Borneo and the FINAL bus After 8 long and crazy months and literally hundreds and hundreds of hours spent on rickety old rust bucket busses cruising along pot-holed dirt roads with suspension made of granite, it is time to say goodbye to the spine crunching machines. And if there is one thing I have learnt on this epic journey, it is that I will not miss those busses. Ever. And of course, my final stop on the world third largest island of Borneo did not disapp...

Beach Break It has been some time since I started looking forward to my "break" in Thailand. A break from what you may (or definitely will) ask? Well, time away from the hectic touristing, the perpetual photo taking, the cultural experiencing, the constant moving from hostel to guest house to bus to train… It was planned to be a relaxing time spent snoozing away the sands of time on the tropical beaches of the south Thailand islands. And how did we ...

Colourful Cambodia Admittedly, I only had limited time to discover the 'newest' country in SE Asia, but it was seven sweat-saturated days filled with heartache, history and hangovers. In many ways, Cambodia is similar to Vietnam - a bit like its little brother - a sibling fighting its way out of troubled childhood. Like Vietnam it presents a happy face sitting on a heavy heart. In contrast to the physical remnants of the country's recent past, there was very li...

"Crossing the 17th" Vietnam, a country once divided along this arbitrary and infamous parallel, is still recovering from its tumultuous recent past. But it is doing a remarkably efficient and wide-smiled job at moving on, partly using that troubled past to build a varied and sometimes intense travelling experience - with no shortage of the, now ubiquitous, sweat and hard work on my part. And for me too, my time in Vietnam was divided - shared between w...

Time for a break… Well, a break from touring the hot, dry and pretty desolate northern part of SE Asia anyway… And what better place to do that than a "city break" in the two massive developed cities (with aircon!) of Kuala Lumpur and Singapore? And so it was that after 20 minutes of sightseeing in Vientiane in the morning, I swapped the country feel for the big smoke of KL. And what a change it was! Not the biggest city in the world by any means, ...