Travel guides
Travel guides and stories from Southeast Asia
Guides and stories from five months backpacking through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia with Type 1 diabetes and severe food allergies.
Selected guides
Latest from the road
Start with my Cambodia community trip, or explore practical guides and stories from five months on the road.
Cambodia · Community trip
Why Cambodia? Join my first Type 1 community trip
8–17 December 2026: my Cambodia story, the 10-day itinerary and how to join us.
Vietnam story
The day my insulin froze on the Ha Giang Loop
Five months of insulin versus one can of Fanta.
Type 1 travel
Can you stay in hostels with Type 1 diabetes?
The fridge, locker and nighttime hypo questions I now ask.
Allergy travel
Do you really need food allergy translation cards?
What helped across six countries—and when I still walked away.
Explore by destination
Six countries across Southeast Asia
Guides and stories from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Vietnam
Motorbike loops, hostels and replacing frozen insulin
Thailand
Starting the trip and managing the heat
Laos
Slow boats, long journeys and travelling overland
Cambodia
Angkor, Phnom Penh and Action4Diabetes
Indonesia
Jungle treks, volcanoes and island journeys
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur and the final stop
Vietnam
Vietnam guides and stories
Five weeks, two motorbike loops, one lost bank card and an insulin supply accidentally frozen by a hostel.
Explore Vietnam →Type 1 travel
Type 1 diabetes travel guides.
Practical guides to travelling with insulin, CGMs and backup equipment.
Flying
Insulin, needles and a CGM in hand luggage
Insulin storage
How I kept insulin cool while backpacking
Accommodation
Staying in hostels with Type 1 diabetes
Practical travel tips
Routes, hostels and ordering food
Stories from the road
Personal stories from travelling with Type 1 diabetes
Stories about diagnosis, travelling alone, severe allergies and what happened when things went wrong.