We arrived into paradise! Stunning limestone islands & cliffs surrounding turquoise coves & bays. This was our little holiday within our travels & we have definitely been looking forward to it. The different tours around the islands look good so we pick a couple to do. The first one is on Xmas Day. This was tour to the outer islands. There were about 10 of us in total. We headed out and the water was pretty choppy. I was glad when we got to the 1s...

We were greeted at the airport by a bank of trycycles. The local tuk tuk for getting around. This one was a weird one though a kind of motorbike, sidecar, boat mish mash. The bike had a housing welded to it that had a roof. Seats enough for about 5 Filipinos or 2 westerners! But from the outside the fibreglass structure looks like a boat cabin. So strange & not very comfortable! I think at the most we saw 10 people inside one, it was hilarious! We had a cou...

Well lets just say today we realised how easy our journey has been before now. We have been lucky to not suffer any major problems. I'll admit I was not looking forward to flying into Manila. I would rather have avoided it, heard too many bad things & wasn't keen on placing myself where most people travel with bodyguards! It was the night before our flight & whilst we were in our room in Ho Chi Minh City we thought we'd check the status of our flights. ...

On the road on another bus heading to another country. It's been insane how much we've done & seen already. Not long now and we stop in one place for 2 whole weeks! We're so used to moving every few days that its gonna feel so weird to stop but I'm ready for it. In 11 weeks we've seen as much as we could squeeze in of 4 countries. We have one more little stop to do before downtime though. Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam. We are returning to Vietnam after the Ph...

Arghh! Another failed bus pick up. Managed to tuk tuk it to the bus stop before they left without us. Always great when you get on a bus load of people staring at you and muttering thinking we're just lazy and got there late. Not our fault the promised hotel Pickup didn't materialise. Oh well, we're here now so we settle into our seats for the 6 hour journey to Siem Reap. The bus company is actually good in that the buses are new, towel,drink & snack includ...