It's hard to believe how much happened in the space of about four days. From the moment we left Auckland we were thrown straight into activities. Our first stop was the Coromandel Peninsula, where we stayed near hot water beach. We spent the afternoon walking out to Cathedral Cove with its iconic arch and white sand beaches. In the evening we went down to hot water beach to dig our own pool during low tide. It proved more difficult than expected as the water was ...

So this post is slightly late as it turns out people aren't lying when they say Internet access in New Zealand is bad. Sofia literally had more Internet in a tiny village in Laos. We arrived in Auckland on Saturday night and spent the next three nights there recovering from our jet lag and exploring the city. Despite being New Zealand's biggest city, it's made up of numerous small suburbs, each with a characteristic of their own. On our first day we visited Devo...

We were reunited on Sunday the 15th of February in Phnom Penh. It's safe to say we were both pretty excited at the airport. We spent our first night at Martha's sister's apartment, where Martha had already been staying for four days. But first thing Monday morning we got on a bus down south to Kampot. After trying a few of the places by the river, we found one with a bungalow available. These are the best places to stay in Kampot: quiet, idyllic spots right on th...

I've now been in Laos for a week and am convinced that it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The noise and chaos you usually associate with South East Asia are gone; here all is calm, a tourist can walk down the street without being pounced on to buy things even in the capital, Vientiane. We spent a day there, renting bikes and cycling around the city. We were vaguely following a route in my dad's guidebook which promised finishing the day by watchin...

My trip started off with a never ending journey - getting to Bangkok took about 20 hours all together and by the time we arrived we weren't even sure what day it was anymore. Our flight to Cambodia wasn't for another 24 hours so we spent Monday night in a hotel in the centre of Bangkok. On Tuesday morning we visited a monk my dad used to work with and then hired a long boat for an hour and a half. It was a great way to see a bit of the city, but probably the mo...