Laos. The often forgotten country that is snuggled into the rolling hills of Indochina. The difference from Thailand, or any of its neighbors, was immidietly apparent. Gone was the smog and chaos of Thailand. In was instead conservative serenity. Luang Prabang was an ancient capital in the region, and a powerful centre for Buddhism. We …
It was a long day. But it was a day with a temple and a bus. Heading out of Chiang Mai north to Laos, we had a long journey ahead of us. A near 24 hour travel day to Luang Prabang for our fourth and final Indochina country. To get there would be a minivan …
Chiang Mai has a couple national parks nearby, so we decided to take a tour and check one out. We don’t have experience with motorcycles at all. We also see a lot of tourists with road rash and broken arms. It would have been nice to learn beforehand, but that’s OK. Tours are fine for …
The overnight bus to Chiang Mai was relatively simple. There were a few familiar faces on the bus. Seated one row ahead of us was a dude that I had called out in Vietnam for being disrespectful complaining about the night buses there, and a couple of the dudes friends. The dude and I made …
How do you even start. Bangkok. A massive city that comes with all the massive city joys and massive city problems. We inexplicably spent six nights in this city over two stints. We only really spent one of those days doing tourist stuff (our last one). The rest were spent running errands, and hiding from …
Let’s catch you up in our journey at the moment. It’s about 10:30 in the morning on what feels like a particularly hot and humid Cambodian day. It’s just a standard one though. We spent our morning at Angkor Wat, the infamous ancient Hindu temple that once commanded the largest city and in the world, …
One of the worlds crown jewels of ruins lie in the Cambodian rainforest north of Siem Reap. Angkor Wat is the main attraction of the area, but there are at least 50 temples in the region, which were all part of an ancient city. They all form the ruins of Angkor, once the largest city …
The Angkor temple complex consists of the world famous Angkor Wat, but is also consists of over 40 other temples in the region. Adjacent to this region is that of Beng Mealea, a near equally sized temple, but in a complete state of disrepair and natural takeover. Our guide for the day was Pouen, a …
Just north of this Cambodian city is the ancient mega temple ruin complex of Angkor, including Angkor Wat. We did a lot of templing in the area, and those will be their own stories. But we spent some nice time with new friends in Siem Reap as well. The town is nothing too special. It …
We said goodbye to Vietnam early in the morning, sharing the bus with Ben and Kathryn, two travelers we met the night before. The destination was Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The border crossing here was the most stressful one we have ever done. Cambodia has visa on entry, and I guess the admin for these is …