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deanandsarah - Dean & Sarah

Yay, after both wanting to travel the world for as long as we can remember we are finally off!

A year working, living with mom :-) and general penny pinching and we've managed to save up enough to get rid of our post Uni finances - now up to that magical figure zero! With graduate loans in hand we are planning to travel for the next 9/10 months across Asia.

Fingers crossed route will be London > Dubai > India > Sri Lanka > Vietnam > Cambodia > Laos > Thailand > Malaysia > Indonesia > Singapore > London

We will update the blog with pictures and stories for you all as often as possible, apologies in advance if that is'nt too often!

We will miss you all very much and will be thinking of you (and the lovely British weather) whilst we lay in the sun, drink in hand :-) he he... keep us updated with messages when you can...

All our love, Sar and Dean xxx

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By deanandsarah
July 20th 2008

Sensational Sabah

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah

High above the South China Sea with a hangover on Air Asia!

Hello everyone from the isle of Borneo, Before anyone gets confused Borneo is an island of which half is Malaysian owned and half is Indonesian owned (we will ignore Brunei for ease!). The Malaysian part is split into southern Sarahwak and northern Sabah i.e. where we are now, get it? Got it? Good! We arrived in Tawau pretty late at night and needed sleep after the night before in Hanoi!! Thanks Aled and Lia! The town seemed dead but we found a little place to stay in the book before planning to bus it to Sandakan the next day. In the [View Full Entry]

Another day another country, note our malay friends leading the way in true asian style!

Its breakfast Jim but not as we know it!

By deanandsarah
July 6th 2008

Heavenly Halong

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Halong Bay

Halong Caves 1

Hello Everyone, hope you are all well. This is just a mini (and already late) blog to keep you all updated and also it neatly ties up Vietnam so that the blogs dont get too hard to follow! I expect most of you will end up reading this at the same time as the previous blog as they are so close together so shouldn't be too much bother! And yes before you ask they ARE shocking sandal tan lines on my feet in the panoramic picture above (I hope your enjoying the new panormas on the blogs, makes it look almost [View Full Entry]

Russ would love the electrics - Try and work that out!

By deanandsarah
June 22nd 2008

Spectactular Sapa

Asia » Vietnam » Northeast » Sapa

Hoi An nightscene

EDIT: Stupid PC just deleted yesterdays walk pics, Ive just had to run out and take a few more. Not as good but you get the idea. And its also not going to let you guys have any video for now!!! Hi back at home, it's us in Vietnam again! Hope all is well back in the sunny UK? :) So to catch up... we left the twee times of Dalat early the next morning, leaving our huge lovely room and decided to bus it to Hoi An with a change at Nha Trang, an un-inviting journey of nearly 24 hours! [View Full Entry]

Health and Safety concerns en-route to Nha Trang (for Hoi An)

By deanandsarah
June 12th 2008

Vibrant Vietnam

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

Is this Vegas or Vietnam?!?

Hello World! Yes I know Vibrant, terrible, but you try thinking of a better word beginning with V!! It was the best we could think of... suggestions on the back of an e-postcard please! So yes another blog another country and this time its Vietnam! We've only got 2 real countries left after this (if you exclude Singapore and don't class Malaysian Borneo as a different country!) so we are trying to appreciate everyday to the max as it will all be over soon! Last time we blogged we was post Angkor. From Siem Reap we took a largely uneventful bus [View Full Entry]

Time for one last ethical sarnie for Sar before leaving the capital!

By deanandsarah
June 3rd 2008

Amazing Angkor!

Asia » Cambodia » North » Angkor

Beautiful Banteay Srei

Hi Everyone, Apoligies if this blog is written a bit weirdly but we have decided to write a bit each day while we are in Siem Reap as we have free internet at the hotel. Also we don't want to write about Angkor all in one go because I think we would forget a lot of stuff! (We also have to download the pictures to Deans gadget everyday because there are many!!!) So I think we last wrote about Battambang... we left early in the morning to get on a five hour bumpy bus journey to Siem Reap. The road was [View Full Entry]

By deanandsarah
May 29th 2008

Crazy Cambodia

Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh

Boeng Yeak Lom - Perfection?

Hello western world! How are you all, well we hope? This is the other backdated blog that brings us up to date! We left the last blog after crossing the border so we will carry on from there... Stung Treng was an odd but relativly charming little town. Even though we were only thirty miles into Cambodia, Loas already felt a long way away. No more sticky rice, shame :-( We did find a great place on the main street for our first Cambodian meal though. They spoke very little English, the freindly staff, along with a comical woman running the [View Full Entry]

Not bad for 3 quid! Tribal Hotel @ Ban Lung!

Huuuuuuge centipede we saw walking to the lake!

By deanandsarah
May 22nd 2008

King Khong

Asia » Laos » South » Khong Island

Mekong ferry terminal :)

Hi Everyone :-) Hope everything is good back at home? And no more nail bombs in Exeter?? How weird! Sorry we havn't blogged for a while - we are in Cambodia already but will have to backdate due to lack of internet action lately! (Also thats why you havn't had any emails guys, sorry). We will do the Cambodia blog soon as well now we are back in some kind of civilisation. Anyway... from Pakse in Central Laos we headed south to Champasak to get a taster for things to come at Angkor. Our journey there was a real experience - [View Full Entry]

Pakse answer to black cabs! (The one that tipped over)

By deanandsarah
May 8th 2008

Vive la Vientiane!

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

Millionaires! A hundred quid in BIG Lao notes!

Hello World! Hope everyone is OK back in the now apparently sunny UK. Glad to hear the weather is better now (short of our 35c though :)) and that things are ticking over OK. Congrats to Clare on her MA, we will have a drink for you later and when we return! Ceeeeeeelebration woo! This will be a monster blog so again get comfy, seek refreshments and settle in for a bumpy ride! Also this blog marks some shocking news.... WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH OUR TRAVELS! It has come around unbelivebly quickly! We had decided to come home on sept 1st [View Full Entry]

About three litres of coconut in there for 30p!

By deanandsarah
May 1st 2008

Lazy Laos

Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang

View from & of Lahu village outside Chiang Rai

Hi Everyone, Hope everything is going great back at home? Sorry we havn't blogged for a while (apart from the mini Burma blog). We left the last blog in Thailand so will carry on from there... From Chiang Mai we went onto Chiang Rai which is about a 3hour coach ride north so the scenery changed from flat to bumpy mountains. We decided to walk out to our guesthouse (Akha River Lodge) but ended up walking around for about an hour trying to find it in the dark! Things have changed slightly since Lonely Planet map was drawn and there is [View Full Entry]

Walking out of Akha village near Chiang Rai

By deanandsarah
April 25th 2008

Brief Burma!

Asia » Burma » Tachileik

The border :)

Hello Everyone from Burma/Myanmar! Haha yes thats right we are not in Thailand well not for the next hour or 2 anyway, were in Tachileik in far north eastern Myanmar! We are on our way from Northern Thailand to the Laos border at Chang Kong so we thought it would be amusing to go to Mae Sai and cross the border to Burma for an afternoon! Yes we are sad but it has been quite amusing and a visa for Myanmar only costs 10 dollars. We thought that it would be pretty much the same, as we are about 100 yds [View Full Entry]