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As we finally make it to the other side of the world to take stock on our trip so far and settle into life in NZ here is the final travel installment before taking a well earned breather. After another pitstop in Singapore for our final taste of Asia, we headed south to Australasia aboard an Airbus A380. Several complimentary wines later we arrived in Sydney and found ourselves in a shared dorm for the same price as a penthouse anywhere in Asia. With the temperature dropping and our first taste of rain we were thankful to have been carrying our jeans and waterproofs for the last 4 months. When the clouds cleared it was time to take in the iconic images of Harbour Bridge and the Opera House before venturing to our first Australian beach ... read more

After dodging the red shirts in Bangkok we were back in civilisation in the cosmopolitan Singapore. Skyscrapers littering the skyline and modern roads and transport to get us from A to B. Staying with one of Vicky's old collegues and her family we were treated to a luxury apartment complete with communal pool. Despite it's over population the country was quiet, organised and CLEAN. Trying to keep Vicky away from the numerous shopping malls was the hard part, but settling for Singapore Slings in Raffles and enjoying the Quay side activity was not so hard. After re-grouping and leaving with full bellies and clean clothes we set off to Malaysia Borneo in search of endangered wildlife. Arriving in Sabah's capital Kota Kinabula the tropical wilderness unfolded. Staying in a city with jungle on your doorstep, boat ... read more

Hello again, a bit of a delay on the latest installment due to too much fun being had in the south of Thailand. Picking up on our ventures to Vietnam we decided to take the fast boat up the Mekong to the capital of Cambodia - Phnom Penh. After a dodgy waterside border crossing and a few backhanders we were on our way and travelling inland to the searing heat and arid landscape. We made it to the capital in time for the Cambodian New Year - with lots of fireworks ringing out over the city and lots of drunk tuc tuc drivers, offering to take you home - as we witnessed numerous bike crashes from the safety of a balcony restaurant. A country still in recovery from the atrocities of Pol Pot's regime - the ... read more

After an overnight bus ride we made our first overland/water border crossing in to Laos. The lack of rain during the monsoon season had left the river too low for slow boats and so instead we made our way by mini bus from the border to the northern sleepy town of Luang Nam Tha, for a taste of rural jungle village life and trekking. From here we headed to Luang Probang and the French Riviera... a trip along the Mekong River to villages and caves, turquiose blue waterfalls, early morning monks, buddahs (lots of), bike rides and night markets. By far our favourite place yet. Vang Vieng and the infamous tubing next where the parties continued well in to the small hours of the morning. We spent our first day there deciding we were both way ... read more

Nepal, although a relatively small country hosted some of the most diverse landscape including 8 of the ten highest mountains on earth. From our 5 day trek in the Himalayas experiencing glorious sunshine to 2 feet of snow on the highest mountains we crossed, we went down to Chitwan, a National Park where the rare one horned rhino's could be found in the wild, as well as Tigers, sloth bears, crocodiles, 5% of the worlds birdlife, bison and wild Asian elephants. A canoe about 15 centimetres from the water went down the river where we were to come face to face with crocodiles and rare birds all around, as well as snakes and catfish - although fortunately the water was too shallow for the latter at this time of year... It was then on foot where ... read more