These posts might cover anything from packing tips and transport lowdowns to useful travel gadgets and gear we’re using.
Jan
24
Cruising the Mekong River from Thailand to Laos is one of life’s great adventures and an essential experience if you’re travelling South East Asia. You can read about our trip here. The question is how to do it – slow boat or fast boat? If you’re on a tight budget then your two options are …
Jan
16
From a rockabilly band playing at a fish and chips joint to an all-girl rock group performing nightly at an ice bar, Bangkok’s live music venues can most accurately be described as ‘quirky’. Bangkok’s music scene may not be the best in the world – you’re not going to fly to the Thai capital to …
Dec
17
Cambodia’s Angkor temples are spellbinding. This sprawling collection of archaeological wonders, stretching some 400 square kilometres and including the Angkor Archaeological Park at Siem Reap, home to Angkor Wat, consists of some of the world’s most captivating and atmospheric ruins. Some stand majestically, like Angkor Wat and Bayon, just begging to be explored, others are buried …
Dec
16
Enchanting Angkor Wat and the other Angkor temple complexes of the Khmer Empire are the reason most travellers visit Siem Reap. Although the fact the Cambodian city came in at #7 on Travel and Leisure magazine’s 2011 World’s Best Cities list, ahead of Sydney, Barcelona and Paris, suggests visitors are enjoying more than the archaeological …
Aug
25
Perhaps for the same nostalgic reasons that Mumbai’s locals prefer to call their city Bombay, Ho Chi Minh City, as it was renamed in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, is, we quickly discovered, still fondly referred to as Saigon by the locals. We don’t care what it’s called – we loved it. Although I’m not …
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