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Hi there,

This is our first ever time "blogging" so hope it goes well and doesn't bore anybody. The best thing about this blog is if you subscribe the website emails you when we've updated it so you don't need to keep checking.

For those who don't know (surely there isn't a living soul who doesn't know???) the aim of our trip is to get to Australia without getting on a plane, after extensive research we reckon this probably isn't going to happen once we get to Indonesia, but we will try our hardest to achieve this goal and will definately go the furthest we can go by train/boat/bus/bike/tuk tuk.

We're off on the 1st June 2009, first stop France....our rough route is Europe/Russia/Mongolia/China/Nepal/South East Asia/Oz.

We hope you enjoy following our travels as much as we will be enjoying ourselves not working and generally bumming about :-).

Love G & T

London to Sydney Overland
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By Tony and George
October 29th 2009

Cambodia - Country Number 15 - Sleepy Kampot Asia » Cambodia » South » Kampot

The Old Bridge - destroyed during the Khmer Rouge and repaired by the locals

“There is no corruption in Cambodia, none at all! The country, like all of its neighbours, is commission based, that’s why it’s so easy to do things here, everybody will help you because they earn a small fee for their effort.” Kampot Survival Guide (KSG) After arriving back in Ha Tien from Phu Quoc we went back to the travel agency to arrange our Cambodian visas and transport to Kampot a town on the South Coast of Cambodia. Our visas were $25 (inc $5 charge for doing it in half an hour) and we paid $20 each to get to Kampot [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 25th 2009

Phu Quoc - The Jewel of Vietnam Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta » Phu Quoc Island

The Beach by the Beach Club

Our last stop in Vietnam was Phu Quoc Island. Phu Quoc is a tropical island surrounding by white beach’s and turquoise water and is a great way to while away a few days incidentally, the Vietnamese government is planning to make the island a massive tourist destination, they are building an international airport on the island so that tourists can fly in and out of Phu Quoc without having to go on to the mainland, there is even talk of foreigners not needing a visa to visit Phu Quoc at all and having spoken to an English chap when we were [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 21st 2009

Meandering Along the Mekong Delta Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta » My Tho

Village on the Mekong

The adventure begins with an early start and this sets the scene for the whole adventure on the Mekong - early mornings! We were debating how to attack the Mekong (not literally) adventure, do it on our own or through a tour. So to cost things up we stumbled into Delta Adventures and a tour cost about 18$ US per day each including accomodation, some meals and with some cool activities, so we decided to go with that, we planned a four day three night trip with a home stay and the plan was to abandon the tour in Chau Doc [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 18th 2009

Saigon, The Cu Chi Tunnels and Lots of Cocktails Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

The Best T Shirt Ever

Next stop on our tour of Vietnam was Ho Chi Min City itself, formally known as Saigon and fondly still called Saigon by all the locals, in fact we think it is only tourists who call it good old HCMC!!!! Anyway we had a couple of days here to potter around, it is so much bigger than Hanoi and takes a lot longer to get to all the sights. We only took in the War Remnants Museum (Formally called Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes), this museum was amazing, and we must confess brought a lump to our throats, it [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 16th 2009

The Central Highlands - Dalat Asia » Vietnam » Central Highlands » Da Lat

Gerberas

Dalat, home to Easy Riders, Dalat wine, flowers and when we were there plenty of rain!!!! After a few weeks on the coast, we decided it was time to head inland to the Central Highlands. It was gorgeous up there apart from the rain. We didn’t do much when we arrived, we really wanted to do the Easy Rider Tour from Dalat to HCMC but it was 3 to 5 days which we didn’t have. The Easy Rider Tours are local chaps who take you from one destination to another along the Ho Chi Min Highway across the Central Highlands on [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 13th 2009

Hitting the Beaches of Nha Trang and Getting Burnt to a Crisp Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast » Nha Trang

7am in the Morning and the Beach to Ourselves

Ahhh the Heat, Sun and Gorgeous Beach of Nha Trang. We spent 3 nights here, and moved every night, for many reasons, one being the first place we stayed was $22 where everywhere else was $10. We booked because G got nervous that there would be no where, it turned out we were offered rooms for $5 on our walk to our $22 place, Backpackers Hotel. This was nice but they wouldn’t let us check in till 2pm, having arrived at 6am we weren’t that impressed, luckily we were so excited about getting to the beach we said okay, donned our [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 11th 2009

Hoi An - Come to My Shop???? Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast » Hoi An

Sleeping on the Job

We headed to Hoi’ an after another early start and annoyingly spending 2 hours driving around Hue picking people up! We arrived in Hoi’ an at the usual hotel the bus decides to stop at with both us being quickly woken up and a bit disorientated with a woman waving a map of Hoi’ an in our faces showing where her hotel (the Grasslands) is in relation to Hoi’ an - ‘300 metres” she continually assures me. Half of the bus was alighting and walking down the road, so we decided to look at this room she’s selling, the hotel has [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 9th 2009

Hot Hue and Doing the DMZ Asia » Vietnam » North Central Coast » Hué

Perfume River

After a 15 hour journey on the lovely sleeper bus from Hanoi - note the sarcasm these sleeper buses are not lovely, your feet lay in a enclosed box reminiscent of a coffin and if you are taller than 5 foot its rather uncomfortable, if you are a large chap /chapess you will discover that it is rather narrow, T opts for the centre aisle as the window seats offer a view but only the movement of one arm as the other is pressed against the window but for $15 you can’t complain too much! The bus is a coach and [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 3rd 2009

Avoiding Being Run Over in Hanoi, Chilling in Halong Bay and Turning 30 in Vietnam Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

T After Some Yummy Street Food

We spent some time in Hanoi just chilling and taking in the madness that is the motorbike capital. Our first day few days were spent getting to know the old quarter and finding the best places for a good beer and snack. For some reason we have got lazy and have no eagerness to visit places of interest. We bumped into Jake the Aussie who did our magical mystery tour with us on our second day and he showed us to a fab Bia Hoi place, this place is 3,000 dong more than the place all the tourists go too, so [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
October 2nd 2009

Our Magical Mystery Tour to Vietnam Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

Good Morning Vietnam

The event started off in a pretty normal manner we booked an overnight bus to take us to the border town of PingXiang from Yangshou. We found the notion of not ‘needing’ a ticket a tad strange but not completely unheard of. So as the clock struck 18:30 our taxi van arrived; we boarded the van with Jake an Aussie dude and headed to Yangshou. We arrived in Yangshou and the taxi driver walked us around to the CITS ticket office and relayed our information to the woman and then leaves, the CITS women (number 2 in the chain) gives us [View Full Entry]

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