Day 153
In a couple of hours we will be boarding our flight home. All of a sudden the 154 days are nearly over!! We have had a blissful 2 weeks in Thailand, enjoying beach life on Koh Samui and Koh Ph-Ngan and city life in crazy Bangkok. Sure we will more to write once we [...]
Day 140
We started our travels in Malaysia on the west coast, visiting Melaka (just north of the border) and then Kuala Lumpur (or KL as everyone seems to prefer to call it). Melaka was a fascinating town, with a thriving historic Chinatown full of beautiful temples and many hangovers from the Dutch occupancy of this [...]
Day 129
It was a relief to finally land in Singapore after the arctic temperature we experienced in Melbourne. It was also a chance to wash the single jumper and pair of trousers we had each been wearing every day for the last 7 days! Even this wasnt enough to keep us warm as we had [...]
Day 114
Maybe we are hardened travellers by now, but after so many warnings about safety in Mexico City we have been really pleasantly suprised to find it a friendly, clean, and easy to navigate place. Best of all is the super efficient and cheap metro (underground) which surpasses London in every concievable way.
Have [...]
Day 11 0
Well, we are back now in Cancun having spent the better part of 2 weeks on the beach! With our fingers crossed for sun we first headed to Isla Mujeres (Island of Women), just off the coast of Cancun. The sun came out for long enough for us to [...]
Day 98
Since arriving in Mexico we have all been the most excitied about getting to the Yucatan and enjoying some of the Carribean beaches. With this in mind we have travelled fairly quickly from the beaches on the Pacific through the highlands and on to the Yucatan plain.
Our journey took us first to San [...]
Day 91
We have spent the last few days enjoying beach life, first in a small beach called Mazunte and then a slightly larger one, called Zipolite. In Manzute we had a great cabana on the beach, with a palapa roof and walls only about 1 metre high. The view of the ocean was amazing, and [...]
Day 88
Oaxaca is a beautiful city, although stifling hot at times. Having successfully met up with Helen at a hostel last night we have been exploring the city and, in particular, the amazingly colourful and vibrant markets. Having been so long in other parts of Central America it is a relief to the senses to [...]
Day 84
Today we crossed the border from Guatemala into Mexico by foot, without the aid of a nice bus company who do the paperwork for you. Its amazing how much more confident we both feel. Trying to embark on such a thing 2 months ago would probably have caused a heart attack!
Staying the night in [...]
Day 83
After leaving Lago de Atitlan we travelled on to Quetzaltenango, or ´Xela´as it is known locally, from where we would make our connection to Mexico. Our most memorable day in this city involved a visit to the local museum. The guidebook had noted that it contained some ´curiosities´and that it was an eclectic mismash [...]