Singapore 31/10/09 - 2/11/09 Oops Singapore is actually a country on its own. This, us educated, only found out through the lonely planet and conversation with someone in Koh Tao. Getting pretty tired of lonely planet bashers as well, look it’s a good book and we all use it. Bang, big difference in prices here. All we wanted was a sandwich but we ended up getting a spread of cheeses and Spanish meats and some flamboyant coffees. The metro systems are very impressive. We had free accommodation for the next two nights thanks to Gareth O’Brien whose a family friend of [View Full Entry]

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Kuala Lumpar Malaysia 29/10/09 - 31/10/09 We arrived in Kuala Lumpar about midday and found our accommodation in the middle of China town. Bustling street outside but hotel was good value. Obviously we spent a lot of time walking the market and we bought a few tops. We ate some street food washed down with a beer. We moved onto a reggae bar recommended and soaked up the atmosphere, literally. Next morning we made our way to the Petronas towers and got our free tickets. Our slot was for 4.30. We got breakfast in O’Briens Irish sandwhich bar. Kulau Lumpar is [View Full Entry]

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Perenthian Island Malaysia 22/10/09 - 28/10/09 Having left Koh Tao all refreshed we were going to find it hard to get back into living out of a bag, but it wouldn’t be too long before we’d be lapping it up again on the Perenthian islands off Malaysia. Just two nights to get there. We left Koh Tao after a good feed of pizza and boarded an overnight boat that night. Sitting up on the stern we met a few drunk Europeans, they had the right idea cos twas a tough journey. 50 people sleeping side by side on hard deck, pretty [View Full Entry]

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Koh Tao 11/10/09 - 22/10/09 We landed in Koh Tao on Sunday the 11th and there’s a big blank spot in our diaries from here until we hit KL, island life has set in, finally we can sit around and spend a day doing nothing but walking around a bit, eating and sunbathing. Stayed at Bans diving school for the ten days. We met Ouray once he’d come back from diving, a happy reunion! We started our Open water course on the Wednesday I think and Ouray assisted. It took four days. Went well, we both enjoyed it and got [View Full Entry]

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Chiang Mai Thailand 07/10/09 - 11/10/09 Most ridiculous border crossing ever! Got a speed boat from luang Prabang to the Laos boarder for $55, the most gruelling journey yet! It was a boat about 10m long, 1m wide and ½m in depth and there were 9 people in it, with life jackets and helmets for7hrs in the scorching heat, craziness… Anyways we made it got across the boarder and got a minibus then to Chiang Mai. On Thursday we booked into Tk hotel where we got an air con room for 7euro, we rented bikes and cycled round the city, saw [View Full Entry]

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Laos 29/09/09-07/10/09 We flew from Siem Reap to Vientiane on Tuesday. Did nothing in Vientiane except treat ourselves to a steak dinner. There was a festival of some sort on - celebrating the end of the rainy season or something but just a load of stalls really. Got a bus to Vang Vieng on Wednesday, Barry had recommended accommodation owned by an irish guy to stay at but there was no room there, so stayed in a hut by the river instead - grand spot with a mattress on the floor, mossie net, toilet and shower, but best of all had [View Full Entry]

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Cambodia 25/09/09 - 29/09/09 Arrived into Cambodia via the slow boat from Vietnam, long, slow journey but killian enjoyed it, took loads of pictures and read some! Grand transfer then from wherever we were to phnom phen in a minibus. Another nights accommodation was included in the Mekong tour so we stayed in sinh tourist hotel, our plushist accommodation yet, class but a bit out of the way and trouble finding food that night so moved next day. Sat morn we got up and got a tuk tuk out to toul sleung or S21 prison and the killing fields, quite a [View Full Entry]

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Hoian is golden if your chasing cheap ass suits and clothes, lets hope the seam dont split when I bend over in the next interview. Anyway its for sweet FA and top quality aswell. Met some guys from Hanoi and went on the beer to a beach party. Spent two nights in Hoian and back on the Karaoke bus again for another gruelling night. Nha Trang was the next stop and the beach here was awsome. Warmest water ive ever been in and had good craic on the water sports. Day 2 we went visiting some islands?? Since come to conclusion [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Nam and first stop was Hanoi, home of the Viet Mien. A Crazy place where it takes two days to cross the street. Honda done very well selling mopeds here. Stayed in Backpackers hostel, australian theme hostel and pretty cool. Next day we looked at the bible (lonely Planet)and all that seemed of interest was the ethanology museum. Basically a museum teachhing us all about the the different ethnic groups in Vietnam. Ok..... There was a BBQ organised for the top of the hostel but we left that and met some guys and sat down on baby chairs on [View Full Entry]

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Yangshou Stopped over in guilin for a night on our way here, not much to report from there except a good breakfast in the irish bar across from our hostel! Yangshou on the other hand was stunning. Started off on a dodgy note though, myself and killian both pride ourselves in our map reading, direction figuring and general spacial awareness ability. For some reason in Yangshou, however, this went completely out the window and we spent up to 2 hours looking for a retaurant before realising we weren't on the street we thought we were at all, very traumatising for us [View Full Entry]

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