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    Cambodia - day 6

    June 10, 2019 in Cambodia ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

    Today we woke up equally as hungover but the weather was INCREDIBLE so mils and I and all the Mui ne boys went to sit in the sea to soak out the alcohol - ended up sitting here for an hour just chatting! After this we had to say goodbye to them and our friends from Koh Rong which was soo sad :( our friend Maria from Australia then arrived which was so exciting and we met her friends who had actually just been in Laos with Liz and Daria (random!) spent the day and night with them sunbathing, chatting, swimming and chilling! (We didn’t take many pics - there had been no signal on Koh Rong or Koh Rong samloem so we basically didn’t use our phones for a week - hence very few pics! )Read more

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    Cambodia - day 7

    June 11, 2019 in Cambodia ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

    Today we woke up and said bye to our friends from twickenham which was sad! We spent the morning hanging out with our friends Rosie and Nel who were in our room and Maria! At 11.30 we had to leave this paradise - we were so sad it had been the funnest 3 days everrrrr!! Got the ferry back to Sihnoukville where had our first proper meal in 3 days - was divine! At 6.30 we got picked up for our night bus to Siem Reap. It was absolutely COMICAL - mils and I had been told we were getting a hotel bus with double beds. No joke my claustrophobia took over when I saw this bed, we were like sardines in a single bed together and the ceiling was about 10cm from our heads when we were lying down. We met the funniest group of people on this bus though and luckily this made it slightly bearable haha!!Read more

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    Cambodia - day 8

    June 12, 2019 in Cambodia ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Today we woke up on our night bus both dying of heat and claustrophobia LOL. We arrived in Siem Reap at about 8.30am and headed to our new hotel Funky Flashpacker. We hadn’t actually booked anything but managed to get a room (shows how relaxed we have got about booking stuff hahah). We then put pretty much our whole bags in for washing and spent the day writing our diaries and chatting with all the Mui Ne boys. Had a yummy lunch and then got ready for the pool party! Was actually really funny and we hung out with our friends from the night bus the night before! Met some girls - one of which had done 1st term uni at Durham and knew Sash before dropping out! We then had the best night ever with Mui Ne boys at the hostel - one our favourite nights out of travelling!Read more

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    Cambodia - day 9

    June 13, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    After going to bed at 3, we had to be up at 4 for Angkor Wat! Headed onto our bus and drove to Angkor Wat for sunrise. It was absolutely beautiful and the sunrise was amazing. We then walked around with our amazing guide hearing all about the history and he explained what each part meant. Got blessed by monks and we took some panoramas where we got in the photo 3 times. After this we had some breakfast and headed to the next place, Angkor Thom temple - this was my favourite with all the hidden faces! After this we went to Ta Prohm where the trees have grown through all the stone which was incredible. We had the funnest group of people aswell so had such a good day - the hostel manager came with us and we had to wear the funky flash packers T-shirt’s as they took promo pics for the hostels Angkor wat trip - was actually really fun! We then headed back to the hostel at about midday after an amazing morning. Packed our bags and checked out! Said bye to the Mui Ne boys and headed to the airport to catch our flight to Luang Prabang - Laos! This was the funniest thing ever - there were 4 passengers on our WHOLE flight! We could sit anywhere and instead of making the announcement ‘flight VA303 ready for boarding’, they announced each of our names like ‘Carly Munn please come to gate 4 for boarding’ was Hilarious - we had a member of cabin crew each!! Got a tuktuk to our hostel Sunrise Riverside which was so cute and met up with Lauren our bestie from Australia who we are gonna try to Laos with! (So random we had the same dates!) met her friends Liv, Matt, ryan and Jacob from Thailand and spent the evening all chatting! Mils and I had an early night after our 45 mins sleep last night!Read more

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    Laos - day 1

    June 14, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Today we woke up and had breakfast with all our friends on the terrace overlooking the Mekong Delta! At 1130 we all headed to the Kuang Si falls which were incredible! Did a boiling hot trek up to the top which the boys made us all do and we were DYING! Came down and swam in the pools which were amazing - the water was SO blue! Chatted and chilled in the pools and jumped in - so much fun. At about 3 we headed back to the hostel where we chilled for the evening! Got ready and had drinks at the hostel all together before all heading to a bowling alley til 3 am! All bars shut at midnight and the only thing open after is this bowling alley - it is so weird but soo fun! Drunk bowling is quite an experience HahahahaRead more

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    Laos - day 2

    June 15, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Today we woke up and had breakfast all together, as we sat at breakfast it started raining so we ended up sitting here for 3 hours just chatting which was soo nice! We all headed for lunch at this cafe called coconut which was local Laos food and was so so nice! After Millie and I went to explore the town Luang Prabang which is sooo cute! we then chilled at the hostel and swam in the pool. Mils, Liv and I spent 2 hours just talking in the pool and sunbathing! Had showers and then we all headed to the night market. Had the most incredible street food ever, you basically get given these huge bowls and you can fill them up with ANYTHING and they’ll heat it up for you all for £1.50!! After this we mooched the markets before heading to a very popular local drinking spot! Us 8 were the only westerners here but it was so busy with locals and had live music! Had some beers and chatted here til about midnight! After this we all headed to the bowling alley and the boys challenged two local boys who worked at the alley to a game of bowling which was so funny! Stayed til after 3 hanging out with these local boys and with the others and then headed back to the hostel. We then all sat on the terrace until 4.30 - v late night!Read more

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    Laos - day 3

    June 16, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Today we said goodbye to Liv, Ryan, Matt and Jacob which was really sad but were hoping to see them in Vang Vieng! Spent the morning sunbathing by the pool and then mils Lauren and I headed for some lunch! After this we had a nap and headed up Mount Phousi at about 4.30! It was sooo sweaty but the view from the top was so worth it! It was beautiful, and the sunset over Luang Prabang was amazing. Whilst we were up here some boys came over and asked if we would practise English with them so of course we said yes, after chatting for an hour or so they told us about a school we could visit and volunteer at so we decided we would do this the next day!! So excited. We then headed for some dinner together and then went to bed ahead of an early morning tomorrow!Read more

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    Laos - day 4

    June 17, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Today was AMAZING! We woke up at 8 and headed to big brother mouse where we were getting the bus from to the Little sister mouse school. 4 of us headed out of town with an American man who had founded the school alongside 2 laos university teaching students! The school was amazing and the children even more incredible. We started off learning about the school and chatting with some young adults helping them practise their English! After this we went and taught 3 pre-school classes one after eachother and it was the CUTEST thing ever. Started off doing headshouldersnkneesandtoes with me stood in the middle of 30 laos 3 year olds was sooo cute! We then taught each class some English including animals and colours was amazing. After this we headed back to help the young adults with their English before having a yummy laos local lunch with all the students! After lunch we had a 10 minute lesson in Laos - it’s the most confusing language ever - if 1 word is said at 3 different pitches it can have 3 different meanings! We also learnt some laos sign language! After this we headed up to the primary school and taught 4 different groups of children with varying English ability description and tenses - was so cute! At the end of the day we danced to music with the children and then played maths games with the young adults. Finished the day playing a world map game with the young adults where you look at a picture and guess what country it is from - it’s so fun and their world map knowledge was actually incredible! Honestly the best day ever - reminded me of India and made me miss it so much! (I Have an amazing video of all the children dancing but can’t seem to upload it here so will show you when I’m home! )Read more

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    Laos - day 5

    June 18, 2019 in Laos ⋅ 🌧 24 °C

    Today we woke up and had our final incredible breakfast pancake at this amazing hostel! We are gonna miss it so much - it is run by the kindest Laos family, the couple have the cutest children ever who come and play on the terrace with everyone - then grandma comes and collects them if they’re too naughty it’s so funny! Mils Lauren and I Got the bus to Vang Vieng - it was actually down the scariest mountain roads in fog but we eventually arrived at about 2! This is when we had a minor disaster, we were walking to our hostel and mils tripped down the kerb splitting her knee open - luckily a lovely Laos woman gave us a lift to hospital where millie got 3 stitches! We then went and checked into our hostel Nanas and caught up w Liv Ryan Matt and Jacob from Luang Prabang! The hostel had free drinks 7-9 so had these all together and caught up! Went out this night in vang vieng to Sakura bar and underground and it was SO much fun :)Read more

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    Laos - day 6

    June 19, 2019 in Laos ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

    After our fab night out last night we were very hungover and didn’t make it out of bed til 11 lol. This is when we found the BEST restaurant in Vang Vieng - huge tuna baguettes for £1 and smoothies for 50p the perfect hangover cure!!!! Mils lauren and I Headed here and had the best lunch ever :) after this we chilled by the pool and then back into our PJs for an early night lolRead more

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    Laos - day 7

    June 20, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

    Today was our FAVOURITE day of the whole trip - was so so much fun we wanna do it all over again! Woke up and had breakfast before being picked up at about midday to go tubing!’ There was a group of like 40 of us so it was sooo good. Got in the tubes at the top of the river and mils got in a boat alongside us! We floated down the river to the first bar, here we played loads of drinking games, jumped off this scary platform and met soo many new people! After a few hours we headed down to the next bar which was so so good. We zip lined across the river and jumped in, drank lots of Lao beeer and danced so much - honestly was the funnest thing ever. At about 7pm we headed back to our hostel and got ready to go out but never actually made it out lol!Read more

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    Laos - day 8

    June 21, 2019 in Laos ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C

    Today we woke up and mils lauren and I headed of course for a sandwich for brunch - we have become obsessed with the tuna baguettes!! Sat here chatting for a while and then headed back to the hostel as it was BOILING! Spent the day sunbathing at the pool and hanging out w all our friends from tubing yesterday! Everyone had the best day was just so much fun! At about 4 mils and I headed back to the hospital to get her dressing changed on her knee - all looked good! After this we got a tuktuk, Lauren mils me and 2 boys from our room to the Nam Xay Viewpoint. Although it was a PROPER trek we were sweating so much the view was honestly incredible - one of the best we’ve seen so far! Came back and had our final dinner all together - our last supper :(Read more

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    Laos - day 9

    June 22, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C

    Woke up very early and got the bus to Vientiane! Said bye to our bestie Lauren at the airport which was so so sad and checked into our new (very very basic) hostel dream home hostel! It was ran by the nicest people ever! Saw a beaut temple and then walked for some lunch and ended up spending the whole time helping a local with his English which was actually so cute! It was BOILING in the city so we headed to Vientiane public swimming pool which was actually super nice and filled with locals! Spent the afternoon chilling and swimming here before having some delicious local food for dinner!Read more

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    Laos - day 10

    June 23, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 35 °C

    Today we woke up bright and early and had free breakfast at the hostel! Headed back to the swimming pool and spent the day chilling out here - definitely needed after our crazy time in Vang Vieng! We then had some yummy local food again before heading to the biggest night market ever with some Australian boys from our room! Was so cool and mils bought some new socks lolRead more

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    Thailand - day 1

    June 24, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    Today we woke up and shared a tuktuk to the airport with the Aussie boys in our room who happened to be on our flight with us! We all checked in and then got on our flight to Bangkok!! After a short flight we got on a bus to the Khao SAN Road where we surprised our friends Liv and Liv at their hostel! Was soooo exciting to be reunited after 4 months!! Sat and chatted before heading to our night bus to Chiang Mai - we had front seats upstairs aka best seats in the house hehe!Read more

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    Thailand - day 2

    June 25, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Today we woke up on our night bus rather knackered at about 6am! dropped our bags at our new hostel Bodega party hostel and then headed for some breakfast which was so yum! After this mils and I went to the local hospital to get Millie’s stitches out finally - so happy. The nurse was so sweet and the cut looked all good :) after this we headed to a pool where we all sunbathed together catching up on each others lives! In the evening we headed to the night market for some delicious street food and some shopping!Read more

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    Thailand - day 3

    June 26, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C

    Today was sooo much fun!! We woke up and rented bikes straight away!! Spent the morning driving out of Chiang Mai to a beautiful national park called Mae Sai!! We bought a picnic lunch and had it by the water before going in the waterfall. It was incredible, i sat underneath it for so long an then explored behind it - was so much fun! After this we hiked to the top of the falls! We headed back on our bikes which was so fun and then headed to the night market again for more local food - the food is so good and cheap so we love it! After this we wandered the markets and Olivia got this huge ice cream before heading back to our hostel! We did the bodega bar crawl this night which was sooo much fun around the different bars of Chiang Mai! Met loads of fun people and didn’t end up getting home til 5.30am. The night was of course finished with the famous 7/11 ham and cheese toasties that are 40p and everyone eats after a night out! Such a good day/night!!Read more

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    Thailand - day 4

    June 27, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Today was SO MUCH FUN!! Woke up rather hungover but got some breakfast to go and got in a grab to Grand Canyon Chiang Mai. It was the funnest 4 hours EVER! We did the inflatable assault course, falling off every 2 seconds especially because it had been raining which made it even sloppier! Went on the huge slides and trampolines into the water and then did this thing where you sit on one end of the inflated bag and then someone jumps on the other end and you go flying into the water was sooooo fun! After this we did a zip lines across the canyon which was so fun and then did cliff jumping - the cliff jumping was sooo high and actually terrifying but so so fun! We then went on these huge slides which literally make you fly into the water was so funny hahha! We then headed back for some street food and had a chilled early night all absolutely knackered!Read more

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    Thailand - day 5

    June 28, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Today was the best morning ever ever ever. We got collected from our hostel at 6am and got in a tuktuk with a few other people! Drove for about 2 hours into the jungle and eventually arrived at Chiang Mai elephant sanctuary. It was honestly incredible, the elephants have this huge huge area of jungle which they freely roam in and the staff are soooo nice. We started off putting on these funny tops as then headed to meet all the girls (elephants) lol. They were absolutely beautiful and so so calm. We fed them bananas, gave them hugs by holding the banana behind them and they wrapped their trunks round us, and even played games with them!! It was incredible. After this we went to a mud bath and literally had a mud bath with all the elephants. We scrubbed them down and ended up getting covered in mud especially me because I was having a mud fight with one of the local boys who worked there lol. Was soooo fun! After this we took the elephants down to the creek where we washed them (& ourselves) and they sprayed water EVERYWHERE hahah! Was so cute. Following this we headed to a waterfall to properly wash off and ended up buying some jewellery from a local jungle lady. Had a huge buffet lunch and then waved goodbye to the elephants at about 2pm! Was the best day everrr!! We then had a nap in our room and went on the bodega bar crawl again this night! Was so fun and met so many good people - even bumped into some friends from Laos! Another late one lol about 4am!Read more

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    Thailand - day 6

    June 29, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Today we woke up rather late as we were all absolutely knackered from the early start yesterday and our night out last night lol. We then headed to a hotel down the road and payed to use the pool. Had breakfast at the pool and then spent the afternoon chilling here! Millie and Liv made up a routine in the pool for us lol and then did us a show!!! We headed back to the night market again tonight for our final pad Thai from our fave lady, very sad! Watched a movie in our hostel room and had an early night :)Read more

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    Thailand - day 7

    June 30, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Today we had a very early start! Woke up at 6.30am to go on our day trip to Chiang Mai. It was so good, but got off to a funny start. We read on the itinerary that the first spot were hot springs so wore bikinis and it ended up being a hot springs fountain LOL. We then visited the white temple which was so beaut and wandered around here looking at both the heaven and hell parts of the temple! The next stopwas the long neck Karen collage which was sooo interesting. The children start wearing rings at 2 years old and some of the older ladies necks were so long. We wandered around the hill tribe village and watched them weaving scarfs and then visited their straw houses where they live in the jungle! The final place was to the northern most point of Thailand right where it borders Myanmar - did some shopping on the bridge that connects them across the river and bought such a beaut silver bangle!Read more

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    Thailand - day 8

    July 1, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

    Today we got up and went for a yummy breakfast at a local cafe! At midday we got the bus to Pai - I have never ever been on so many windy roads it was crazy and we drove sooo fast lol. Got picked up by the hostel and soon arrived at our FAVOURITE hostel ever ever ever. It is called Nolo Hub and was built and set up by a 27 year old Aussie guy who is the nicest, coolest guy everrr! It has only been open 3 weeks and are only like the 50th guests ever - they only have 2 dorms open and is under construction still! Met the dog from the hostel Bruce who is a hilarious bulldog and sooo calm and then met the staff - Maya is a local Thai lady and is amazing and so nice. We then headed to walking street and had the most delicious corn on the cobs and dinner from the street food market.Bumped into friends from Chiang Mai and then headed back to our hostel for a pre! Met 3 super nice English girls at the hostel and the other 5 guests who were also so so nice! We all headed into town together and bar hopped sharing buckets and chatting - got rather drunk all together was so funRead more

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    Thailand - day 9

    July 2, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Today was SUCH a good day, we woke up so hungover and spent the morning chilling on the bean bags at the hostel - it’s so chilled and it feels like a proper home, Jordan the guy who runs it is so cool and fun! We then headed to a cooking class which was so much fun! We were with 2 Aussie guys and started off by going to the local market to pick out our ingredients - she told us about prices and showed us all the different vegetables and spices! After this we headed back to the Savoei cooking school where we cooked 5 dishes each! I cooked Thai green curry, pad Thai, sweet and sour chicken&veg, spring rolls & mango sticky rice! It was so fun and our foods was actually so so yummy, the lady who ran the course was so cute and found Liv Roberts absolutely hilarious because she was so useless at cooking lol:) Went out with Jordan and everyone from our hostel again tonight was such a good night! We even bumped into friends from castaways in Halong bay Vietnam in the first bar we went to, spent the evening together was sooo nice to be reunited and was such a fun night!Read more

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    Thailand - day 10

    July 3, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Today was genuinely one of my favourite days evaaa! We woke up hanging again lol and had some breakfast! A group of us then headed to the Wednesday gypsy market where we bought fancy dress for a new fancy dress box the hostel is gonna make and then bought plants for the garden which we would come to name Carly and Millie hehe! Jordan is SO full of ideas it’s crazy so every day he basically thinks of fun activities to do so today he organised bracelet making and then a picnic. We went to a hippy jewellery shop/bar where we met the loveliest Thai guy who owned it! Us 4 and an Australian girl sat on cushions on the floor with chilled music on all making these anklets - they were actually quite hard to make but look so good! Was so fun and chilled just all chatting and making jewellery! After this we headed back and reunited with everyone at our hostel (3 new girls were in my room and SO nice) and about 10 of us headed to walking street with Jordan where we bought loads of street food and beers and then took it all to pai canyon. Put picnic blankets down and had a big dinner picnic with drinks at sunset. It was so fun and the acoustic guitarist up there was amazing - the best evening evaaaa!! Millie, Liv Nd Liv them all got tattoos which was sooo exciting by one of Jordan’s friends and they all look amaaazing!! We headed out with everyone from the hostel and bar hopped again! One of the bars had UV paint so I painted everyone lols ! When all the bars shut a guy Jordan knows said he’d keep his bar open for Nolo guests, so we basically shut the front of the bar pulling the metal things down and all sat in here chatting and drinking - was so much fun! Didn’t end up sleeping til 6am - v late night lol!Read more

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    Thailand - day 11

    July 4, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Today was a very boring travel day! Woke up and chilled @ Nolo all wanting to cry - it really has been one of the best hostels ever! Said bye to everyone and then got on our bus to Pai! Had a couple of hours layover so had some food from the night market before getting on an overnight bus to Bangkok!Read more

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