Matt and Kerry

After getting wet over Songkran in Bangkok we took an overnight bus North and crossed the friendship bridge into Laos and headed into the capital Vientiene. For a capital city there were almost no tall buildings and very few people so we decided to spend only one night here. After something quick to eat we enjoyed a day walking around seeing what sights there were to be seen including an Asian virsion of an Arc de Triomphe! We took a bus to Vang Vieng which has become famous because of the cluster of bars that line a part of the river that you float down in a tube while bar hopping (of course we were coming here). We booked a trip to the elephant cave, where we sat in a tube and pulled ourselves by a ... read more

Another over night bus later and we landed in Nha Trang and found our cheapist hotel room yet, $6 a night at this very cute family run place. We had the best Indian food outside of India here for a great price. We were able to squeeze a day of warm weather out of Vietnam and spend a day at VinPearl Entertainment Park. For $18 you got a cable car to and from the island, entry to the water park, the aquarium, all the rides and all the games in the arcade, we spend the full day being really big kids. We walked to the large seated Budda on the outskirts of town and enjoyed the walk back in the rain. Matt was a little disappointed that Daniel wasn't here to play in the massive waves ... read more

We thought that since we had to transfer here from Thailand on our way to India, now Vietnam, we would spend a few days on an adventure in KL. We stayed with a couch surfer, Eric, who lives around 10Km south of the centre. We spent the first night going for some Malaysian food, which is pretty similiar to Indonesia with them being so close. We had a full day of sight seeing with Eric being kind enough to be our host. We walked through China Town, Central Market, where for the first time we both tried the fish therapy on our feet, it cost us 10 ringet for 15 minutes (£2) for both of us! After we both stopped laughing we actually enjoyed it. We visited Merdeka Square and the KL Memorial Library, Eric also ... read more

We arrived at Phuket and headed to Patong Beach, which is a massive holiday resort full of Europeans. We had a week before Mark (Kerry's brother) arrived and although Patong was double the price for a room then Phuket Town, Patong had everything that anyone would need for a relaxing week. We spent time at the beach sunbathing and swimming, walking around seeking cheap food and even an interesting trip to the hospital at 5am due to an ear infection that Kerry got. All is well now after a course of antibiotics and no swimming. Mark spent a night in Bangkok, where he was robbed of 2000 Baht (£40) by an Englishman before he flew to Phuket where Kerry picked him up. We had already booked three trips before Mark arrived and decided it would be ... read more

The flight into Bali was short and sweet as we arrived on a new continent. We paid for our visas, had our passports checked and then who knows what happened for the next 15 minutes after that....... We were asked so many times, can I carry your bag, where you going, you need a taxi, that the 15 minutes from leaving passport control now seems like a blur of fast moving objects around us. We decided that we were just going to 'wing it' when we arrived and didn't have any where booked to stay, we didn't even have a map or a guide book for help. So Matt haggled with one of the million taxi drivers to take us into Kuta, 50,000 Rupiah (Rp), £1 = 14,000Rp so around £3.50 and so off we went. ... read more