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The long way Laos… Part two, Luang Probang to Phou Khoun

// June 22nd, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Luang Probang

8:00 came around and I woke up still feeling battered and bruised, I crept out of the room to get some coffee but the others woke up too. I went outside to tinker with my sweet sweet ride, drink coffee and smoke when the “girls” emerged. Toby had felt proper rough the night before and could have probably done with another week in bed and Georgie was seriously hating the sight of the bikes.

So, all rearing to go we started packing up and strapping our shit onto the bikes, Georgie was seriously considering getting the bus home because the bikes aren’t really made for two people and it was pretty fucking uncomfortable on the back. We got some breakfast and I squeezed a plan out of them – (more…)

The long way Laos… Part 1, Vang vieng to Luang Probang.

// June 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Vang Vieng

Despite having far too many days tubing behind us and everyone feeling like they’ve had a good beating we had grand plans… Grand plans of motorcycle adventures. When Georgie and I had rented a moped on our first day we couldn’t help but notice they also had a pair of rather serious looking dirt bikes and that set us thinking – Toby will be here, he loves dirt bikes, I want to learn how to ride one and we should go to Luang probang… See the logic?

I was first up at about 8 am and despite the pain (more…)

Georgie’s La La Land: Episode 18 Yogjakarta & Borobudur

// May 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Travel Videos

Follow us as we cross the Indonesian island of Java – from Yogjakarta to the worlds largest Buddhist stupa- Borobudur…

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Bus,Bus,Bus Borobudur – Bus,Bus,Bus Bromo.

// May 6th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Yogjakarta

It’s 7:00 Wednesday morning and it’s bloody cold. We are finally at Mount Bromo in eastern Java, it took us a whole day to make the trip we left at 9 am and arrived here at 9 pm last night…

Monday was a hell of a day, we got up at a descent time and the plan was to find our own way to Borobudor, the largest Buddhist temple in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site sitting 45kms outside of Yogjakarta.

What we didn’t want to do was just book a minibus to take us there at an inflated price so after a spot of breakfast at our cosy little home-stay La Javanese we went in search of a bus stop. On the way we got talking to a local chap who told us that just across the road was a lady-boy protest… WOW! (more…)