Crossing a special sea between Bali and the Gili Islands

It was a day that started serene, went chaotic and became serene again. A chaos sandwich, if you will This … More

Thoughts on returning home after backpacking around Southeast Asia for 90 days

Or … why you can never really ‘do’ a country We’ve been back now for six weeks after our 90 … More

The islands between Malaysia and the Philippines must be some of the loveliest islands in the world. During the day … More

We arrived in Sepilok in Borneo, the world’s third largest island, famed for its wildlife. We saw orangutans at play … More

We’d landed in Singapore, our 6th country and 28th place on our 90 day travels around southeast Asia We immediately … More

After a one hour flight from Bagan, a 45 minute taxi and a 50 minute boat ride, we were in … More

Imagine over 2,000 ancient stone temples, the fruits of devotion that have lasted almost a millennium. Some grandiose, topped in … More

The lay of the land can be a great tell about a people just like a first view of Myanmar … More

We arrived via seaplane, landing in a sea filled with spectacular limestone cliffs rising out of the water. Hanoi to … More

We visited the ancient trading port of Hoi An and the old royal capital Hué, and then on to Vietnam’s … More