Jamie and Yasmin

Hello! Since I last wrote Yasmin and I made a relatively comfortable 9 hour bus journey from Kuala Besut to Kulala Lumpur, arriving here at 6am yesterday morning somewhat bleary eyed! After finding our hotel, waking up the man on reception and dumping our bags we made our first foray into the city! We made it to the iconic Petronus towers for sunrise and took some great pictures of the worlds largest twin towers. After half an hour or so taking in the sheer scale of the buildings we made our way to the radio tower (the 4th highest telecommunications tower in the world!). We had been advised by a freind we'd met in Laos to go up this tower rather than the Petronus towers themselves to get a view of the city and also be ... read more

Sorry it's been so long since i last wrote but the internet is hard to come by when you're staying in paradise! So...much to get through...we left the beautiful Luang Probang last Saturday for a short internal flight to the Vientiene before catching an 8pm flight on to Kuala Lumpur. Both flights were short and absolutely fine, the problems started once we arrived at Kuala Lumpur and none of our 4 cards were working...after some frustrating phone calls, thousands of security questions, one Big Mac and a few hours we were finally with some money and could settle in for a night at the airport! To my suprise there were actually lots of people spending the night in the airport! Once comfortable we were able to get a few hours sleep amongst our bags on the ... read more

Hello, today was possibly one of the best days of our travels so far. We had a lie in to recover on some sleep we've missed over the last few days before meeting Joe and Rhian (guys we met again yesterday!) at 11 for a ham and egg roll with a coffee for breakfast! We then took a tuc tuc to some waterfalls about half an hour away. Once dropped off we had to get a long boat down the Mekong for about 5 minutes before a short walk to the waterfalls. On the way we saw 4 elephants being fed their lunch, so cool! Then we arrived at the waterfalls which were just incredible, like something straight out of a movie! Yasmins putting some pics up on facebook as i write if you'd like to ... read more

On Thursday after writing my last blog we got our sleeper train up through Thailand to the Thai/Lao border. The journey was fine and we slept most of the way before arriving at the border at 10AM Friday morning. A short train journey across the friendship river and we were in Lao and filling out forms for our visas into the country. While in the queue a British couple, our age, in front of us hadn't enough money for their Visas so were essentially stuck at the station, we stepped in and lent them the 10 Dollars needed and shared a taxi into town where they paid us back. We arranged to meet them for a drink later in the evening. After checking into our hotel which was really nice but a little out of the ... read more

As we leave Vietnam in the morning below is an evaluation of the places we've visited! Ho Chi Minh - Great place to start and a nice welcome to Vietnam. The tunnels are well worth a trip as are the various museums and markets around the city. Avoid the Cyclos!!! They rip you off! Nha Trang - I wouldn't go back. Kind of like a greek party island...fun but little cultural things to do, boat trip was good fun though! Hoi An - Great place! Would have liked longer there to look around the shops and buy more tailor made clothes, 3 days would've been perfect so as to fit in a day at the beaches which we were told were idylic by friends. Hue - Good to go to for a day and definately good ... read more