We spent the whole day travelling from Maggy Island and arrived in Airlie at 6pm, ready for our 2 day, 2 night boat trip on the Whitsundays the following day. We went to the local boat agency and checked in without any problems and were told to meet at the harbour the next day at 1.30pm. Nikki and Ben M had been on a slightly earlier bus and had arrived ahead of us. They had found a cheap place to eat and had text and invited us to meet them later on. We dumped...

Even though it was dark when we landed in Cairns, we stepped off the plane into 21 degree heat, a nice improvement on the freezing night temperatures of the centre. We got a free shuttle collection from the airport to our hostel and on the way met a Scottish girl called Rachael who was staying at the same place. After checking in we browsed some of the tours on offer to start planning our Oz trip before heading to our dorm for an early night. The following d...

From Singapore we flew directly to Brisbane on an overnight flight, where we boarded a second plane onto Alice Springs in Central Australia. Alice Springs is a small town, which lies around 400km away from Uluru (or Ayres Rock). The plan was to spend 3 days and 2 nights visiting Uluru and camping under the stars. Our tour began early on the first day at 5.45am when we were picked up by our tour guide Lewy and we joined 21 other passengers on a large mini bus. At...

Our journey from Thailand to Malaysia was not short...what a surprise. We were headed for the island of Langkawi at the far north of Malaysia and from Railay beach this involved, one long tail boat, 2 mini buses, 2 tuk tuks, a ferry and 1 taxi. Only Me, ben and a lad from America were making the trip, for 19 he could tell a good joke:-) After a full day of travelling we finally made it to Langkawi and checked into a basic guesthouse, which was run by a crazy lady...

A guy we met in Japan (donkeys years ago now) told us that when in the south of Thailand we had to visit Railay beach in Krabi due to is spectacular scenery and great beaches. Once at Krabi we enquired about Railay and found that even though it was on the mainland we still had to get a boat out to it, as it's completely unreachable by road. A little long tail boat took several of us out to the beach, with us loaded at one end, the rucksacks the other and everyth...