I arrived in Sydney earlier this afternoon and concluded my two week tour of the east coast of Australia! I've had a brilliant time, met lots of interesting people and learned a lot about Australia, I've also done my fair share of partying of course. I'm now staying at the Wake Up hostel on Pitt Street for 5 nights which takes me up to Wednesday 25th April, also known as Anzac Day for aussies. It's their national memorial day for veterans and it's held on 25th April every year as that's the first day that Aussies/Kiwis served for their country in it's own right, as opposed to serving in the British army. Apparently it's a big deal and there's usually a lot of drinking and gambling as well as the standard memorial services, so I plan ... read more

My first two days in Singapore. (Written on Tuesday 3rd April, published on Wednesday 4th April). I arrived in Singapore at around 7:30am yesterday morning and arrived at the Little Red Dot hostel shortly after. The airport here is lovely and the taxi driver was super nice and knew exactly where I was going, which is lucky as I was completely fried after the plane journey. I slept the whole way and I never sleep when I'm flying normally so I must've been exhausted! No surprise I suppose, I was awake until 5am the morning before, partying on Unawatuna beach with my Sri Lankan buddies! There was a huge electrical storm underway when I landed, which looked amazing from the sky but a little scary, forks of lightning aren't what you need to see when you're ... read more

Goodbye MEF! Today is my last day at Millennium Elephant Foundation, I've had an amazing time here and I'm going to miss the ellies so much! Earlier today I had a ride and a 'shower' with Seetha, which was lovely. Now I'm packing up my things ready for another weekend at the beach before I get dropped off at the airport on Sunday evening. Next stop, Singapore!... read more

Hikkaduwa beach weekend! Hi everyone! This weekend Amie,Tamsin, Jonathan and I travelled down to Hikkaduwa beach, which is down in the southern province of Sri Lanka about 10km from Galle. We decided that after our extremely active and somewhat torturous hiking weekend that we deserved a chilled out trip this time around! We left at 11am on Friday morning and headed to Colombo on a public AC bus. They have 3 different standards of public buses here; your standard public buses, then slightly posher ones and then your top of the range Sri Lankan AC buses. To be completely honest, they're all pretty horrendous! Anyway, it took about 3 hours to get from Kegalle to Colombo, and from there we switched onto another bus to Galle which stops in Hikkaduwa on the way, which takes another ... read more