Leaving Adelaide Our pickup time for our van was at the early hour of 9am. So after packing up the remainder of our stuff, we left that dingy hostel and set out across Adelaide in the taxi to our destination: the Apollo headquarters. It took a while, but we eventually found it and entered the office to pay all our remaining bills. After lots of money issues, and several bank cards being used, we were shown around our van (in literally a pit stop manner) and then he was all ours. We decided to shove our stuff in the back and [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Coogee finally After the most restless sleep of my life, which involved me getting up several times to watch some of the footie, Lizz came and woke me at 8am, giving ourselves two and a half hours to pack and tidy the house before Neville (our landlord) would come to inspect. We blitzed our way around the house, a much harder task than we’d anticipated (thanks Sian). Neville came round on time but naturally I wasn’t even dressed yet but we were soon packed up, deposit in hand (which was a surprise due to the broken bed) and off out [View Full Entry]

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After Cairns The flight back to Sydney was a strange event being alone but I soon arrived back to my beloved Coogee and met up with Lizz, who had kindly offered her room for me to stay in. Straight away we got dressed and headed out for our Tuesday night at the Gaff!! It felt even stranger when we saw all the OzIntro staff out but we had a good night with our dancing and drinking lots of jagerbombs! Over the next few days, Lizz and I just chilled out and I got to meet her new housemates: Sian, Lindsay, Niki, [View Full Entry]

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Heading even further down under The alarm going off at 5.15am was always going to be a nasty surprise, but it was even worse after having had only 3 hours sleep. But reluctantly, I got out of bed, got dressed, packed away the last of my belongings and headed out the door to find me a taxi. The trip from here on in went pretty smoothly. It took a while to get through check-in due to some large group of Italian School girls but I eventually boarded the plane to the delight of getting an emergency exit seat and slept most [View Full Entry]

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Arriving in Sydney I was still feeling pretty down about having left my life in Perth when my plane landed in Sydney and it was time for my next adventure. I collected my bag quickly and walked around the domestic arrivals area for several minutes looking for the OzIntro person collecting me. After my disaster in Perth with Travellers forgetting to collect me, I was not too optimistic. And sure enough there was no one there. So I sat down with my backpack and waited but luckily not for two long as a guy soon walked in and flashed me his [View Full Entry]

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Arriving in Perth My flight to Perth was highly uneventful and we arrived at the unusual hour of 12am, though by the time I got out of the airport it was more like 2am. I was sat at the very back of the plane so naturally I was one of the last to leave. As a result, I then had to queue to get through immigration, which was a lot easier than I had anticipated and I didn't require any of the documentation that I had been horribly stressing about in Hanoi (mostly bank statements!) I managed to pick my bag [View Full Entry]

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First stop on Geckos: the highlands of Dalat The bus ended up arriving in Dalat pretty late due to the 8 hour bus journey and I was very suprised to step off the bus and feel cold, a feeling I have not felt in a while! We checked in and got settled into our rooms and I was a bit miffied to find I was one of the few people that did not have a balcony in my room (because I was on my own in a single I would always be due to get the worst rooms!) That evening we [View Full Entry]

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Entering Vietnam The journey into the land of Nam was by far the easiest yet! The bus journey went fairly quickly and we soon arrived at the border where we stopped for lunch and I chatted with a friendly South African couple before the bus company we were travelling with pretty much sorted out all our papers for crossing over and thus we were through in a flash. The only bad point about the whole scenario was that I looked at my visa properly for the first time whilst going through border control and realised that the slightly idiotic lady in [View Full Entry]

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The journey to Siem Reap After finally convincing Lucy and Dave to come with me, we arose one fine morning at the reasonably hour of 9am to grab a taxi to the northern bus terminal in Bangkok, where we were able to quickly grab a bus to take us to the border town of Araya Prathet. After briefly (and firmly) pushing off a Thai guy who was sitting next to me and being too friendly (he soon sat elsewhere), we had a reasonably quiet journey. Five hours later, we arrived at the bus station and manage to haggle a tuk-tuk to [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Bangkok After having spent our final day in Bangkok, myself, Lucy and Dave headed in a taxi towards the outskirts of Bangkok and to the Southern Bus terminal, where upon arrival we were told our bus was leaving in 20 minutes. So we headed down to the departure area and had just enough time to use the toilet before we set off on our 14 hour journey to Phuket. Having made the decision to go it alone rather than to go with a tour agency from the Kho San road, we happened to be the only westerners on the bus. [View Full Entry]

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