Waking at 4am we say good bye to Laos... 4AM!!! Anyway we fly into China, Yunnan Provance and the little town of Kunming. Population 4 million... Chinese classification = large town. Saw a chinese temple, had dinner then fell asleep. Up again the next day at 5.30am, wow what a sleep in! 9.5 hour bus ride to Lijiang... now this is old school china. Arriving in our hotel in the old town, you see little old ladies selling rice as they walk down the narrow cobbled st...

Hello, We are now in Laos and if you haven't read our Cambodia blog posted yesterday I would recommend you read that one first to catch up on our group tour :) As there was no direct flights to Laos, we spent a night in the capital of Laos - Vientiene. We didn't really have much time to see any of the sights but we are going back there in a few days time. We took an early morning flight to Luang Prabang and visited the Royal Palace Museum and boarded a boat he...

This starts our month long GAP adventure tour. We met our 10ft giant of a tour leader and knew that this guy would be impossible to lose in a crowd. This proved true as he took us to Koh Sang Road, Bangkok's busiest tourist backpacker street, for dinner. He was able to lead us through the multitudes of Thai and foreign backpackers. There was an abundance of cheap clothes stalls, bars, beggers and the world famous ping pong shows (which we decided not to visit). T...

We have made it to Bangkok in one piece! Flight from Sydney was the scariest experience of my life... we flew through 3 huge lightening storms and had pretty bad turbulence the whole way. Bangkok is busy busy busy and quite humid at the moment. So far we have had lost of rain though which cools the place down for a little while. Hotel is ok. It has a swimming pool which has kept us cool and helped us relax before setting off on our treck tomorrow. The hote...

Hello! I know I haven't updated this in a while and since we are leaving in 2 days time for Bangkok, I thought I best update you all. We have been having a nice peaceful time over the last couple of weeks AJ's parents set off for France so we have had the house to ourselves. We have been spending time catching up with AJ's mates and having BBQ's. The weather has not been that hot... pretty chilly actually (or I am just acclimatising!) Had one or two 30 d...