We caught the train from Guilin and were both more than prepared for our 30 hour train journey.We were lucky as it turned out we didnt have anyone ...

From Yangshuo we caught a bus ( I know I said Id avoid buses but it seems to be impossible to do!) to a place called Guilin. The plan was to get ou...

After the bus jouney we arrived at our destination and it couldnt have been a moment too soon。 As it was quite late we went with a tout from the ...

Our journey into China was very straightforward， we caught a “high speed” train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou，brilliant I thought a chinese e...

We were both looking forward to start ‘travelling’again when we got to Hong Kong and we certainly were not disappointed。 HongKong is an amazi...

With a week left to goin Thailand, bith Russell and myself were a bit fed up of catching long bus/train journys so decided to head to the beach. Af...

After leaving Mae Sot we were quite relieved to get somewhere quite touristy and safe! Chang Mai was a really nice city with lots of things to see ...

The next place we visited was Mae Sot, which is on the border with Burma. The minibus ride there was quite an experience as the driver li...

We had a suprisingly relaxing bus journey to Sukhothai as there was no thai music blaring or thai comedy sketches being shown on the tv. When ...

We spent an afternoon and a night  in a place called Ayuthaya, which is a couple of hours north of Bangkok. We went there to visit the histori...

Before you all start getting excited/scared, no I am not pregnant and no I have not stolen any Thai babies, but Amanda (Russells sister) gave birth...

After leaving the jungle we headed on the "jungle train" to the border with Thailand before catching another train, bus and two ferries to the isla...

After Kuala Lumpur, we decided to head into the rainforest of Teman Negara. We caught a couple of buses before getting on a boat to take us there. ...

I was not too sure what to expect of Kuala Lumpur, but it was alot busier than I had ever imagined.  The bus station was the most mental ...

Our first stop in Malaysia was a place called Melaka, about a 4 hour bus ride from Singapore. We found a guest house in the lonely planet that soun...

We flew into Singapore on 28th January from Cairns and the flight took about 7 hours as we had to pick passengers up in Darwin. Again we were quite...

On Friday, we got a boat out to the outer Great Barrier Reef, initially for me to snorkel and Russell to scuba dive. Once we got on the boat we wer...

On Friday, we got a boat out to the outer Great Barrier Reef, initially for me to snorkel and Russell to scuba dive. Once we got on the boat we wer...

As we caught the overnight bus, we arrived into Airlie beach very early in the morning (around 6am). We were greeted with a heavy rainstorm....not ...

As we caught the overnight bus, we arrived into Airlie beach very early in the morning (around 6am). We were greeted with a heavy rainstorm....not ...

We had heard quite alot about 1770/ Agnes Water from various people so decided to go and visit there, along with Terese and Lars. On Saturday, the ...

For our visit to Fraser Island we decided against the self drive option as we had heard alot of bad stories about losing all your deposit and peopl...

The hostel we decided to stay in Noosa was not in the centre of Noosa but near Sunshine Beach and one of the nicest I have stayed in the whole time...

After nearly missing our bus from Byron as it was a different bus to what we have been travelling on, we eventually made it to Brisbane. We de...

As we werent very organised and everyone in Australia seemed to be staying at Byron Bay we could not get any backpacker accomodation anywhere,...

We caught the bus to Port Macquarie on Sunday, arriving in time to check into our room. We were staying in a dorm but on a campsite. It was really ...

As I am so far behind in my blog, Im going to just put a few things down about Sydney over Christmas and New Year and then go back later and fill i...

After a night in Sydney we caught the train and headed down the coast to Nowra, where my cousin Bianca lives. The train ride itself was really scen...

After a night in Sydney we caught the train and headed down the coast to Nowra, where my cousin Bianca lives. The train ride itself was really scen...

After leaving Canberra we headed into Sydney to spend a night there before heading into the Blue Mountains. The train to the Blue Mountains was a n...

The bus journey to Canberra was fine, took about 8 hours and I got to see my first kind of big spider in Australia! The hostel we decided to stay i...

We arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon and we were planning to stay with my cousin's best friend, Claire, who had recently moved over there...

Our final few days were spent in Christchurch, spending one night in a campsite and the rest in a hostel. It took ages to clean out "lucy" and it w...

We spent most of the morning on the road driving to Mount Cook but it was definately worth it. As we got closer the views were spectacular. Once we...

We spent the night in a campsite in Invercargill nice campsite but full of strange people! Everyone we spoke to there wasnt really on the same...

After eventually dragging ourselves out of bed, we began the drive to Milford Sound. Thankfully it was easy to navigate and I did not have to drive...

The following day we drove to Queenstown, stopping off at Puzzle World on the way. It had a 3D maze, which we decided to do. It was supposed to tak...

Firstly we drove to Franz Joseph Glacier as we were undecided which Glacier to walk on, but in the end we decided to go on Fox Glacier as it was sl...

On Monday, we had a long drive ahead of us to get to Arthurs Pass but as we dont have much time it had to be done. Firstly we drove from Renwick to...

I woke up on my birthday and guess what.......the sun was shining and it was hot! Never have I had a birthday like that back home. I was brought a ...

On Saturday (the day before my birthday) we spent time in the morning organising what we were going to do on my birthday and where we were going to...

On Thursday we made our way to Wellington a bit more directly, found ourselves somewhere to stay and headed into the centre. We went on the "Cable ...

After leaving Taupo we made our way to Tongariro National Park hoping to do the Crossing, which is a one day walk. We found a c...

Well even writing this I still cant believe we have done a skydive from 12,000 ft, about 2 miles up! It was absolutely amazing. i was quite nervous...

On Saturday we went to Kuirau park which was just next to our campsite. It was a park with loads of natural volcanic activity, it had a crater lake...

Most of Thursday was spent driving from to Waitomo Caves but it was beautiful weather and it was definately the most scenic drive we have done so f...

Once boarding the bus for our trip we realised that the average age of the people on the bus was 70, not really whar we were expecting. The morning...

What an eventful first day with our campervan, we were picked up over an hour and half late and our Jucy Crib (google it on the internet, its so fu...

As you may have noticed the blog has not been updated since arriving in New Zealand as internet cafes are hard to come by and not that cheap b...

After saying our goodbyes to Argentina we made our way to Chile. The flight was fine and we got to our hotel no problems. It took awhile, however, ...

The bus trip to Buenos Aires was very uneventful and thankfully the bus arrived on time and not any earlier. The only problem with the bus was that...

As you can now tell by location I managed to take the bus and survived the 20 hour bus journey! The bus journey itself was actually very enjoy...

On Monday we left the Brazilian side to make our way to the Argentinian siade of Iguazu falls. While we were waiting at the bus stop we met up with...

On Friday we left for our first long bus journey.....It was without a doubt the worst bus we have travelled, typical as it was our longest bus jour...

Well it is Russells birthday today and unfortunately we have spent all of the day doing tag team back and forth to the toilet....yes its the f...

On Sunday morning we left Rio and headed off to a costal town called Paraty a 4 hour bus journey from Rio. Again we made it on a local bus to the m...

Since I last wrote on here we have been busy with our sightseeing... The football was amazing words cannot describe how passionate people are abo...

Well we arrived in Rio safe and sound and even managed to gte ourselves on a bus (with air conditioning!) to drop us off at the bottom of our hotel...

It is now 9pm at night and thanks to one too many drinks last night my day has not been as productive as I had hoped! My bag is yet to be packed an...