From Bangkok we headed South, our first stop on the way to Kuala Lumpur was Koh Tao. We resisted the urge to go diving as it's well known for being the cheapest place in the world to achieve your certifications but we weren't that interested so gave it a miss. Koh Tao was beautiful, white sandy beaches completely clear sea and coral just 10m or so from the shore for you to explore with just a snorkel. We stumbled across some accidental luxury whilst we were there...

Bloody brilliant Burma. When we last updated you all we had just arrived in Burma and were unsure of what to expect. Yangon was slightly daunting and had a sort of India like feel about the place. It was busy but not so much you couldn't move and it was dirtier than the rest of South East Asia. The city itself was very interesting with British style buildings, pagodas dotted across the city's skyline and areas home to mainly Indian families and also to Chinese ...

Food, beer, elephants and aeroplanes. Travelling; week 7 & 8 Thailand is a country where you can feel slightly more at home than in the rest of Southeast Asia. For a while it's nice to be able to go to a 7-eleven, eat a magnum gold and ride on some relatively good transport. After that you want a bit more excitement, a bit more of not knowing whether your bus will take 10 or 15 hours to get to it's destination and sometimes it can be nice not knowing the ac...

From Vientiane to Chiang Mai After realising there was very little to do in Vientiane we made sure we didn't waste any time there and took a bus to Vang Vieng the next afternoon. We took in a few more temples in the morning before leaving and caught the bus. We were heading to the place not long ago that was responsible for 25 traveller deaths per year. Tubing in Vang Vieng was and still is the main attraction. It involves hiring a large inner tube from a lorry...

Good morning from Laos. This blog is especially for Judith as I know she's waiting with baited breath for the latest instalment of our blog. As you might have guessed we're in Laos now and we've had an action packed week since we last posted so prepare to be amazed. We were in Hue last when we posted and we'd just arrived from riding the Hai Van pass. We settled down in Hue and already booked in to a hotel for 2 nights to give us some time to recover and chill...