So this is our last stop, Thailand. We're writing this with six days to go until we pack our bags for the last time on this adventure and head home. Strange feeling to be so near the end of such an amazing 6 months - partly sad about not continuing the exploration together and partly very excited about being home to see family and friends just in time for Christmas. We arrived in buzzing Bangkok at the begin of November and after a few days we were tired of the ...

We spent the first 5 days in Nepal in a town called Bhaktapur (about 20 minutes from Kathmandu). It was a picturesque town, which gave us our first views of beautiful architecture surrounded by the hills of Kathmandu Valley covered in rice terraces. We stayed on the top floor of a lovely guesthouse which had views across the rooftops of Bhaktapur and the hills behind. We could often see children flying kites on their roof terraces. We were visiting a nepali cou...

Where do we begin? 18 days has felt like a whistle stop tour filled with kind hospitable bubbly people, delicious curries, wild rickshaw riding, beeping horns, ram packed trains, concrete jungle and beautiful green hills... We arrived slightly tired from our flight at 3am in the morning and had a couple of hours trying to make our way to our accomodation. The first day in Mumbai was the culmunation of the elephant festival so Mumbai was alive and bustling with ...

So what had the potiential to be the least enjoyable of our 21 flights over these 6 months, turned out to be an awesome day. We left the Iris base at 1pm on Monday afternoon and headed to Pemba Airport to fly from Mozambique to J'berg, where we landed at 6pm local time. After collecting our tickets, enjoying a tasty meal, and making another attempt to organise a transit hotel in Doha (which failed again as they said the transit hotel was not on our file), we boa...

The IRIS base at Pemba (Heidi and Rolland Baker) is fairly developed and the schedules for the day, the size of the base and seeing some white people was quite a shock when we arrived! Iris seem to have really allowed people to take forward the variety of ideas they have for projects into the community so there are a lot of work going on. We have spent the most part of the past three weeks in the vocational school, which is set up to try and help provide vocatio...