Singapore is one of the most fantastic cities I have ever been to. It's an Asian New York with all of the glamour. F1 stadiums, a huge financial district with some of the tallest buildings on the planet, one of the best and most renowned china towns worldwide, Shopping centres galore and off course the Raffles hotel with the famous Singapore sling. It is such a clean place where everything is signed posted in English, they drive on the left and you generally feel...

After arriving in Malaysia miles from anywhere, I managed to get myself to the centre of Kuala Lumpur. Some challenge at that time of night without spending a small fortune. With most of the hostels booked up, I ended up staying in a hostel in China Town. The rooms where as you could imagine not pleasant, however as I only paid two pounds a night I plodded on. Kuala Lumpur is as I imagined a high rise metropolis. The 3rd tallest building in the world stands in...

The Second stage of my Thai journey finally brought me to the first beach of my travels. After catching the sleeper train from bangkok down to surathani (Despite what you may think, it is nigh on impossible to sleep on a sleeper train due to the fact that everytime the train stops you are thrown from your bed!). From Surathani i caught a number of buses to the coast where i caught the ferry to Koh Samui. Koh Samui is a fantastic place finally getting to a beach ...

Arriving at Thailands international airport in Bangkok i was pleasantly suprised at how modern the city is. I had assumed it was a much more 3rd world. Many skyscrapers and western food outlets (mcdonalds everywhere). The weather here is totally different than that of nepal. Very humid and much hotter. As it is just the end of the monsoon season i have seen a few minutes of the heaviest rain over the week i have been here. Bangkok is an architecturally wonderfu...

Ive finally finished what i can only describe as hard graft for the last two weeks. Everest Base camp wow, what to say about it. From landing in Lukla airpoirt which happens to be the most dangerous, shortest and steepest airport anywhere in the world we travelled upwards, 3500 metres upwards to be exact. The trek we took part in involved 10 people from accross the world 3 others from england. We had two sherpas one named shanker one named rabin. These where the...