After the best part of three months following a backpackers trail around South East Asia we had spoken to over a hundred people about what their travel route was: where they had been and where they were going next. After a while we noticed a regular pattern emerging, with lots…

To finish off our month in Thailand we had two destinations left: Phuket and Bangkok (where we had a flight booked to take us to St Petersburg to start our adventure through Russia on the Trans Mongolian train). We only had a very short stay in Phuket and had…

With Gemma finally feeling better and us feeling happy from making some elephant friends in Chiang Mai, we were ready to board a flight back down towards Southern Thailand, with our first stop being Krabi. Gemma was excited to be able to get involved with more activities now she…

As we reached the end of our adventure through Laos, our attention turned to Thailand, working out where we’d like to go and how long we’d like to stay in each place. One highlight of Thailand, for a lot of travellers, is the full moon party which takes place…

Upon arriving in Vietnam towards the start of February, we had planned to equally split the next three months (before our flight to St Petersberg) between Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. But as we to spoke to various travellers and received advice, we kept getting the same message: we…