Yesterday we went trekking and kayaking. There was a slight change of plan as someone had died in one of the villages we were going to visit so understandably they did not want to bring a group of tourists there. It worked out well for us as the kayaking was great and we ended up paying less then everyone else as the trekking was cheaper than the combi tour. We walked for about 3 hours and stopped off at one village before having lunch. Then we got into the kayaks and kayaked down river for about 10Km. The kayaking was great [View Full Entry]

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Just spent our first full day in Luang Prabang and as the title of the blog suggests it is lovely. It is a very chilled out kind of place with loads of great restaurants and cafés. It also has a great night market where I have bought far too much stuff. It is NEVER all going to fit in my rucksac! Today we visited some temples including Wat Xieng Thong which is one of the best temples we have visited so far. It was just beautiful with loads of amazing mosaics. Needless to say I was very snap happy. We spent [View Full Entry]

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We are now in Luang Prabang in Laos and it is cold! Well maybe not cold exactly but considerably chillier than Chiang Mai. When we arrived it was 19 degrees and now it is a lot cooler than that. I have got my jeans on and a warm top. Being that we don't really have any warm clothes we can only hope that it does not get any colder! Due to time and the fact we did not want to spend two days on a boat we flew to Luang Prabang. The plane was pretty small and because of that the [View Full Entry]

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What a busy 2 days we have had! Spent yesterday exploring some of the many temples of Chaing Mai. There are loads of them. We tried to limit ourselves to a few so we did not get "templed out!" Our first stop was Wat U Mong (yes, I know it has a funny name) which is a bit out of the city centre. We went there by tuk tuk which is always fun once you have negotiated a price you are happy to pay. This time we had where we wanted to go written down in Thai. However hard we try [View Full Entry]

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We are now in Chiang Mai which is in the north of Thailand. We opted to fly rather than take a 10 hour bus or train trip. We went with AirAsia which is Asia's answer to Ryanair. Apart from the fact the flight was delayed for an hour it was good. We had a pretty lazy day on our fist day as we had to get up early to catch the flight. We did visit one temple - Wat Chiang Man Today we went to the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery school which was really good. The day started with a tour [View Full Entry]

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We have made it to Bangkok. The journey was very long. I think it took just over 20 hours between us leaving our house to us arriving at our hotel in Bangkok. This was not helped by the fact that the plane was delayed for over an hour. We had already been at Heathrow for hours when we found this out. The flight wasn't too bad though and they let us sleep all the way without keep pestering us with food and drink. Managed to fit in one film in during the 11 hour flight as the rest of the time [View Full Entry]

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Several months have elapsed since my last blog, and therefore our last travels. To rectify this we decided a short trip to the Loire Valley was in order. We flew to Tours (cheap Ryanair flights) and decided to base ourselves there. We arrived in Tours mid morning and aside from a slight hotel hiccup we were soon ready to explore the town. We saw the Cathedral, The Loire itself and various nice squares and buildings. I saw my first château! Tim, having already visited everywhere in France in his youth, had already seen plenty of châteaux but I was impressed. The [View Full Entry]

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It's true! The honeymoon is indeed over and we are back in the UK. After driving over 4300KM around Namibia without any CDs to put in the CD player and no radio stations to receive on the radio and only our own singing to amuse ourselves the trip is over. We saw (and ate!) springbok, kudu, gemsbok and ostrich. We saw (but obviously didn't eat) elephants, zebras, lions, black faced impalas, rhino and meerkats amongst other things. Tim drank 25 bottles of Windhoek larger and 15 glasses/bottles of Hansa/Tafel. I drank 22 glasses of wine. We ate more food than you [View Full Entry]

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We are at our last stop on our tour and we are cold! We are in the Kalahari and although the sky is bright blue and the sun is shining it is only about 10 degrees. It was actually freezing last night. We are staying in a very nice bungalow on stilts that over looks the desert. The first night we were here we were the only people in the whole place! Tim claims he booked the whole place out as a treat! On our first afternoon we went on a cheetah feeding drive. They have 4 cheetahs that cannot be [View Full Entry]

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Today was another long drive, over the normal 4 hours! The road from Luderitz was mainly tarred so it was an easy drive. We stopped on the way to see some Desert Horses; these have evolved to go without water for up to 4 days, far longer than Tim can go without a cold Windhoek lager on this trip! We arrived in time for lunch at Canon Lodge, one of the most attractive places we've stayed, it's lots of bungalows built around huge rock boulders that sometimes are partially built into the rooms. We spent a lot of time watching the [View Full Entry]

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