After finally getting on our shuttle bus at Sydney airport we arrived in Kings Cross and we were slightly dubious as to what we were going to be in for, having changed our original hostel reservation as we had heard horrendous reviews about uncleanliness and LOUD noise from the bar below, we decided to stay at the Jackaroo hostel which was new and right next to the station. So when we arrived we found our hostel…literally INSIDE the station, but walked downst...

Arriving in Australia we were greeted with our first Australian Quarantine experience - couldn't believe how strict they are about what is and isn't allowed into their country! Lucky for us we got fast tracked through which was unbelievable and didn't have to faff about at all! We hopped on our shuttle bus and headed for our hostel in Perth City. When we arrived we were less than impressed. We were checked in by a large 'I don't overly care about anything excep...

Now that we are over 1/3 of the way through our adventure, and since leaving Asia I've been meaning to write a blog as a sort of round up of our experiences so far… First and foremost Asia treated us rather well most of the time and we thoroughly enjoyed the majority of our experiences, so things I am going to miss about Asia: ·A crazy sense of adventure in completely foreign cultures ·The contrast in the way non-Western cultures go about their daily liv...

Singapore - our final destination in Asia. As we have gradually made our way down through South East Asia we have noticed that the culture has progressively got more and more 'Western' (as we now refer to it), and Singapore was the ultimate Asia meets Cosmopolitan - Globalisation at its best! It was a real shock to see everything so urban, clean, modern and technologically advanced. It seemed like the creators of Singapore studied every other major world city -...

Part two… Next day we packed up and trekked in the blazing heat to catch our next bus to Kuala Lumpur. It's really not fun carrying 21kgs on your back, 10 kgs on your front, wearing flipflops, in 30 degree sun for about a mile!! Thankfully the bus was nice, spacious, cool and journey was quick and easy to KL. Arrived at the Hotel China Town Inn, in the bustling market street of China Town, but luckily our hotel was pretty nice and quiet. Had dinner at a litt...