The main attraction of the coastal town of Mui Ne is the sand dunes. White ones and red ones. We arrived here Sunday afternoon and found a great little hotel with a pool. Very welcome after a long bus journey. The hotel was right on the beach front but the beach or sea wasn't very inviting at all. Probably been to too many beautiful islands recently! We took a short walk along the one road that makes up the town to check out the bars and restaurants so we knew where to go for dinner later that night then spent the rest of the afternoon by the pool. On Monday we joined up with two American girls and hired the hotel's jeep and driver to take us to the sand dunes about 25 kms away. First ... read more

We took the hour and a half bus ride to the Cu Chi Tunnels, they're located 30 kms from Ho Chi Minh City. It is an area where the Viet Cong lived. They dug tunnels to live in to protect themselves during the 1960s/ 70's war with America. The tunnels stretch for for over 200 kms as far as the Cambodian border. The Viet cong set many traps to stop the American soldiers and thus the Americans were unable to flush them out so they turned their artillery and bombers on the area, transforming it to a moonscape. Some of the tunnels have been preserved and visitors are able to get into the narrow openings, the tunnels are accessed by trapdoors hidden on the jungle floor. They were an ingenious system that included living quarters, hospitals ... read more

Kuala Lumpur is becoming as familiar to us as Bangkok. The great thing about familiarity is that it's easy getting around on public transport. Kuala Lumpur has some of the best transport systems we've come across so far, the mono rail and the light rapid transport train take you around the city without the need for roads and thus traffic. It's also the best place for cheap Air Asia flights to other parts on S. E. Asia. This is the reason we're back here again. Tomorrow we fly to Ho Chi Ming City in Vietnam for our next adventure. After a 7 hour frustrating bus ride we finally arrived here. The journey was supposed to take 5 hours but they omitted to tell us that there would be a 50 kilometre detour to drop a group ... read more

Next stop: The island of Ko Lipe; it’s more or less the most southerly island before the Malaysian border. We left the island of Ko Ngai on Friday and headed to Satun, we’d been told that it was possible to go to the Tamalang Pier there and get our Thai visa renewed so we figured once that was done we could go off to Ko Lipe but I was sceptical. The boat to Ko Lipe left at 12.30 so in case of any hitches we arrived at the pier soon after 8am on Saturday morning. I was right things weren’t that simple, the only way to renew the visas was to get stamped out of Thailand, go to a destination in Malaysia, then come back and get stamped into Thailand again. The problem here was that ... read more

This island and it’s laid back way of life is really beginning to grow on us. Alan, an American we met at our resort, was renting the tree house there so of course we just had to climb up and see it. It’s right at the front overlooking the beach. From his veranda there was an amazing view of the many neighbouring islands. A perfect spot to watch sunset. I don’t think I could take the ladder on a regular basis though especially as there is no bathroom so after ‘ lights out’ it could be tricky. I don’t suppose Tarzan had that worry, mind you he wouldn’t have been sat in a bar drinking Chang beer until 10pm! Today we made the crazy decision to swim to the closest island, it didn’t look too ... read more