Chiang Rai, located in the top northern portion of Thailand, was our destination for a couple days before heading over the border to Laos. A couple hours away from the very popular ex-pat capital of Chiang Mai (of which we spent a few days in before heading to Rai, but …
Our trip to Thailand wouldn’t be complete without spending some time on the islands this country is famous for. We settled on Ko Lanta, located west of the mainland in the Andaman Sea. We continued using ground transport at a slow pace to get there (of course, one can fly …
After our time in Bangkok, we’d been going back and forth about where to go next. After an extensive bit of research and determining it’s not so easy to get to these famous islands Thailand is known for (aside from shelling out to fly), we basically dropped our finger on …
border bussing One of Asia’s busiest capitals and maybe sketchiest, we made our overland into this large city via bus. Coming from Cambodia, this involves transferring buses since the Cambodia bus only takes you to a certain point. Packs strapped on our back we had to make the trek to …
Next up, we head to a quirky little town called Battambang. We chose this place as a midway point on our way to Bangkok and because of this crazy bamboo train contraption we’d heard about. It was once used to move bricks from the brick factory at the end of …
Brace yourselves – this one is long. After 3 days of Angkor, we were templed-out and looking for a different side of Siem Reap. We found out about a countryside tour that would give us a taste, literally, of the local life and happenings, run by a US ex-pat named …
