D.N.A Travel
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Yangshao our first taste of China’s beauty and craziness
Yangshao itself is a bizarre place and probably one of the best places to highlight the two extremes of China. It has incredibly stunning...
Crossing into China
In the morning we met up with our tour group at 7am in the communal area and meeting our first tour guide, Ali. It was a reasonable size...
Hong Kong- Splitting our time between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island
Arriving into Hong Kong was very exciting, it was the first place I came to from the UK when I travelled at 18. At the time it was like a...
Last days in Japan
Time flew in Japan and we couldn’t believe we were back in Tokyo already enjoying that last couple of days there. For our last couple of...
Yokohama
Our plan initially after Kyoto had been to head back to Tokoyo for a few days before our flight to Hong Kong. However we had heard a lot...
Kyoto
After a short 30 minute shinkansen bullet train from Osaka we arrived in another city, the city of Kyoto renowned for its beautiful...
Osaka
From a small quiet town on an island (Niihama/Nyguawa) to one of the largest cities in Japan, known for its food culture, Osaka. We...
Nihama
Niihama is on the small island of Shikoku, in Ehime prefecture. It is not the main city on the island the capital being Matsuyama. The...
Hiroshima & Miyagima
After grabbing a hearty yoshinoya beef bowl breakfast and lunch from 7/11 for our train ride we boarded the Thunderbird 18 train to from...
Kanazawa
From Takayama we took the train to Toyama to transfer to the train to Kanazawa. In Kanazawa we had a last minute invitation to stay with...
Takayama
On planning our trip around Japan we really wanted to experience some different festivals, as there are always lots of different...
Sendai/ north of Japan
After Tokyo we had planned to head north of Tokyo, basing ourself in Sendai and then doing days out to different areas of northern Japan...
Tokyo
We were very excited about arriving in Japan. Japan had been Dave’s suggestion for the trip and until that point it was never somewhere I...
Siquijor and Cebu
After an hour and half we arrived on the Ocean Jet liner, into Larena in Siquijor Island from Bohol. We took a tricycle (400) around to...
Cebu- Couchsurfing with Castro
We arrived into Cebu airport an hour later from Palawan, where we had arranged to stay at a Couchsurfers. After an initial panic of not...
Palawan- Port Barton
We had booked a direct bus to Port Barton from a kiosk in El Nido for 500 each. We knew very little about Port Barton apart from that it...
Palawan- Puerto Princecssa and El Nido
We arrived into the capital of Palawan, Puerto Princessa at 6.45pm from Manilla. Palawan is a well travelled island by backpackers-...
Banue
To start our journey to Banue we had to take the overnight bus so we headed to Ohiyama Bus Station via a grab (267). We exchanged our...
Manilla
We flew with Philippine airlines to Manila from Bali. After a late board onto the plane (1am) we were then served the evening meal- not...










