We travelled from Milford sound straight to Queenstown, which was a long drive but was well worth it. Queenstown is like a small compact ski resort with huge mountains covered in snow in the distance, a large lake and it is known as the home town for adrenaline seekers. On our first morning there we arrived very early so Peter could enquire about booking a bundgy jump, expecting to have to wait a few days, however the lady said right you can go in two hours. To fill the two hour gap we went and stocked up on an infamous ferg [View Full Entry]

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The flight to nz was with air new Zealand, which are now our favourite airline due to the fantastic food, service and entertainment system! We arrived in nz feeling rather sleepy due to the lack of sleep the night before and how early we got up for the flight. We picked up our Jucy hire car called "el cheapo" (Pete wants me to state that was the only car left, but really we know we would of gone for the el cheapo anyway) and headed straight for Kaikoura. It was a beautiful drive to kaikora and only two hours north of [View Full Entry]

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Our flight to Melbourne was uneventful, which is a good thing I suppose! From the airport we negotiated public transport to St Kilda - where our hostel was! This area of Melbourne is very cool, we loved it, it had a real cool, trendy urbanite scene - and had a beach for good measure! We chilled here all day, good food with some wine! Good way to start of our time in Melbourne! Whilst in St Kilda we ate in a really cool, quirky resturant called "Lentil as Anything"! The food was to die for, it was all vegetarian and lentil [View Full Entry]

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After Noosa we drove of to Rainbow beach to meet Peter's friends and head of to Fraser Island! Rainbow is a tiny place, with just three hostels down one small road - in which we camped! Apparently its called rainbow beach because there are different coloured sands in certain parts - we didn't see them, we were more interested in having a drink! Needless to say we got rather pissed on jugs of Stella for £5, played drunk table tennis and generally farted about - good night! The first night we managed to fall asleep without wishing we had air con, [View Full Entry]

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Ah, we arrive in Oz! The flight seemed pretty quick, partly due to Rox being asleep and me having movies on demand! It was luxury to be able to go to a taxi driver, say where your going - and they know where it is - and you don't have to argue over a price!!! Back to normal!!! We made it to our hostel quite late, dumped our bags and went to the hostel club for some drinks! Our first few rounds were so expensive and we couldn't believe how people in there were buying jugs of beers one after the [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Vientien was an ordeal.... We had a mamoth 24 hour bus ride from Ha Noi down to Vinh, then across the boarder in to Laos, then on to the capital Vientien... Our pick up from our hotel in Ha Noi was by little mopeds. This would be fine if we didnt have 22Kg backpacks on and the guys didnt drive like maniacs... Rox screamed pretty much the whole way and Peter nearly pulled his guy of backwards everytime he pulled away! We were dropped of on some side street that stank of wee and waited whilst these guys brought more [View Full Entry]

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We arrive at Nha Trang around 5am with no hotel booked…. Off the bus we get, fight of all the guys trying to fit us both, with two big bags each onto a motorcycle and start our wandering to find a hotel. We wander down into the main tourist destination and start looking for hotels that look open…..only one….. The guy here takes us around 3 hotels, banging on the doors, waking the night workers up only for then to say they’re full… Now we know how Mary felt… We finally found one - the one the guy who took [View Full Entry]

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Peter forgot to mention how when we were in Angkor a small boy was persistently asking us to buy water from him even though we already had a bottle in our hands, Rox said No thank you we are ok where as Peter pretended he couldn't speak English. Despite this the boy suddenly started saying "OH MY GOD" in an American accent and said "you lady are so unfriendly". Even when we came back the little boy was still shouting at Rox saying how unfriendly she was to his friends so Rox finally reacted and said "No you need need to [View Full Entry]

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After the full moon party we moved on from Koh Pangan to Phi Phi. We were leaving at 6am, however our hostel was having a pool party - the music was so bloody loud and didn’t stop till about 5.55am - typical… We should have just stayed out all night (no one fancied it as we felt so bad on our last boat ride when hung-over)!!! Phi Phi was really cool… Nice and chilled out, we had a nice little bungalow… This however was situated about a mile up a bloody hill - by the time we got up there we [View Full Entry]

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To view our photos go tohttp://picasaweb.google.com/benstanlio [View Full Entry]

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