yes yes i am still alive! i have been so rubbish at updating this, but its only because iv been having so much fun :) so where do i begin? since my last entry iv travelled up through laos, down through thailand and arrived yesterday in malaysia. it has been the best time of my life. so i will give you all a very brief rundown of what iv been up to ... its not long til yous can talk to me about it in person! laos was the most peaceful and laid back place i have...

so i'm here in siem reap at the moment. have had a very interesting time here in cambodia so far. since i last wrote, i spent a week volunteering at the scao orphanage in a little village just outside phnom penh. the owners asked me to live there for the week to save me travelling back and forth everyday and so that i would have more time to spend with the children. the orphanage was wonderful. its run by one man and his wife, just a small local project and they...

i made it in one piece to cambodia! 3rd country of 7 on this trip :) so to recap the last few days: saigon was hectic. mad traffic, a million motorbikes and lots of noise! such a huge city and also the first time i saw the seedy side of vietnam. up until then vietnam had been paradise but saigon is full of parents exploiting their children to make money, having them out selling things late at night when they should be in fast asleep and scary prostitutes who app...

hello all! so its been a while since my last entry - getting a bit rubbish at updating it! anyway im in a little town called dalat at the moment. after returning from sapa to hanoi we headed down the coast stopping at hue, hoi an and nha trang. tomorrow we are heading for saigon. as soon as we left hanoi and headed down the coast the weather turned bad - proper monsoon type rain and flooding. i think i seriously underestimated rainy season! haha. the journey to...

im back in hanoi for the day, have had an amazing week in vietnam so this might be a long entry! sorry! so on saturday morning we headed for halong bay which was about a 3 hour drive to the east of hanoi. we had been really lucky with the weather with every day in vietnam being hot and sunny but on the way to halong bay it started pouring of rain and got stormy. i had never seen a lightning bolt so close as when one struck a field right next to the road we were ...