Sorry I haven’t updated sooner but the last couple of weeks have been really crazy! We spent just over two weeks travelling up the east coast from Sydney to Cairns and 4 days in Alice Springs and the Red Centre. We started the road trip in Sydney where we picked up our Jucy camper. It fitted 4 people in and was about the size of a 7 seater car. The back converted to a double bed and it had a top box that also converted to a double bed. We left Sydney and all met at VB’s house where we had lunch. There was 2 South Africans, 3 English, 1 Egyptian, 1 Saudi Arabian and 3 ausi’s in our group! Our first stop was Port Macquarie where we stayed with Chris’s cousins. Their house was so ... read more

It’s been a busy few days! We arrived on the 23rd and the flight wasn’t too bad. We flew from Bangkok to Melbourne and in the duty free shop we decided to purchase notebooks, which nearly made us miss our connecting flight to Sydney as the shop assistant was really slow! On christmas eve, we climbed sydney harbour bridge which was amazing! The views were brilliant and it was really magical! For the first few days we stayed at a hostel on Bondi beach. On Christmas eve we were able to stay on the beach as the weather was really good and I even got a little burnt wearing SPF 50! However it rained every day after at Bondi, including Christmas day! For xmas we bought tickets to the ‘Sunburnt’ Christmas event on Bondi. The weather ... read more

Travelled to Koh Samet in air conditioned minibuses which was a nice change. Stopped at starbucks on the way for a toasted BLT on brown malted bread! We took a ferry from Rayong pier to the island which took about 40 minutes as it was a slow boat very old and rickety. They threw your luggage from the jetty to the boat and I was really worried they were going to drop mine into the sea! When we were dropped off at the island my mosi repellent fell out of the bag and as I bent down to get it the weight of my backpack pulled me off balance and I ended up on the floor! The guest house was sparse and we decided to nick name it the 'prison cell' as there were bars on ... read more

Trekking week, or trekking two days as it became! We left and arrived at the resort, which initially seemed really nice. However Naomi moved her bed and underneath was some huge cockroaches, which we trapped with glasses and took out of the room. The next day we went to phutoei national park and set up camp. On tuesday we started trekking to our campsite for the next 2 nights. We trekked through the rainforest/jungle and the guide was literally macheting the trees out of the way. We had to cross rivers and climb up a waterfall, so I got wet and so did my stuff. On wednesday we walked to the caves and went inside. It was really fun, we saw bats and huge huntsman spiders. To get out of one of the caves we had ... read more

It's been one busy weekend! On Saturday we went in to Singburi town on the free bus and relaxed at the pool, then after a few hours we went shopping for a picnic lunch for our trip the next day! That evening we went to a thai festival and we were the only westerners there. It was really strange there were thousands of people infront of the Hero monument and they just parted for us and so we go places right at the front and we were on thai tv!We had to pretend to sing the Thai national anthem whilst waving flags and then there was some thai dancing all while being broadcast live. Some of our group had gone away for the weekend and saw us on the tele in their hotel rooms! After the ... read more