"Listen to the silence inside your head. Smile at the sun" said our Yoga teacher in a serene and calm voice to his class. "You're not smiling" he quickly snapped at someone. There weren't too many smiles in the room as we all tried bending our foot behind our heads. The teacher had gone for the full Jesus look, a proper Indian hippy, long beard and flowing dark hair, dressed in a white flowing gown, he showed the class the moves step by step. "Become aware of the...

We are now in a place called Mamallapuram and using the easy going tourist town as a means to acclimatise to the crazy place called India. Its really true that people say you will either love or hate India. There are more than 1.1 billion people running around India doing their thing and its this wildness and energy you either love and embrace, or you freak out and hate. We love it. It's a backpacker's enclave here and the first thing we did on arrival is st...

Our arrival in India all got a little stressful, and by 3am we were still on the dark streets on Chennai, with our bags, groups of men watching us, nowhere to go and a rickshaw driver who kept telling us how good his driving is. We left Vietnam early the previous morning, had spent ten hours in Singapore and late the next evening Kat and I were two white faces on the plane in a sea of Indians, another guy from Spain sat next to us on the flight - they put all th...

Mui Ne is a stunning beach that offers fish sauce and kitesurfing, but not together. Its a large fishing bay and each night you can watch hundreds of boats out in the bay shinning powerful lights into the sea to attract the fish. Some fisherman still choose to paddle out, in my opinion, the most ridiculous sea going craft I've ever seen. A sort of giant walnut shell that looks like it could tip over very easily. Outside of the town we drove past farms and houses...

The central highlands town of Dalat, promised us stunnning French style buildings that surrounded a lake with green rolling hills and pine forests. All we found were persistantly annoying, not so 'EZ rider', touts trying to sign you up for a motorbike trip, constant power cuts, dirty streets, rain, ****** restaurants and a lake surrounded with plastic rubbish. We left the town on the next bus and just after leaving I read about the experience of the first Lonely...