Koh Samui Thailand – Life Beyond Sunset Cocktails & Beach Towels

by Marc Valentine
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After spending a little over 6 weeks in Koh Samui, we think we got to know the ins & outs of tropical island life pretty well… well as intimately as possible within this time period anyway…     We ate, celebrated, relaxed and got ill like locals, and even learned a little about the ups […]

Dodging The Tubing Crowds In Vang Vieng & A Giant Rocket Festival

by Marc Valentine
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With a few well spent days in Luang Prabang behind us, we headed off towards Vang Vieng… The infamous party town in Laos is notorious with backpackers for it’s day long river tubing sessions accompanied by heavy drinking, swinging, partying, sliding, jumping (falling) into the river – the common injury, and even odd death. After one of […]

Vietnams 200km Underground Tunnel System – The Cu Chi Tunnels

by Marc Valentine
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By the time we reached our final destination in Vietnam, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) we were pretty pumped about moving on to the next country on our list for Southeast Asia… Cambodia. The dismal weather was unrelenting & it was really taking it’s toll on our experience in Vietnam… A stop at Nha Trang […]

Pssst Hoi Ann Is A Little Town In Vietnam… Oh Yeah & It’s Awesome

by Marc Valentine
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If you’ve read any of our previous posts on Backpacking in Vietnam… you’ll already know that we didn’t have a huge amount of luck in Nam… It’s not like we were robbed at gunpoint or anything… mostly our misfortune came down to a rough patch of weather. Hoi Ann turned out to be quiet the […]

Taking The Slow Route To Luang Prabang

by Marc Valentine
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After our epic motorcycle adventure around northern Thailand we were desperately looking forward to a few days R & R and slowing down to a snails pace for a few days… The best way to accomplish that? … a slow boat of course. One night while enjoying dinner in a restaurant in Mae Hong Son, […]

Luang Prabang – A Little Slice Of European Decadence In Laos

by Anna Lynch
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Charm is not a word I use loosely (or often) when describing Asia… But if I were to use it at all, I would do so in the hope of accurately portraying the quaint little UNESCO World Heritage Listed town of Luang Prabang in Laos. The picturesque horizon views & European influenced architecture, blend seamlessly […]

A Ha Long Bay Long Shot – Will Our Second Attempt At Cruising Vietnam’s UNESCO World Heritage Site Pay Off?

by Marc Valentine
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After our first doomed attempt to visit Ha Long Bay… we headed North to Sapa for a few days of trekking before returning to Hanoi…   On our way back to Hanoi, Anna & I decided we would push our luck one notch further, and have one final crack at out-maneuvering the crappy weather that […]

Sapa – The Trekking Capital Of Vietnam

by Marc Valentine
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Sapa is a remote town north of Hanoi that is very popular among trekking crowds for the stunning scenery and the interaction with the local minority villagers. The village of Sapa itself is not dissimilar to a town you would expect to find nestled high in the Swiss Alps in some respects… the high altitude, […]

Ancient Angkor Wat… It’s Old. It’s Big. But Is it Really Worth All The Hype?

by Marc Valentine
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Here’s the thing about Angkor Wat… it’s an incredible experience, but as anybody that’s ever had the fortune of visiting Angkor will tell you – it’s a mega popular tourist attraction…   That means there are lots of elbows & left jabs that need to be thrown if you want to get the best photo […]

The Bamboo Express – A Rough n Tumble Ride On Cambodia’s Bamboo Train

by Marc Valentine
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We never planned to see a massive chunk of Cambodia… and besides Phnom Penh & Siem Reap we only stopped at one other small town named Battambang… the main attraction in Battambang… the Bamboo Trains.   The Bamboo what? That’s right, there are trains in Cambodia that are made out of Bamboo… Not really trains […]

High Tea At The Metropole In Hanoi… Oh Why Not Darling?

by Marc Valentine
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Scouring the guidebooks and the internet for worthwhile things to do in Hanoi… with it drizzling outside, the girls came across an extremely exciting prospect which they assured us would suite both them… and us boys – High Tea! The Famous Metropole Hotel which happens to be a gorgeous french building… puts on a lavish […]

Phnom Penh Cambodia – A Buzzing & Vibrant City Rises Up From A Tragic Past

by Anna Lynch
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Phnom Penh – A Brief History Phnom Penh entered the history books after it became the Khmer capital in the mid 15th century. European interest in Cambodia waned until the French arrived in force in the late 19th century –  it was then in the 1860s that the capital of Cambodia relocated to Phnom Penh. France […]

Hanoi Vietnam – A Stark Contrast To Thailand’s Tropical Islands

by Marc Valentine
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Unsure if we would even make it to Vietnam on our tour of Southeast Asia… good friends happened to be in Asia the same time as us, so we decided… screw it! – lets join them on a whirlwind tour of Vietnam. Rendezvousing in Hanoi we planned to head south… ultimately crossing the border into […]

The Incase DSLR Pro Pack – My New Favourite Travel Backpack

by Marc Valentine
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Finally A Durable, Stylish, And Dependable Backpack To Ensure The Safe Transportation Of Your Valuable Digital Assets. [leadplayer_vid id=”516E80117AAFD”]   If you’re anything like me… and you often lug a ton of electronic gear around when you go travelling… … then the Incase DSLR Pro Pack camera/notebook bag was designed specifically with you in mind. […]

A Motorcycle Adventure On Northern Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Loop

by Marc Valentine
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[leadplayer_vid id=”516E7BD6B10BB”] Conquering The Mighty Windy Mae Hong Son Loop On Two Wheels What The Heck Is The ‘Mae Hong Son Loop’ Exactly? Well, in a snapshot… the Mae Hong Son Loop is a series of Roads through a remote Province of Northern Thailand… A route beginning in Chiang Mai and arching North to within […]

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