🥶It's worth mentioning that we are writing this whilst in New Zealand, quite far behind on the updates - we'll get there. It's also been below freezing overnight which is strange looking back on pictures of 40 degree heat and sweat. After Hoi An
After the overnight train journey to Hoi An, we arrived at 11am. We had a bit of an encounter with dodgy taxi drivers pretending to be our booked Grab, and then our actual booked Grab driver arrived, spoofing his GPS location to get our ride - we had been warned
Our early train from Ho Chi Minh arrived in Nha Trang in the early afternoon. We got a Grab to our hotel and checked in. We haven't taken photos of everywhere we have stayed, but this place for £15 a night including a rooftop pool was pretty good!
Our coach from Phnom Penh took us to the Cambodian/Vietnamese border for some lunch in a strange barbed wire compound, then through the Vietnamese side and into Ho Chi Minh City. Although we quickly learned that many of the locals call it Saigon still. We went straight to our
The coach from Bangkok to Siem Reap took about 8 hours in total although with a a few breaks, very comfy seats and the border crossing (which was so lax, we've had stricter train ticket checks), it was quite pleasant! We had been told by multiple people that
After our adventure in Khao Sok we were back on the overnight train to Bangkok, this time in 1st class (just so we could compare 😉). It was a lot more private than 2nd class and we probably both got a better nights sleep. We arrived at about 10am so after
🐸Quick warning to mamma HB: this post has lots of mentions and photos of the ‘f’ word so maybe get Pops to read it first or hide behind a cushion 💗 We arrived in Khao Sok after a long journey in a minivan, which unexpectedly stopped for 2 hours and changed
We had researched Koh Lanta quite a bit before arriving and had a day-by-day plan which soon fell to pieces when we decided we actually wanted to rest. So, a lot of our time in Koh Lanta was spent reading books on the hammock, chilling by the pool and the
Koh Samui After a ferry ride and minivan from Koh Tao, we arrived in Koh Samui around lunchtime and checked in to our hotel. This time, it was Treehouse Bungalows on Silent Beach. We had a hippie bungalow about 5m from the beach with a hammock outside - very relaxing
Day 1 - Sleeping Following our overnight train from Bangkok, we arrived at Chumphon at around 4am, waited at the station for just over an hour, munching on the snacks and granola which we bought at the mall in Bangkok. A well organised van then took us to the pier
Day 1 After a fairly late arrival into Bangkok we checked in to a private room in a hostel, which is really no different to a hotel. The following morning we got a 'chicken rice big' and two bowls of soup (50B~£1.10) from a stall on
We arrived in Manila after a pretty stunning flight from Boracay including a good view of the Taal Volcano! We decided to stay in BGC (an area in Metro Manila) rather than the city of Manila to spend some time catching up with planning, washing and sleeping before travelling to