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So if you follow Intrepid Travel on twitter, or get their newsletters, or have been to their website in the past few weeks, I’m sure you would have seen the new competition they are holding. Maybe you haven’t heard or seen anything about it. Let me give you a quick summary. The competition is called ...

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It’s true, I’ve updated the theme and added a whole bunch of new pages and content. One of the main reasons for the change is so I can have more freedom with this theme/layout, which means I can display my photos at a larger size. There’s still quite a few smaller changes I’ll be making, ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 17 & 18 – The Day I Accidentally Found a Dead Body

May 11, 2012

So you might be looking at the headline and thinking “Oh man, these bloggers will write any headline these days.” But it did actually happen… it went a little something like this. We had spent the night out on a junk ship somewhere in the beautiful Halong Bay, and that morning after breakfast, our ship ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 16 – Halong Bay

May 9, 2012
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Halong Bay was great, what more can I say. If you ‘keep meaning to go’, stop making excuses and head out there. For those that don’t know what Halong Bay is, or what it’s all about, allow me to tell you. Halong Bay is in the north of Vietnam, about 3 ½ hours drive from ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 15 – Hanging in Hanoi

May 7, 2012
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When we last left the blog we were sitting at a train station waiting for Dan to return before the train pulled away. We were waiting for a while, and there was still no sign of Dan and the train was to leave any minute, and then he showed his smiling face around the corner ...

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Vietnam: Should you go there?

April 30, 2012
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Well to sum it up in one word – hells yeah. Well that’s two words, but who’s counting. If you’ve been following my blog lately you would have seen me posting about my trip around Cambodia and Vietnam. Why did I pick these places? Well, ever since I got back from my initial big trip ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 14 – Motorbike Tour of Hue, Vietnam

April 24, 2012
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I loved this day we had in Hue, as today our whole Intrepid group was taking a motorbike ride through the city and countryside. Well not by ourselves, but Intrepid had organised enough motorbike riders for us to sit on the back on the bike and enjoy the ride. I was very much looking forward ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 13 – Hey it’s Hue

April 19, 2012
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For those that aren’t sure, Hue the city is pronounced somewhat like ‘whay’, hence that title might make a bit more sense. Today we were leaving the wonderful city on Hoi An, to head to Hue, which was a few hours north by bus of where we were. For the first part of the drive ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 12 – A Day in Hoi An

April 17, 2012
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Day 12 of this Intrepid Travel series see us having a relaxing day in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Hoi An, one of my favourite Vietnamese cities on our journey. We were going to the beach today, which as an Aussie, I was thrilled with that idea. We had the choice of either negotiating ...

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Intrepid Trip: Day 11 – Heading to Hoi An

April 11, 2012
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Happy Birthday Terrie! Well day 11 of our Intrepid tour was Terrie’s birthday at least. It was good timing, having 2 people from 2 different countries having birthdays on the same tour, cause I do like cake so I was quite happy. Our first birthday was Nick’s, which we celebrated just a few days earlier ...

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