Thailand Well we arrived late in Bangkok after another now typical Kirsty and ian refusal to opt for the organised tourist transport, the local buses are a bit cheaper and slot more colourful but they do take a bit longer as a rule. Our first full day was Sunday, Sunday was a shopping day as in Bangkok there is a Market on the weekend with an estimated 10,000 stalls. In short, it sells pretty much everything you can imagine: from food (live and dead) to designe...

Si Phan Don and on and on. Though I know it is all very relative, traveling can on some days be quite stressful. Constantly on the move, sometimes it feels like everyone is trying to rip you off and buses are i'm convinced inherently evil, (show me one happy bus driver and I'll show you 50 psychotic maniacs). Si phan don was not one of those occasions. It is near the southern Laos border where the mighty Mekong temporally splits into many different small ...

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...