We spent the last portion of our tour in Vietnam in and around Hanoi. Everyone who spends any time in Northern Vietnam goes on the Halong Bay Tour, it’s a given. I’m sure you have seen the many amazing pictures of the karst formations popping out of the bay. Initially, we had planned to do an overnight […]
While in Bangkok for Songkram, we stayed for free (by using some of our Club Carlson points) in the Park Plaza Soi 18, which had the biggest room we had stayed in during the trip (our next hotel, the Conrad Cotai in Macau blew this hotel out of the water, more on that in a few days). […]
I can tell you right now, throwing ice-cold water into a stranger’s face is really fun. It’s even more fun when they laugh and get you back by squirting you with their massive water-gun. How do I know all of this? Aurelien and I spent a day in Bangkok participating in the biggest water fight […]
Traveling is an adventure! Sometimes things don’t go the way you planned or hoped: buses get delayed, mosquitoes swarm you and all you can think about is dengue fever, you might lose some money or get ripped off, you might get sick, or sweat buckets in tropical locations. If you are not careful on long journeys […]
We spent two weeks in Ubud, Bali relaxing and enjoying the many delicious vegetarian restaurants. Most of the time consisted of swimming at our guesthouse’s pool, eating delicious food, doing yoga, working and reading books. The amount of “tourist” activities we did could have fit into a four day visit, but we were happy slow […]
{We spent the afternoon at the waterfalls with Aurelien’s sister who put most of this post together for us.} Eastern Thailand is not going to be found on many tourists’ itineraries, except perhaps for a trip to the island of Koh Chang. Thus our visit to the Chantaburi area gave us a chance to see […]
At the end of our month living in Chiang Mai, we were a bit concerned that none of our other destinations would come close to matching the amount and variety of delicious restaurants we found there. Lucky for us, once we arrived in Udud it was clear that Chiang Mai had a worthy competitor. The […]
One of our concerns before leaving home for our travels was what we were going to do when we needed to make a call, or wanted to check the internet while out and about. We considered using an international plan with our US-based carriers, but we weren’t going to use the phone enough to justify […]
