After a long and tedious journey from Thailand into Cambodia (it took 9 hours to travel 400km!) we finally made it to Siem Reap, the gateway to the fabulous Angkor Wat temples. Angkor means 'Holy City', and it is a huge archeological site with temples that date back to 802AD. We paid a man with a tuktuk to drive us around the site (as the temples were quite far apart) and he picked us up at 5am in time for the sunrise. It rose just behind the main temple, Angkor ...

Very excited but tired after a total 20 hour journey, we landed in Krabi which is in the southern part of Thailand. We were meeting up with Katy and Ed again (friends from uni who also came to stay with us in Bondi) and couldn't wait to get into the tropical climate after leaving cold and rainy Sydney behind! It soon became apparent that the language barrier was going to be a problem when we got to the hostel and asked if our friends Katy and Ed were there, but t...

For the final leg of the east coast we decided to get a campervan to travel the roughly 1000km over 2 weeks. After a bit of a drama getting the van, (we went with the cheapest company, therefore the office was in the most remote part of Brisbane!!) We went and got the food shopping in for the 2 weeks (our favourite thing to do!!). We also got 6 bottles of good Australian wine to start off with, well we have to make the most of it while we're over here! The 1st ni...

We were so excited for this part of the East Coast, as it's something that it seems like only the rich and famous do (cruise around the Whitsundays that is) but we were going to do it backpacker style, on a proper racing boat, with 20 other like-minded travellers! We spent 2 days and 2 nights sailing around the islands, stopping to snorkel around some amazing coral and sea life. We stopped at the famous Whitehaven beach, which has the whitest sand in the world an...

We arrived in Cairns as refreshed travellers, more eager than ever to begin hostel life and stretching every cent by living off jam sarnies and noodles! (not sure how long it's going to last though!) The 1st thing we did was get a massage at the night markets, not very traveller-like, we know, but for $15 how could we refuse?! We soon wish we had though, as what we thought was going to be a relaxing chinese massage turned into 40 minutes of torture! Oh well for ...