Luke and Alice’s travel blog. From Southeast Asia, to Japan, Australia and lastly NZ.
Our stay here was very short, more of a stopover rather than a proper tourist visit. The capital itself is fairly large, therefore we only explored a small part in our 2night stay here. Luke bravely got his haircut here and we visited a big archway which is meant to resemble the l’arc de Triumphe.... Continue Reading →
Enduring notoriously dangerous roads for 5hours in an old rickety minivan was not fun. What made it even less enjoyable was that Luke, Mark and I were split up for the duration of the journey, due to our pickup being last. I was made to sit at the very front between the driver and a... Continue Reading →
We stayed at a hostel called Sunrise for 4nights, in an 8 bed mixed dorm. Our friends were scattered around Luang Prabang but the town is small and easy to get around on foot or by tuktuk. This hostel was near the river and had a very chilled out vibe. It also had two puppies... Continue Reading →
Our journey towards Laos began by getting a very early bus from Pai to Chiang Mai. There we got on another minibus which took us through Chiang Rai and finally stopped for the night in the border town of Huay Xai. The journey had been long and bumpy, but thankfully we had booked through a... Continue Reading →
We left Chiang Mai via minibus and endured around 3 and a half hours of endless twists and turns. It is an understatement to say the roads here are winding. Hairpin bends haunt every other corner and the drivers are almost certainly not driving slowly enough to accommodate these sharp corners. The scenery along the... Continue Reading →
Anyone who really knows me will know I am passionate about wildlife and the environment. Animal and environmental conservation are crucial topics that the general public are now hopefully more aware of, thanks to brilliant BBC documentary series presented by none other than the king of the nature himself, Sir David Attenborough. It is due... Continue Reading →
12hours on a bus sounds bloody awful doesn’t it? Actually it wasn’t as bad as we thought! We got a night bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and arrived around 6am. Luke and I had been quite lucky with our seats and were able to recline back whilst also resting our legs up. Arriving at... Continue Reading →
From Bangkok, the journey to Koh Chang takes about seven and a half hours in total. Let’s start by stating where Koh Chang is. Koh Chang is a Thai island just off the coast from Trat, and resides close to the border of Cambodia also. Starting in Bangkok, we travelled in a south easterly direction... Continue Reading →
End of week one and a whole lot of new experiences have been had whilst in Bangkok. The first thing I will say about Bangkok is that it is truly ENORMOUS! Luke and I would plan to walk somewhere which appeared to be relatively nearby on google maps, and would then find it was actually... Continue Reading →
We started from Belfast at around 3.30pm and headed to Dublin Airport via bus. Being hugged and waved off by Mum and Dad was hard, because I know we will miss them, but I tried mostly to focus on our onward travels over the next 24hours. I, surprise surprise, slept most of the bus journey.... Continue Reading →
Gone Travelling 