We spent a couple of weeks in Malaysia. We first went to Penang Island and the hostel we stayed in had probably the most helpful guy we've met so far!! Did kind of look like the spitting image of Mr Miagi from karate kid, but he told us everywhere to go and the cheapest places to eat. From Penang we traveled to the Cameron Highlands in the central part of the Malaysian Peninsula. There we did a day trek to see the areas highest points, the tea plantations and th...

So the start of out trip into Laos was extremely eventful!! We had to cross the boarder at Huouy Xai. We stayed one night here before we could catch the slow boat down to Luang Prabang. Now the slow boat was very interesting! We got on a big long boat and waited until 11am when it was set to set sail! Now this was an education in its self. How many people can you cram on a boat made for 70 people? The answer is about 100! We were amazed at the ingenious ways in ...

Well hello everybody So we were supposed to go to Laos next but it wasn't possible to do this so instead we went into Thailand to go North and then into North Laos. Our bus trip to Bangkok was eventful! It was tiny to start with, had no boot for the bags and the seats we tiny so no leg room and air con did not exist!! So all the bags were in the back window; in the aisle and next to the driver. We had to climb over the bags to get out whi...

We were not here as long as we would have hoped. We went to Phonm Pehn and went to the Killing Fields and Tuol Seng School (S4 Prison) This was horrific. It was a real shock to the system that we were not even really aware of the horror that went on here even though it was only happening 30years ago. It only finished in 1978. It was equal to Hitler really. It was a really hard day as it is so intense. The school was turned into a torture camp and all sorts of bru...

So we started in Hanoi which none of us liked. Very busy - so many motorbikes it was unreal! (We are now traveling with two others Mark and Donna who we met in China and are doing the same next bit so we hooked up together!) We went to Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island which were lovely. We spent time on a boat and then slept in a little bungalow on the beach (where I woke up on my birthday!). We were supposed to sleep in a tent but there was a Typhoon on it's way so ...