Hello all, Well we finally forced ourselves to leave beach living behind and set off to another country - Vietnam! We were looking forward to exploring a new country and I was très excited to catch up with my frieeeeeeeend from home Kate, who's been living out here for the past six months. Another long bus journey later and a hairy moment at the border (rewind to Vietnam embassy incident!) we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City and were so happeeeee to see a friendly face from home!! Over the next couple of days we would be staying in Kate’s very swanky apartment and lapping up such delights as nutella, pizza, pasta, irn-bru, chocolate éclairs from the bakers and lots more! We were loving the home comforts of this little expat community, I even got a ... read more

After a long journey from Siem Riep we arrived into what felt like a very manic, claustrophobic city. First on our agenda was to make our way to the Vietnamese Embassy to hand in our passports for a visa. After this we were taken to what is described in our guide book as a romantic, peaceful area – and I’m sure if you can get past the smell of sewage it would be! Already we were not off on the right foot with Phnom Penh. On this note we decided we didn’t want to stay here for 3 days waiting for our visa to be processed. 40mins after handing our passports in we were back at the embassy to reclaim them. With no visa the ‘official’ tried to charge us $40 dollars to get them back!! ... read more

Hello hello, So after a few days of relaxation (as I say travelling is tough work) on Ko Chang, we set off for Cambodia. After an all day bus journey, we arrived late at the border crossing town of Aranya Pathet and were reluctant to cross the border as Siem Reap (our destination) was still a further 2 hour journey. As always a Tuk Tuk driver was at our service and insisted that he take us to the border. We are on our way, then all of a sudden we turn off onto a dark side street where a little man appears from nowhere shouting "WELCOME TO CAMBODIA!!" - mmm... nice try pal! Despite their hardest efforts to convince us that at the other end of this dark road lay Cambodia we decided to turn back ... read more

Sawatdii (hello) from Bangkok!! After 17 hours of flying we arrived in Bangkok bleary eyed and where suddenly awoken with the hustling bustling circus that seems to be Bangkok. Already we were feeling a million light years away from Africa! We managed to navigate our way through all the madness and arrived at our hotel, which after a month of camping was pure luxury - hot shower,tv, huuuge bed (with pillows), a fridge. The list goes on, we were loving the home comforts and as much as we miss Motel 6, this was absolute bliss! We spent our three days in Bangkok wondering around and taking in the Thai way of live. We quickly learned that street food is the way to go, If it's good enough for the locals... Delicious phad thai for a mere ... read more

Hello from Cape Town! We made the short trip down from Stellenbosch a few days back - our last official leg of the trip! We arrived at our hostel Ashanti Lodge - very flash with amazing views of Table Mountain from the bar. Without too much hanging around we thought we would make the most of the day, and the weather, and head for the mountain. We took the cable car up which, to our surprise was absolutely rapid! By the time we had got to the top and our ears had stopped popping we had time to savour the stunning view. We had some ice cream and took in Cape Town from above - has there ever been a more perfect setting for a city?! Claire looked into an abseil down but unfortunately it was ... read more