Perhentian Islands, Malaysia White sand beaches, crystal clear azure water and very low-key development, it sure sounds like paradise, right? The Perhentians are two small islands off the north-eastern coast of Peninsula Malaysia; they had been on our radar since our last trip to Malaysia:...
It was time to catch the train again! We had three days before our flight back to Bangkok; having opted to fly out of Mandalay, we now had to get there. Our arrival into Naungshwe (for Lake Inle) had been by bus over the mountains,...
More than most other forms of transport, the train immerses the traveller into the country it crosses. A slow train can be a window into the lives of the people and an expression of how the country works. The Myanmar rail network is all this,...
I’d been off the rails for too long! Considering that the first three and a half months were travelled exclusively by train, we hadn’t been on one for seven weeks while traversing southern Vietnam and Cambodia. I was itching to be rocked along again. The...
Two things drew us to Battambang, a wildlife spectacle and an opportunity to ride a train {currently almost the only opportunity really, more on that later} in Cambodia. A six hour bus journey, booked through our accommodation in Phnom Penh, transported us through the Cambodian...
Two months of travel in China drew to a close, it was time to move on, with a few days left on our visas we departed Yangshuo on the bus to Guilin, a journey we had made a few times since basing ourselves in the...
