport to city centre, which was a supposed 5 minute walk fr...

Hiya everyone, Sorry the blog has taken some time- we havnt had much time and internet has been quite sparce! After our stint in singapore air port, we arrived at Bankok centre Hostel in the early evening of the 18th to find that the hostel was about 10times nicer then any of the hotels that we had been in in India which was a pleasent suprise! We decided to take our Hotel guides advice and go on the underground that evening to Lumpini to the night bazar. this p...

Hello everybody, just a quick blog to let you know we are safely in singapore! our flight got in at about 6pm yesterday, and we took a shuttle to the town centre for a quick look around. We managed to see quite alot of the city before the last bus back at 12.30 going to the world indoor market in singapore and some swanky joints in suntec city, including the worlds largest fountain, which we have some good pictures of to show you when we can upload them. we had s...

Hello again everybody! This is it, our final post from India, it seems like it was only yesterday that we were heading for Heathrow but a month of our travels is already up! Just time now to tell you about our trip to Mount Abu.Having enjoyed our trip on the Jammu (prison train) mail so much we decided that another sleeper train experience was just what we needed and booked our places on the Ashram Express from Delihi to Mt Abu. On first sight the?Ashram seemed t...