Tour de Fife

Well, all good things must come to an end I guess - I just can't believe how fast the last 6 months seem to have gone! And then when I look back at all we have done over just half a year, it seems like we must have been gone way longer! So as Adam explained on the last blog update, we decided to skip India for a few reasons and instead spend a month unwinding in Thailand before heading back home to Sydney. When we arrived in Bangkok from Nepal we did not anticipate how we would feel towards it - it was like being back home already! I remember our first ever trip to Thailand 2 years ago, and how we experienced true 'culture shock' upon arriving in manic Bangkok; the smells, the colours, ... read more

Hello from the 'teardrop' island of Sri Lanka, which I must say has made quite an impression on us! It takes the craziness of South East Asia to a whole new level and is certainly helping to prepare us for India! The people are really lovely and friendly (even when they are trying to scam us) and make the generally wonderfully hospitable S E Asian's look like they all are all joyless supermarket checkout chicks (no offence anyone). The weirdest thing is, even though Sri Lanka is becoming more frequented by western tourists we still feel like celebrities whenever we go anywhere! We are constantly being stared at and the service and hospitality we are offered is just ridiculously amazing! We have both started playing a little game where when we are stared at by yet ... read more

Hey everyone, Since we were a bit slack on our last blog from Laos you are now getting another update from a whole new country only a couple of days later! Well, we flew into Siem Reap from Vientiene to meet our friends Dave and Komi. We were pleasantly surprised with the city. It had a great vibe to it, well in the 'Old market area' (i.e. tourist hub), where we were anyway. Lots of boutique shops & market stalls for shopping and an great choice of restaurants & bars. The taxi we got from the airport dropped us off at a decent looking place called 'Angkor River Star Guesthouse' for US$15 a night (all of Cambodia uses US dollars as main currency - the national currency of Riel is only used for small purchases or ... read more

Hello again - this time from the wonderful north of Thailand! Where we left of last time, we had just finished our openwater dive course and were planning our next destination within Thailand. Due to having spent longer in Southern Thailand than anticipated we realised that we needed to get up north to see what we wanted to see before our visa's run out on the 11th of May. Therefore we decided to skip Koh Phangan and the full moon party for now and maybe do this when we come back to Thailand through Bangkok after Vietnam.This will be in a few more weeks so hopefully the situation in Bangkok might be better too. So, decision made, we booked our tickets to take us all the way from Koh Tao to Chiang Mai, via continuous travelling ... read more

Well, the last time we updated this blog we were leaving our 'Palace' in Kuala Lumpur and were heaving our backpacks back on (which seem to be getting heavier funnily enough), to venture up through Malaysia. A reasonably comfortable 4hr bus ride took us from the chaotic bus station 'Pudaraya' in KL to the peaceful town of Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands (centre of Malaysia). We had luckily prebooked accomodation as it was a suprisingly busy wee place. We rang Lonely Planets Our Pick place called 'Fathers Guesthouse' and booked ourselves into the more basic option - the Nissen huts'. These were old military huts built in 1956 for British, Australian and NewZealand soldiers. It was a very basic room with a shared bathroom (felt like we were camping), but it was clean with friendly ... read more