Hello all, Since I last wrote Ian and I have traveled South overland through Laos, which has involved many bus trips but none have been too bad (with the exception of locals being sick, sometimes in a bag and sometimes not), one sleeper bus had proper lie down beds and we managed to get almost a nights sleep.Our favorite place was staying in the '4000 Islands' area of the Mekong, on the Cambodian border. Where we could travel around by boat and bike, we also...

Also in Laos sorry that I deleted the blog the other day by accident you will have to trust mycousins that it was good whilst i try to retrive it. in the meantime a short update... Before embarking on our adventures, Kirst and I thought it prudent to visit a travel clinic to see about injections and health issues on our upcoming trip etc. The doctor in question advised us to generally try toavoid sleeping in places near pigs and fowl to minimise the risk of avi...

Good Morning Vietnam, Good Evening Laos Hello All; apologies that it has been a long time but we have been rather busy! On the last blog we had just left China and arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam with only a limited plan. Basically following a day in Hanoi mooching about and ...shopping,(both very easy to do there), we ended up going on a tour to halong bay on the understanding that it was generally the easiest way to see it and to stay on a junk etc. The tour was good...

Hong Kong and On Our travels through a small part of china began with the flight into Shenzen, the industrial scale of which left me speechless as we flew over one big industrial site for about the last 15 minutes of the flight. This is the place where people live in the factories andit is the richest part of china, it is a little imposing to say the least but when you see the difference between the countryside way of life and the cities you can understand y...

Evening Allwell this is our last evening in borneo and it has been a great start to the trip. We have just got back from Bario and both wished that we could have stayed longer as it is truely unique place and feel. Our initial attempts to get there failed due to a cancelled flight during airport visit number 11. The bario flight was cancelled and as such we spent a day in Miri and consoled ourselves by getting Malaysian massages. Kirst and I have both decided not...