After a long and arduous journey to Phuket, we arrived late afternoon in Phuket town and immediately caught a taxi to Karon beach, about 30 minutes away. We grabbed some food once we had checked into our guesthouse, then went and sat on the beach to watch the sun go down. The next day we were up reasonably early and decided to spend all day chilling on Karon beach. The beach was massive, and pretty busy, but by about mid-afternoon many of the crowds had gone w...

Cameron HighlandsWe arrived in the Cameron Highlands at around mid-day on Friday after a 4 hour coach journey. Once we had checked in to our room (at Fathers Guesthouse) we went for a walk around the town, stopping off for some very tasty Indian food whilst there! We headed back afterwards and chilled out in the cosy lounge area at our guesthouse for the evening. We watched 'Blades of Glory' too which was very funny.The next day we went on a half day countrysi...

We arrived in Kuala Lumpar mid afternoon and headed to our hostel (Equator Hostel) and once we had checked in, went for a mini walk around the area. From first impressions KL was a very hectic, busy, built up city where people sped around on mopeds as if their lives depended on it. We walked through a massive mall (and we mean 10 floors massive!) to the nearby streets which were very bustley with the smell of fresh street food being cooked, along with colourful...

So we left Sydney the evening of Friday 4th December, after a teary goodbye with Lee's family, ready to embark on the next part of our adventure. We saw Lyn, Zoe and Ben off on their flight as it left an hour before ours, then headed to our gate to wait. When everyone got called to board, we hung back until the queue had died down before going up ourselves. The lady checking our tickets told us our seats had already been filled and so upgraded us to business c...

After an 11 hour bus journey we arrived at Sydney airport at around 7.30am sleepy eyed but ready to greet Lee's family who were flying over to see us for 2 weeks! Their plane was due at 8am so we arrived at a very good time! Lee was was excited yet nervous about seeing his family after 5 and a half months, it was so good to finally see them coming through the departure lounge and to be able to give them all a hug. We left the airport and set off to the hotel we ...