Hello! Just a quick blog entry! It's been ages since since my last one - way back when in Thailand. Fortunately Rhi has been a bit better with her blogs and photos, although we've both been a bit slack since arriving in Malaysia. Too much to see and do (what a shame)! After a coll couple of days in Ayutthaya, we got the night train to Chiang Mai, a very cool city, with plenty to see and do, both within the city and in the area surrounding it. I've put some ...

First entry from Thailand! I've been in Thailand for 9 days but the time's gone really quickly - it's such a chilled out place, you can lose whole days quite easily. Rhi arrived a week ago, and we spent 3 days in Bangkok. We failed to do all the touristy stuff, like the Grand Palace, the Emerald Buddha and the Recling Buddha etc, but we did have a good explore of the city, and saw quite a lot on our walks. I think the weather was fairly mild, so walking was f...

Phwor, What a couple of weeks I've had since my last entry! Although I've uploaded some photos since then, I really haven't had a chance to keep a blog or even write journal entries. After some confusing shenanigans at the border I finally arrived at Hanoi... at 5:00 am in the morning! I dropped my bag at a hotel and went for a walk, and I think I got a completely different first impression of Hanoi to most people! Of course by 9 in the morning the streets were ...

Vietnam! I arrived at the Chinese border town of Hekou this morning, via a particularly painful and bumpy sleeper bus . The Vietnamese town of Lao Cai is just a few hundred metres away, and aside from having to reveal my suspicious looking books (the Portrait of Dorian Grey and the Lonely Planet phrase book of Mandarin), the border crossing was easy. Unfortunatley I wasn't prepared for the 20 moped men that decsended on me once I passed through Vietnamese immigr...

It's been a while since my most recent blog entry, but I've been on the road (and the rails) a little more than I was previously. Since my Yangshuo entry I've travelled by train to Kunming (capital of Yunnan province), by bus to Dali, and by bus to Zhongdian, where I am now. The train to Kunming was 19 hours long, but the journey went fairly quickly, in part due to the stunning scenery as you enter Yunnan province (mountains and lakes everywhere), but also due t...