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 be ‘offline’ for a week or more. We heard about the Ha Giang Loop, a 400km circular route through the [...]
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 an old shophouse with wooden floors next to the Chao Phraya River across from Wat Arun and next to the [...]
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 chicken or pork, we ordered one of each. We got chicken rice and pork rice, almost the best yet and [...]
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’ due to all the other tourists and generally good English-speaking staff and hotels and restaurants. We took a minivan to [...]
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 a small van like a Daihatsu or a Suzuki mini-van, but in a pickup version with benches at the back. [...]
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 into a taxi or asked us where we are going like in India. We pre-booked the first four nights in [...]
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 Southern Africa. For the first overland trip we kept a daily blog with all kinds of information on how far [...]
Like most people we’ve heard of the Maldives and associate it with white beaches, turquoise waters and bungalows spreading out over the water like fractal art. It was however only seven weeks into our Indian subcontinent trip that we researched the Maldives for the first time. We were in Nepal at the time and [...]
