Hey all currently swinging in my hammock, escaping the heat, probably 35, wasting away the day in Pai, up in the northern mountains of Thailand, about 50km from the border with Thailand. Arrived in Pai yesterday and it is the most chilled out place I have been to yet, full of hippies and other like minded travellers, perfect place to waste a week relaxing and doing nothing. The ride here was pretty full on though, it was about 3 ½ hours and the majority of it w...

Currently writing this on the plane to Thailand from Luang Prabang, having been to Vang Vieng just before hand. Vang Vieng was awesome, ended up spending a bit of extra time there then expected after I came down with my first bout of travellers gastro for about 3 days. Vang Vieng is a little community essentially designed for the backpacker around its main attraction tubing. There is plenty of other stuff to do such as caving, hiking, mountain bike riding and...

Sorry I have not updated this, emailed people, or called in a while but strangely enough I have been flat out, I am still having a great time and doing heaps of cool stuff and getting in to a bit of mischief. Because its been a while and im actually running out of battery sitt5ing on the bus to Van Vieng to go tubing ill just summarise the cool s*** I’ve done since last time I updated which I think was Nha Trang. From Nha Trang I headed up to Hanoi, the capit...

Hey all, Writing from Nha Trang, Vietrnam. What an eventful time I have had since I last wrote on here. Learnt a tough life lesson about personal security in Ho Chi Minh City when I had my wallet stolen by a hooker in a pool bar, woke up a small neighbourhood of Vietnamese locals when last night after a massive St Patricks day went down the wrong street and started banging on this hotel gate to let me in, woke up everybody in the area, don’t even know if it is...

Well the trip has officially started and im sitting in my hotel room writing this which is about the size of a jail cell and has 2 single beds in here, actually its pretty similar to a jail cell. The mattress is as hard as rock but I guess that’s what you get for staying in a backpacker joint on the main road of Kowloon, Hong Kong. I think its only just starting to settle in about what im doing and im loving it. Could really get used to this. First impression...