Roasting.Functional.Bare I had been warned beforehand not too expect too much from Laos’ capital city, and in truth, for the majority, it’s not a pretty town. Seemingly it’s construction boom had been during an unfortunate era of architecture where the sum of combining French colonialism with 1970s modernism bestowed upon its inhabitants a city of […]
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Bucolic.Soothing.Friends. Yet another long bus journey in Laos later and the five of us arrived safely in Vang Vieng where we found some lovely little bungalows to stay in across a questionable bridge over the river. Feeling weary from a long days travel we set out in search of an evening meal and decided to
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Quaint.Colourful.Unwinding It was another long and painful journey South toward Luang Prabang as we winded our way up and down the bumpy mountain roads, that’s when we weren’t waiting for them to be built! The local bus we opted for wasn’t the comfiest choice as we had the tough decision of having the windows open
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We left Dalat bunged with a cold but full of optimism for our next destination Hoi An, a place we have yet to hear a bad review about. We broke the journey up a little by stopping at the entirely Russian dominated Nha Trang, a beach resort city that was nice for the night we
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Chilly.Perched.Picturesque. As mentioned in the previous blog we planned our next location to be the Con Dao Islands. We did some research and asked about the ferry whilst in Ho Chi Minh and were told they leave daily at 5pm from Vung Tao. So we left at midday on the 2hour journey there to make
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Rushed.Hectic.Diverse After our encounter with the mental Vietnamese woman on our last night in Cambodia we weren’t expecting to be greeted with open arms as we crossed the Cambodia-Vietnam border. As was the case. There was a group of dodgy men gathering round us eager to rip us off with a motorbike ride to the
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Peaceful.Confusing.Laidback After a very cramped and stuffy two hour minivan journey we arrived at Kampot. Before we headed to our guesthouse we got some tasty streetfood for 50p a plate, it looked a bit like worms but at that price who’s complaining! From pre-booking at Ganesha Guesthouse we knew the place was a bit out
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Tropical.Watery.Un-touched. Granted, Koh Kong might at first sound like another rural destination that you’ve never heard of but you may or may not find it more recognisable as the home of the Cardamom mountains. To be honest we knew very little except that we miss the mountains and we both like cardamom. Especially in steaming
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Apologies if you are getting bored of reading about Bangkok, even I must admit that it is growing tedious writing about the same place. Things that were new and exciting have become commonplace for us now on our third visit to the city after almost a month spent here. With all that said it in
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Very.Merry.Christmas Three hours drive from Bangkok lies the town of Hua Hin, where we had chosen to stay for twelve days over the Christmas period. As we wanted somewhere nice to stay for Christmas we went way out of our poor travellers budget and treated ourselves to a swanky ‘condo’ with private pool and beach.
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Returning to Bangkok from Mae Sot was similar in ways to returning to Pokhara from Annapurna (for those loyal blog readers this may make more sense.) It felt like returning home, to a place that is welcoming, familiar and comfortable. Yet at the same time, it is only when returning to this homely place that
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Pulsating.Delicious.Colourful Bangkok. the word conjures up images of crowded streets, neon lights, late nights and ladyboys. Our first stop in South East Asia, after our Indian and Nepalese excursions was highly anticipated, and the Thai capital has more than delivered as I think we are both already rather fond of the city. I remember
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