George: Our last few days in Vietnam consisted of a motorbike tour, quad bikes over sand dunes, a very depressing war museum and 3 days on the meKong delta. So after the death defying canyoning day we decided to see more of what dalat had to offer and booked a motorcycle tour with the very aptly named 'easy riders'. It was a very fun and interesting day in which we felt we saw the real Vietnam. Perched on the back of a large motorcycle we were driven around v...

After a night spent in Singapore airport and 5 non eventful days in Bangkok, awaiting our visas for Vietnam and obiding by the 10pm curfew set by the military coup, we flew to Hanoi, Vietnam. What a culture shock!! With a growing population of over 7 million and a surface area of just over 3000 squared kilometres it is classed as one of the world's most densely populated cities. It felt like the entire population was in that town centre, all piled on to moto...

All in all we spent 9 nights on Gili Air, the longest time we've spent in one place (not including working in Sydney). We spent the first two relaxing and indulging then on the third day George decided that he can no longer just lay by the sea all day and moaned about being bored!! In paradise, can you believe it?!!! Coming from the same boy who used to go on holiday, plug his headphones in and bake all day!! Even though I'm very happy about this change of heart...

We are now in Indonesia! We flew in to Bali and I had a real culture shock straight away and totally freaked out after going to the toilet in the airport and losing George!! The airport was so busy and it was so ridiculously hot and humid at 11pm!! We then had to barta for a cab to take us to our hotel (a whole £5 for a 30 minute journey!) where the driver went from driving along incredibly busy roads, full of cars and mopeds, to blacked out empty streets wh...