One of very few photos of us together. We need to take more! This one is from Hong Kong at Chi Lin Nunnery.
Happy New Year! We wish our readers an excellent 2014. Its been over a month since our last overview, so here is another update.
Welcome everyone from sunny Krabi, Thailand!! Anna-Lisa and I have spent the past two weeks traveling back through time in the beautiful country currently known as Myanmar (formerly Burma). Myanmar hasn’t yet hooked up high speed internet through their country, so we spent the time simply traveling and maintaining minimal contact with the outside world. We finally arrived to the beach town of Krabi yesterday and got to enjoy our first experience of the Indian Ocean’s perfect water today! Anna-Lisa had been getting extremely excited for this moment, as she continually kept asking me why we had planned our trip in a way that it would take 2.5 months of travel before we were able to hop into the ocean.
Full moon in Mandalay, Myanmar
Since our last update in mid November, we’ve done quite a bit of moving around, as you can see on the map below. We took a quick trip to Laos to do an amazing adventure including zip-lines, sleeping in tree houses in a massive jungle. We then left Chiang Mai a couple weeks later and sauntered through Myanmar, visiting 3 of its most common destinations and Yangon, the former capitol city. Myanmar was an extremely interesting and nice place to visit, and things are changing there so quickly, that we are looking forward to sharing our experiences there with you. Finally, we are now in Southern Thailand and plan to beach hop for the next 3 weeks or so.
Our travels from mid-Nov to the end of Dec 2013.
Some updated stats from the first 2.5 months of our trip:
14 locations visited
11 total flights, 17,500 miles flown
Another 1,500 miles spent on Buses, Trains, and Boats
17 nights spent with awesome friends and family around the world
2 nights spent in a treehouse 100+ feet above the jungle floor on our Gibbon Adventure
1 night spent on a train
43 total nights spent in 16 different hotels/guesthouses
24 nights spent in our apartment in Chiang Mai
Looked at 2,500 pagodas/temples
100(ish) freshly made smoothies consumed by the two of us (Passion Fruit mixed with anything is my favorite!), countless curries and way too many meals at restaurants (Annalisa is missing her kitchen!).
Pagodas in Yangon, Myanmar
Enjoying all of the fresh fruit. Pictured here is a mango lassi we enjoyed in Chiang Mai
Its been interesting for me to see which of our posts are the most popular. In case you missed them, here are posts about some of our favorite activities we did while we stayed in Chiang Mai!
View from a tree house in Laos. It is hard to capture the height and beauty on camera!
I’ve also created a couple extra pages which can be accessed from the header bar that organize our posts in different ways. Anna-Lisa and I don’t seem to like posting in chronological order, so you’ll note that one post will be from activities in October, while the next is from December.
Trip Around the World – This tab was created to help our readers figure out the chronology of our trip. Here I’ve listed all the places we’ve stopped on our trip, along with links to posts relating to each stop.
Miles/Points Info – This tab has links to all the posts we write concerning how to collect points and miles to use on your own trips.
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