Our 3-week holiday from work was approaching, and we’d originally planned to stay in Malaysia, perhaps to visit Borneo. In the end, however, we headed to Thailand. This decision was largely based on the desire to scuba dive, and finding a good first place for Miki to experience it. So it was that we landed …
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Koh Chang and Cat Ba – Tet Holiday Island Adventures
Not long after my arrival in Hanoi , Vietnam was celebrating Tet holiday (Lunar New Year). Everything was closing and many people were leaving town for a week. This resulted in two mini adventures I had not expected. The first, was spending just under a week in Thailand on Koh Chang island. A blissful retreat, …
Gili Trawangan, Lombok
Realising we didn’t have enough time for our planned trip across Flores to Kelimutu volcano, Laura and I headed for the boat back towards Lombok, aiming for Gili Trawangan, the following morning. This was a much less eventful journey than our route to Flores as we opted to buy a through ticket to Lombok, ruling …
West Coast – Krabi and Phuket
So the majority of my first week in Thailand has been a wild week by the water. Firstly i headed to Krabi to catch up with Sue (the girl I met in the Philippines) and attend her birthday bash, and then I went a little further North to Phuket to complete my PADI Advanced Diving …
Panglao Island, Bohol
I had a good feeling about Bohol from the moment I arrived, and things got off to a great start as I managed to get 11hrs much needed sleep during my first night. The next morning an American girl arrived in the hostel and I headed with her down to the beach. Just as I …