Happy days in Hoi An

From Hanoi, Rich and I were heading south through Vietnam. The small city of Hoi An, a UNESCO world heritage site, was our next destination and our chosen method of transport was the sleeper train! We stocked up on food and water for our sixteen hour train ride and boarded in Hanoi at around seven o’clock in […]

Halong Bay

After a four hour drive east from Hanoi, we boarded our Vietnamese junk boat. Rich and I were embarking on a three day, two night sailing trip around Halong Bay, an area with over one thousand six hundred limestone islands jutting out of the sea, declared a world natural heritage site by UNESCO in nineteen […]

Good Morning Vietnam!

After the stifling heat of Cambodia the prospect of heading to the cooler climate of northern Vietnam was a good one. With short flights from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City and then on to Hanoi we arrived late at night. The roads were deserted, it was pitch black, drizzling with rain and we […]

A history lesson in Phnom Penh

I would be lying if I said that Rich and I were looking forward to the eight hour bus journey from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh. Our experience thus far of road users in Cambodia showed that it was going to be anything but a peaceful and relaxing journey. The fact it would take us eight […]

Crazy Cambodia

Our journey to Cambodia took us from Phuket to Bangkok and then on to Siem Reap. Flying with Air Asia again, our short flights with them were much better than our long haul one a couple of weeks earlier. Arriving into Siem Reap we were met at the airport by our driver for the free […]

Island hopping

In order to explore the beauty of more Thai islands, Rich and I joined a day tour to take in the sights of Phi Phi Don, Phi Phi Lay and Khai islands. As we boarded our speedboat we realised that we were on a very popular tour. There was just us and around fifty other […]

Our big day out

On our third day in Phuket Rich and I decided to tear ourselves away from the luscious beach and we had big plans. Our first stop was the Kokchang Elephant Trekking Centre. We spent a lot of time researching elephant trekking in Phuket and came across a lot of reviews which almost put us off doing […]

Beach Time!

From Koh Samui, Phuket was only an hours flight away and after the hard work we put in at Vikasa, we were looking forward to some beach time. Knowing people who have been to Thailand before, we had heard a lot of stories about the beaches in Thailand being gorgeous. Soft white sand, warm clear water […]

Yoga & Meditation on Koh Samui

Our journey from Melbourne to Koh Samui was a long one. We flew from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur with Air Asia, a seven and a half hour flight with the most budget airline we have ever come across. We had a couple of hours layover in Kuala Lumpur before flying on to Bangkok, unfortunately with Air Asia […]

Marvellous Melbourne

The great thing about going to watch the Formula One at Albert Park was that we got to experience the wonderful city of Melbourne too. It’s a city where you can literally have four seasons in one day with the varying amounts of sun, wind, rain and cloud. In addition to our four days at the […]