We arrived into Bangkok late evening, it was humid and so hot in comparison to HK. We fortunately got through customs pretty quickly sorted a prepaid cab from the desks outside. The city was different again in comparison to HK, Mombai and Delhi - cleaner then india no slums in sight but then not as modern as parts of HK, although they do have a sky train here which I found bizarre. Tuk tuks are in plenty as are the cabs here. I was quite dubious about the hotel w...

We arrived in Hong Kong mid afternoon and before leaving we were approached by a lady with a street map of HK telling us to head down to the front tonight as it was chinese new year celebrations and there would be a big firework display - how lucky we were turning up on the best celebrations in HK! Excellent! We headed through the airport to the metro stop to get to Kowloon and already the difference from being in India was obvious - Hong Kong being alot sleeke...

We were delayed on our journey from Goa to Mumbai by a couple of hours so didnt arrive until about 6pm. As the plane was touching down at Mumbai airport we had views over the city to the right and from what I registered was every piece of land in between built up areas was taken up by slums. They are huges areas of corrogated iron and wooden huts where thousands of people live. Families are crammed into these tiny man made building for shelter - they are everywhe...

This blog is short and sweet actually - we stayed in Palolem for just under 2 weeks - its such an amazing place for the traveller - cheap, gorgeous, hot and fun! We went to the silent disco on the Saturday night we were there - now that was most certainly an experience! We danced til dawn but instead of a nightclub with speakers you are in an open air area with headphones on that have 2 channels to switch between 2 DJ's - fantastic idea! This is a new event and i...

The trip to Palolem was not as bad as I expected. There were 6 of us in total - Gavin our most knowledgeable leader, Alan, Ian, Dave, Lucia and myself. I had the rucksack sorted - I hadnt left too much and the weight wasnt too bad - dont get me wrong it was heavy and I was most certainly suffering in the heat but I managed with not a whinge! First bus was pretty short from Baga to Calangute - 10 min max, the next was from Calangute to Panjim about half an hour or...