On Sunday we left Singburi to go to Umphang, where we spent our week with the elephants. It was a long journey, we left at 7.30pm and had a long bus ride until 5am then a few hours in the back of a pick up truck through the mountains. It was an uncomfortable ride as not only were we in a pick up truck but the roads had a lot of twists and turns. We got very bored and when we came to the conclusion we were never going to get any sleep, we decided to liven things u...

After the crazy hustle and bustle of Bangkok, where we stayed in Singburi was completely different. We got a public bus to Singburi bus station which took 2 hours, but our accommodation was actually 15 minutes outside of Singburi. It's owned by Greenway, the company who run the Siam Culture week we were booked on to. Our room was ok, it was a 4 bed dorm but we were the only people in it, though we did have to share the room with a number of ghekkos. We arrived la...

Wow, what can we say about Bangkok? It's safe to say that there is no city quite like it. Though unlike the poor souls in the hangover we can confirm that we still have all our fingers, have no tiger tattoos and we still have all our hair. The city was just how we imagined: crazy! We got a taxi from the airport with the funniest taxi driver we've ever met. He didn't speak a word of English but still somehow had us in stitches as he drove us to the famous backpack...

So we left Australia after an amazing few weeks and had a 5 and a half hour flight to Singapore where we spent the night. At Singapore airport we were just planning a complicated route of buses and trains to our hostel after collecting our bags when we realised we could get dropped right to the door of our hostel for about £5....perfect! Our hostel in Singapore was really nice, much better than our bug-infested Perth accommodation! It was the cheapest bed we cou...