We flew to the northern most tip of Sulawesi, to a town called Manado and from there got a boat to Bunaken. We spent 8 blissful days there. I did my open water there and we pretty much dived a couple of times every day. The dives there are incredible, really beautiful and good condition coral, and teems of fish. We also saw small sharks and a few turtles, one was enormous and the locals had named it Rambo. We stayed in a great little place with beach huts overlo...

8th April: So after our amazing time visiting Angkor Wat we left Siem Reap via the plushest mini airport you have ever seen to Vientaine the capital of Laos. We didn't spend much time there, just a night and left the next day to Vang Vieng. I found it a bit of an odd place, quite small and not particuarly developed in some ways but a real backpackers mecca with loads of young european travellers and full of cafes selling western fayre and playing re-runs of F...

8th April: So after our amazing time visiting Angkor Wat we left Siem Reap via the plushest mini airport you have ever seen to Vientaine the capital of Laos. We didn't spend much time there, just a night and left the next day to Vang Vieng. I found it a bit of an odd place, quite small and not particuarly developed in some ways but a real backpackers mecca with loads of young european travellers and full of cafes selling western fayre and playing re-runs of Fri...

The area we were staying in was full of western style cafes, bars and restaurants and we had luxuries such as fresh coffee and proper French bread - heaven!Basically we spent the next two days visiting Angkor Wat and the nearby temples. Angkor Wat was amazing but by no means my favorite. Unfortunately due to corrosion you couldn't climb or explore it properly, understandably of course but in comparison to the others made it not quite as good. We saw temples that ...

29th March: This was the start of our first day at Inle Lake. After our exerting hike we decided to take it easy and hired bikes for the day to explore the lake, and particuarly a water village. We had a lovely cycle through the local countryside passing villages and only the odd ox and cart along the way. we arrived at the water village and had to walk along a beautiful long teak bridge to get to the village passing rice and tomato fields along the way watchi...