Ever since my first solo trip to Sydney during my years at university, the city has always been a kind of refuge for me. Sydney was the...

Lying on a sunbed yesterday morning on the top deck of the Calypso 10 as she cruised towards the Opal Reef on the outer edge of the Great...

Five o’clock in the morning and my alarm sounds. After a week and a half on the road with numerous nights of disrupted sleep, my body...

“Om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum” was the musical chant I heard repeated over and over in the background as I peered in wonder into...

I left Cambodia this morning, after a ten day visit that started in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, and ended in Siem Reap, with a...

I was lying in a hammock in my Laos paradise, the gorgeous village of Muang Ngoi, when I decided that Vietnam would be my next stop in SE...

I met Tina earlier this week as I was walking down the street in Hoi An, an ancient town in central Vietnam. I had just come back from a...

Before I left for Laos, I received a lot of travel advice from friends and fellow travellers who had already visited the country. Besides...

It’s nice once in a while to have some familiarity in the midst of all the transience of travel. It’s nice to walk up to a fruit shake...

I arrived in Laos a week ago not knowing what to expect. I’d been given a list of names of places to see by people who had been here...