Today we manage to get up and decide to look around the temples, after spotting the con that all the temples near by are closed and the only ones open are a tuk tuk ride away we arrive at the grand palace, it's huge and amazing! Everything made of gold, then we see the temple of the emerald Buddah which is stony statue of Buddah surround by a lot of gold and jewels, and the temple of the reclining Buddah which was huge! no pictures were allowed unfortunately, the...

We wake up late again today! (Jet lag is still a b****) and consult are bangkok bucket list of things to do in an afternoon we decide to explore siam square in the centre of town, after a while bartering with the tuk tuk driver and nearly dying on the journey there we arrive. The square is huge! 6 floors in 5 huge shopping centres bigger than any I've seen in England. We have a quick lunch and start to look around after a few hours shopping we venture outside, we...

So after months of waiting and an 18 hour journey with a very rushed stop off in Qatar we have finally arrived in bangkok! The heat (and the smell) hits us as soon as we walk out of the air conditioned airport. We get in a taxi straight away and it takes us over an hour and a half to drive the 10km to the hotel because of the awful traffic! But still manages to cost us just 300 baht (less than £6) we arrive at the hotel: Rambuttri village inn and plaza at 10.30 ...

69 days and counting! Flights are booked, backpacks bought, and vaccinations done! Our first flight is 28th of July from Heathrow to Bangkok, stopping off in Doha (wherever that is!) then we have until the end of November (4 months) to travel south east Asia before we fly from Bali to Darwin where we then have oz working visas for a year. We have budgeted about £7000 for this part of the trip and are hope to make some more money in oz so we can continue our ad...