We arrived in Bali and went to the beach which we were expecting to be white sand and crystal clear waters. Turns out to be full of rubbish and dead fish both all over the beach and in the sea. After coming out of the sea you stank of sewage, lovely!!! We did a surf lesson which was really good apart from the sewage. There was also a big shopping center there which we did our Christmas shopping for each other, with a whopping 5pounds budget! Spent Christmas day o...

We arrived in Singapore and did the tourist things of taking a tour along the river, going to see how the other half live at the Raffles hotel where the Singapore Sling Cocktail was invented. We didn't want to be rude so we ordered one...between us!! It did cost about 12 pounds though! Singapore was ok, we were expecting it to be a bit more flashy than it was. The main street though was full of all the top label brand shops and there were Christmas decorations ev...

We went from Bangkok to Koh Tao very quickly as this time Bangkok was very busy and very noisy! (we are getting old!) Koh Tao is an island on the east coast of Thailand and is famed for its scuba diving. We got there on a catamaran. This was interesting! It was very, very choppy and everyone was being sick! It was not a good trip! Soon the choppiness and the smell of sick sent both Danny and I over the edge. We were both sick and then spent the rest of the trip a...

We spent a couple of weeks in Malaysia. We first went to Penang Island and the hostel we stayed in had probably the most helpful guy we've met so far!! Did kind of look like the spitting image of Mr Miagi from karate kid, but he told us everywhere to go and the cheapest places to eat. From Penang we traveled to the Cameron Highlands in the central part of the Malaysian Peninsula. There we did a day trek to see the areas highest points, the tea plantations and th...

So the start of out trip into Laos was extremely eventful!! We had to cross the boarder at Huouy Xai. We stayed one night here before we could catch the slow boat down to Luang Prabang. Now the slow boat was very interesting! We got on a big long boat and waited until 11am when it was set to set sail! Now this was an education in its self. How many people can you cram on a boat made for 70 people? The answer is about 100! We were amazed at the ingenious ways in ...