eat, drink, travel, repeat
So you can’t come to northern Vietnam without going to Ha Long bay, its the reason half of the tourists come to Hanoi in the first place. But our enthusiasm for seeing the UNESCO world heritage listed bay was deflated a bit by the tour-group nature of the options available – it seemed there were […]
A Chinese woman stands amidst a throng of tourists frozen in ridiculous poses in waist deep water, and quietly vomits into the turquoise blue as cameras click all around her. Nobody seems to notice. Welcome to Maya Bay, the location of the Leonardo Di Caprio blockbuster ‘The Beach‘. The plot of the movie is as […]
Asha’s 26th birthday was celebrated in style, on a beach on the far side of Phi Phi Island in the Andaman sea. When you find a place like this, its hard to leave, and we kept extending our time on the island, eventually leaving after 6 days. When the bungalows were fully booked the staff […]
If you are an Australian who gets flustered by Aussies behaving badly overseas and doesn’t have a sense of humour, stay clear of Patong. Allow me to take you there: massive nightclubs with hundreds of bars spewing dance floor tunes out into the busy streets, girls dancing on poles, awful tattoos adorning leathery skin, sun […]