Sawadee Ka (again!), We arrived in Kanachanaburi (River Kwai region) on Friday afternoon. We had a few problems at the bus station - we were trying to get the bus to our hotel but the bus driver didn't want to stop locally as it added time to his journey (damn the inconvenience of passengers wanting to get off the bus!) so in the end, with a little help from the tourist police, we got a Songthaew to our hotel. Songthaew's are interesting vehicles, they're basica...

Sawadee Ka, We arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday afternoon. We caught the airport shuttle bus to Sala Daeng MTR station and caught the sky train to Saphan Taskin. The sky train was pretty cool, you get to see the city below from it. We walked to try and find our hotel - at only 7pm it was pitch black and the road signs are mainly in Thai! We arrived at the hotel rather hot (it is baking here!) and looking like scruffy backpackers... The hotel was the equivalent t...

Hi All, We arrived in Hong Kong on Friday. We crossed the border at Shenzhen rather than flying direct, It was about half the price and not much more effort. We were both a bit sniffly from the air conditioning in Guilin but thankfully this didn't cause any hold-up's at immigration. (Otherwise we might have missed all of Hong Kong!) There has been a couple of Typhoons around China, they're not near Hong Kong though, so the worst weather we have had has been a ra...

Hey All, On Sunday we walked to the 'Big WIld Goose Pagoda'. It ended up being quite a hot sunny day. We watched an amazing dancing fountain show, where the fountains movements where choreographed to music. We entered the grounds of the pagoda and were met by some truely amazing sights - beautiful buddhist buildings, quiet scenic spots, walks through pretty gardens, pretty little pagoda's in the gardens and interesting stone carvings. In the evening, we went fo...

Hi All We are now in Xi'an, about 1200km west of Shanghai, we spent the last day in Shanghai, loitering about in cafes and parks passing the time as we were catching an overnight trainn that didnt leave until 8pm. :-) The train took 14 hours and we had a cabin with 4 bunk beds. There was us two and a chinese man and woman. The man slept like darth vader all night and so we didnt have the best nights sleep, but it was ok. We got picked up from the train station b...