First arriving in Chiang Mai we found a hostel and went for a look around the city. We loved it straight away, managing to actually see some Thai culture. We got a taxi up the mountains to Doi Suthep - this temple above the clothes and walked around there for a few hours admiring it before heading back to get some food. We decided to get an early night as we were shattered from the continuous travel we'd done. Heading to tiger kingdom in the morning petrified we...

Firstly we arrived to Ho Chi Minh city after travelling by bus with some people we had met, first thing I noticed about Vietnam was the swam of motorbikes that took over the roads, they didn't have tuk tuks here but everything was so packed together this didn't matter! After we found a guesthouse we headed out for dinner and made the plan to go to the Cu chi tunnels the next day, we saw how small the original ones were (only 17cm), we crawled through ones which w...

We booked a castaways trip to leave from Hanoi backpackers to Halong Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning. The bus journey took 4 hours to get to the ferry and when you the ferry you were served some typical Vietnamese food. After lunch you spend the afternoon talking to the rest of the group, kayaking around halong bay and it's beautiful islands before arriving at castaways private island and being greeted by the other group who were currently on the island....

We arrived in Sihanoukville in the early hours of the morning and after being recommended and told so many stories about it we were not expecting what we got! We were planted right in the strip of a town full of clubs and hostels and were expecting some sort of paradise beach to look at. Having travelled one of the worst journeys of our life so far this put such a damper on our day and immediately wanted to leave. No hostels were open until 7.30-8 and it was 6 in...

We arrived in koh phangan after leaving koh samui with a combined bite total of over 100 and like all the other islands it was just as beautiful, unfortunately our hostel ended being abit out of town but we had an amazing beach near us! Next to our hostel we rented a moped and all was going well for the first 2 minutes until we turned a corner and slowly we rolled into a bush only a metre away from a lake, luckily both us and the bike was fine after 2 thai men he...