Central & Southern Vietnam

Some images of a journey from Ho Chi Minh City up to Hue and Hoi An, ending on the island paradise of Phu Quoc.
We recommend getting to Phu Quoc as soon as you can, development comes fast to the island… now is the time to go
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Boats and Bungalows

The boat trip from Ban Nakasang to Don Khone in Southern Laos, passing Don Det on the way – before ending at the floating bungalows of Salaphae – absolute bliss The journey take about 30 minutes in total, but here is a short clip…

Cambodia: A beautiful, hauntin…

Cambodia: A beautiful, haunting and heart-breaking country http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a1882892.html

I love Hanoi

… there I’ve said it!  Let me explain the reasons for this…

First off it’s very easy to get to.  Choose from flying in via KL, Singapore, Bangkok, Luang Prabang, the list goes on…  Lets just say (otherwise I will be listing airports for a while) that Hanoi is easy to get to from a large [...]

Kuala Lumpur…

KL is a place I seem to end up going back to time and time again.  There are a number of reasons for this… The reach of Air Asia makes KL one of the best hubs to get to anywhere in South East Asia (I think that is the main reason).  Also, it’s an easy [...]

Air Asia sale – book before 17…

Air Asia sale – book before 17/01 http://tinyurl.com/yg32t2h

Trying to figure out…

Which places to blog about first… such a hard decision

who and what is go flashpacker?

Conceived by Chris Rolls (me!), go flashpacker started out life as a resource for travellers to South East Asia. As a regular visitor to the area I found that many people would ask me for information, so anything from how to get there, what to do when you got there, and recommendations (or what [...]

twitter test

Here we go again with twitter tools …

Website outage & new stuff

We had a few issues with the site recently, but thankfully this has now been resolved.
Lesson learned… don’t mess with Permalinks when you have a 301 in place… in case that means anything to you
Looking forward to adding new content to the site, there are so many ideas we have lets hope [...]