Ha Giang Loop – The bucket-list item we didn’t know we had
We came to Vietnam, after a month in Thailand, with the main purpose of visiting friends, relaxing and working online. For the first two weeks we did just that, but then the opportunity arose to [...]
Bangkok in style
We decided to live in style for the last four nights in Bangkok. We booked into the Royal ThaTien Village, right in the middle of all the top attractions of Bangkok. The hotel is in [...]
The slow way to Bangkok
Surat Thani On arrival in Surat Thani, we went to the first restaurant right next to where the minivan dropped us. There was no English menu, but the owner managed to ask [...]
Half-island life
We finally left Phuket on Monday the 2nd of September after spending eleven ‘easy’ days on the island. Easy in the sense that we didn’t really leave our comfort zone yet and no ‘culture shock’ [...]
Rainy days and 7-Elevens
On Tuesday, the 27th of August we overslept and were packed up just in time for checking out at 12:00. We took a ‘tuk-tuk’ to Kata Beach. A tuk-tuk in Phuket is [...]
We made it to Phuket
Nai Yang Beach, Phuket Phuket immediately felt much cooler than Abu Dhabi, still nice and warm, but not too humid. We were also immediately struck with how ‘calm’ it was. Nobody tried to force us [...]
Off to Asia via Abu Dhabi
This is our 4th big trip together. Big being a trip of more than a month. Our previous trips are our Africa Overland trip, the Indian sub-continent backpacking trip and the second Overland trip into [...]
Angola Trip Report
After a lovely two weeks on the farm we set off North again. We picked up Marleen from the airport two days ago and spend the previous day packing in. On the last night on [...]
Day 28 – 31: Khwai to Maun
The wind was blowing like crazy again when we woke up, so we were slow to start. By 09:00 we went to the reception to ask about the roads. We wanted to drive back to [...]