We should have guessed that choosing to fly with a budget airline named after a mythical creature was going to eventful. FlyYeti didn't let us down. KL airport is 70km away from the city, in the middle of the country side. We arrived at the airport around six in the evening to find our flight, just like the Yeti, was no-where to be found. Your heart sinks, my first thought was ****, the airline website was set-up by some spotty kid as an internet school project, ...

Back into the madness, touts shouting for you, no pavement, cars and bikes weaving around you and hot moist heat with a humidity of over %80, welcome to Kuala Lumpur. We didn't spend long here, a friend we couchsurfed with in Fiji, Richard, was working in KL. He arranged us a great hotel and then took us out for a awesome dinner at one of the thousands of street hawkers. He speaks fluent English , Thai & Cantonese, so when he orders Chinese food we know we wo...

WooooooooooooooooooooooooHooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! After staying in for many nights and eating cheap pasta meals, our kiwi bank account is finally looking at a respectable level to continue with a few more laps of the planet. Flying with budget airlines we moved over to Brisbane fitting in a swim in the city beach, then to Darwin for a 24hour look before landing in Singapore. With a heavy carbon footprint we spent thre...

Goodbye New Zealand, it was good times. As a testament to how much we enjoyed our time there, back in 2006 our original plan was to spend a short four months working and saving, we would arrive in late August and be out by Christmas. However, in the end we arrived early in June 2007 and didn't leave for nearly a year, till April 2008. We were talking with our flat mates about the country the other day and summarizing it into a nutshell, here is some of what w...

Here is a list of our flights and their dates. Come and visit us! Auckland to Singapore - 21 April Kuala Lumpar to Kathmandu - 27 April, return 27 May. Overland into South East Asia (Thailand,Laos,Cambodia,Vietnam,Myanmai r) for three months. Singapore to Chennai, India - 23 August Mumbai to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - 26 September Overland to Malawi for Lake of Stars - 10th - 12th October Travel South through Africa (route unknown) Travel in South Africa - 23 Nove...