Good Morning Vietnam, Well here we are in Ho Chi Minh or as its more commonly known, Saigon. None of us have ever visited Vietnam before so we didn't really know what to expect apart from the usual images of huge numbers of people on motorbikes and that western influence would be low as it is a communist country. We were spot on with the first part there are so many bikes here (but more on that later), however it shocked us how unobvious it was that it was und...

Hi everyone, As we have done for the previous sections of our trip we decided to do a summary blog of our time in Indonesia. We are now heading to Vietnam and Thailand and expect the culture and landscape to change quite a bit as we visit places that are more on the normal tourist trail. So our Indonesia adventure… Days travelled = 26 Islands visited = 14 Modes of transport = 7 Volcanoes climbed = 3 Favourite place = (M) Gili T and Bukit (K) Bukit Lawa...

Hey guys, Since we left you we have completed the final leg of our boat journey, had a good sleep in a proper bed, got on yet another boat then have eventually flown from Bali to Kuala Lumpur on our way to Vietnam. So I've got a bit to talk about as we have been on some form of transport for most of the last 4 days. Anyway I'll start with the end of our boat trip. We spent our last evening playing Pictionary using paint on the computer, which actually turned ou...

Hey guys, When we left you, we had just set sail for Labuanbajo which we arrived at late afternoon on our 3rd day on the boat. Labuanbajo is the main gateway for tourists visiting Flores or the Komodo national park and is known as a good base for diving in the area, although it is really not much more than a port town with an airport close by. We all left the boat for a few hours saying goodbye to some of the guests who opted to do a one-way trip and spent a ...

Hello from the Flores Sea! We have now been on our boat for 3 days and have already been on our first dragon spotting adventure! We left the Gili islands early on Wednesday morning for the town on Senggigi on Lombok, from where we picked up our tour bus. After a quick stop off in Mataram, the capital of Lombok, for 'personal needs' as our guide put it (KFC in our case, Maccy D's in Gemma's), we headed off on the bus across Lombok. As part of the tour we sto...