We’ve climbed the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia and we’ve been dazzled by the Grand Palace in Thailand but, to me, nothing compares to the temples in Bagan. The bus here felt long but wasn’t too bad. Getting on and off I also had someone carry my big rucksack for me for the first time […]
The City of Gold: Mandalay
We arrived in Mandalay bright and early after our luxurious VIP gold-class bus from Yangon. We had TV screens so I watched 2 films, played a game and listened to some 2007 chart toppers. At 6am we checked into our hostel which seemed clean and nice but we couldn’t have a bed yet so we […]
Yangon: The Run Down City Filled With Tradition
‘This is Burma’ wrote Rudyard Kipling. ‘It is quite unlike any other place you know about’. More than a century after he said this, I still believe it to be a valid statement. It is a country where men wear skirt-like longyi, women are covered in thanaka (traditional make up made from tree bark) and […]
Songkran aka Thai New Year
I love national holidays. I don’t just mean bank holidays which means a three day weekend and a four day working week. I love national holidays that bring a community or a nation together to celebrate something like Halloween at home or Hogueras in Alicante or New Years Eve in London. Ammun and I managed […]
The Weird and the Wonderful of a Jungle Survival Camp
After going to bed feeling a little bit unsure, we woke up bright and early with more excitement than nerves about what the next two days in the jungle would entail. We walked down the road to Mr Chart’s office for 8:30am, stopping for breakfast on the way and were joined by another guy called […]
A Little Piece of Pai
“Eat well before your journey to Pai because the journey will make you feel sick.” Exactly 767 fast bends in the mountainous road later, both us and our bags had made it from Chiang Mai to Pai in separate cars. Even during the 10 minute walk from the bus station to our hostel I already […]
The True Thailand in Chiang Mai
After two weeks island hopping in very westernised islands filled with western people, it has been really nice to return to cities where I can witness Thai people just going about their daily lives, doing everyday things. I really feel like Ammun and I have got the true taste of Thailand in Chiang Mai and […]
A Flying Visit To Phuket
After our boat and hour long bus transfer to our hostel we were absolutely pooped. I think two weeks of constant drinking and then three nights of late night partying in a row in Koh Phi Phi took it out of us a bit so Ammun and I had a good rest while Tom packed […]
Three Run Free in Koh Phi Phi
Koh Phi Phi has probably been the most westernised island we’ve been to which has had its pros and cons. We had to get 2 boats and two busses to get here from Koh Tao and once we were walking to our hostel I couldn’t help but think of how different it is to Vietnam […]
Koh Tao And My First Scuba Diving Experience
Ammun and Tom are obsessed with Mexican food. This is a fact I’ve know about their relationship for a very long time now so when I first started looking at hostels on Koh Tao and came across one called Taco Shack Hostel that only serves Mexican food, their faces lit up brighter than the Thai […]