It's the 31st May and we have arrived in Ho Chi Min City aka HCMC. Immigration was interesting and lengthy, which resulted in our backpacks being abandoned in the airport. After a local bus ride and avoiding the tuk tuk Mafia we decided to walk to our hotel. 5 minutes in melting from the heat we stopped at the first hotel we found, ditching the one as planned. A good bit of negotiation got a great price for a luxury room (luxury in the eyes of a backpacker mind)....

North Thailand - Bangkok, Chiang Mai & Pai So it's the 3rd of May and are heading to Thailand. First stop, Bangkok! First words learnt, sawad dee krap (hello). Feeling organised we pre-booked our accommodation. Wow jumped into a taxi and headed into the city. The 'taxi' driver had no idea where the hostel was therefore james became lead scout! Map in hand he got us there in one piece. Being 7.30am having not slept all night we were pretty tired. We were gre...

South Thailand - Phuket, Ko Lanta, Krabi, Koh Samui & Koh Tao. Having visited the north and loved the cities, the culture, the people and most of all the food (can't say I was impressed with rice again, loved the variety though and obviously James loved it all) we were excited to experience the south! It's the 15th may and after a windy bus journey back to Chiang Mai followed by a flight, we reached our first destination, Phuket, actually Patong which is th...

Blog 4 Sri Lanka New country, new cuisine, new adventures, anxious Ro and excited James! Seems to be a pattern forming when we move, takes me a while to get settled, I have a little panic over places we stay and what I am going to eat...however it soon passes, much to James' delight! After a 40 minute flight, and a breakfast consisting of crackers, cheese and cake we land in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka! It took us some time to obtain our visa. The immigration...

South India... So when we thought we had seen what Mumbai has to offer, we met Ninad, our new friend. He approached us the previous night asking to meet with U.S. When convenient wishing to ask our thoughts of India, stating he works for the university....after debating whether this was another scam we agreed to meet for breakfast. What a lovely guy...I wrote reams in his little journal whilst he chatted to james. He gave us an itinerary for the day and said his...