Day 46 ctd - After finding our room, meeting Jack the dog who would follow us everywhere for the next two weeks, and finding the biggest cockroach of the trip so far (even the Thais were impressed!) we went out to 'explore' the village. Less than ten minutes later we were back at the hotel having seen the CJs, 7eleven, market, post office, school and hospital. Following a quick briefing on the next two weeks we went for a cheap restaurant dinner of veg rice for O...

Day 40 - With a lazy start of banana honey pancakes we caught our bus, our bus luck continued as the air-con broke and we spent an hour in a random Bangkok housing estate having it fixed. With the group back on board after a 7eleven stop we drove 3 hours to Camelia Resort in Kanchanaburi. There we found a third floor room overlooking mountains and a beautiful swimming pool. After a dip we got on our house shaped restaurant and were pulled by a boat along the rive...

Day 33 ctd - We weren't in India anymore and it soon showed, with everything in Bangkok being spotlessly clean. We caught the new sky train (it opened last week) changing at Phaya Thai and lots of lovely people gave us nice and truthful directions to help us find The Urban Age Hostel, though attempting to sell us EVERY imaginable item and show on the way! Despite our dorm's 6th floor location, free tea and cocoa, air-con and lovely staff and fellow guests certain...

Day 30 - Arriving in Ernakulam we had more rickshaw luck as our driver actually asked locals for directions and drove us around until he found our destination without demanding a single rupee extra. We had a warm welcome at Costa Gama Homestay and enjoyed a cool shower in our immaculate room before heading out to explore Fort Cochin. Having received recommendations from everyone we mentioned Kerala to we booked a backwater cruise for the following day before walk...

Day 27 ctd - Hoping for any standard of room that did not have mosquitos we headed for the New Guest House run by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. For Rs. 200 a night our expectations were basic but we disovered a lovely clean bug free room with balcony. The only rules were 10.30pm - 5.30am curfew, no smoking, drinking or eating in rooms and shoes off inside and in return we got a pretty courtyard garden and rooms labelled with personality traits (Heroism seemed fitting...