So we left Bangkok on an over night bus (please let this be the last time we do an over night bus!) and arrived just outside the border in the early hours of the morning. We sorted out our visa over a coffee and were taken across, no major problems except I almost couldn’t get into the country as I don’t have any blank pages on my passport any more in which to get a visa! The guy managed to squeeze it onto the very last page just behind the emergency details bit. I don’t think that page can be used for visa or stamps, but he did it anyway. Ah, who cares! Half an hour later we arrived into Laos’s capital city Vientiane. We went hunting for a place to stay and as usual the ... read more

After spending new years eve in Bangkok we headed for the Cambodian border at Trat and after getting ripped off for our visas were soon on the road to Sihanoukville, a beach town on the south coast. Our main reason for going there was because we had heard about a place called Lazy Beach. It’s on an island called Koh Rong a few hours boat ride off the coast of Sihanoukville with nothing but 10 bungalows a bar/restaurant and a beautiful ‘lazy’ beach. We managed to get a cancellation booking which turned out to be pretty lucky as the place was booked out for weeks in advance. So the next morning we were on the beach with all of our stuff waiting for the boat to take us over. The boat couldn’t get too near to ... read more

We arrived into Darwin and man was it hot and humid. We checked into our rubbish hostel only to find out it was burgled the night before, nice comforting thought. Very early the next morning we started our tour round Kakadu National Park. We jumped in the back of a Toyota 4x4 with a few other people and made our way down. Our first stop was at the Adaleide River, to try to find crocodiles and hopefully feed them. We got on a small boat and cruised up the river. Within about two mins two crocs were following us. The boat driver rambled on in the background telling us really interesting facts such as “oh yes, crocs will eat just about anything.. including you..... and me of course!” with a really corny laugh thrown in, whilst ... read more

We had a beautiful crossing through Queen Charlotte Sound, the sun was shining and not a cloud to be seen. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case for most of the time in the south island though. First stop was Abel Tasman national park in the north, a bit of a wasted drive really because when we got there the weather was so bad that we just turned round and headed back the way we came. This was ok though because we headed to Marlborough and visited some of the vineyards and tasted some of their fine wines instead. There are a couple of glaciers on the west coast of the south island, the Franz Josef Glacier and the Fox Glacier, we stopped in the town of Franz Josef. The plan was to wake up early the next ... read more

We liked the location and price of the hostel we stayed in last time so we booked back into the Art Hostel in San Telmo. Didn’t do too much again - Buenos Aires is an easy place to chill. We did manage to do some more sight seeing though and eat a lot more steak! We went to Recoleta which is this graveyard, but no ordinary grave yard, it’s like a small city with massive tomb like buildings that house coffins of famous people (a bit of a morbid tourist attraction I know ) but everyone goes to see where Eva Peron (Evita) is buried - and it’s free! We killed more time buy shopping for gifts and hanging around different parts of the city. Finally, deciding that enough was enough we departed Buenos Aires and ... read more