April 30 – May 18, 2016 From Ayutthaya we caught a wait-until-full-van back to Bangkok, got dropped off on the side of the highway, walked to the airport, jumped on a plane and flew to the ex-pat friendly city of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. An old quarter surrounded by a crumbled down wall and … More Slowing down in Thailand
April 25-29, 2016 Ayutthaya, the locals call it ‘Venice of Asia’ (but Hoi An gets that title in our opinion), is an island four kilometres by three kilometres surrounded by three rivers. An hour and a half van ride from Bangkok, we never really left the concrete jungle to get here. Instead of a bus … More Wat Hopping in 44.7C Ayutthaya, Thailand
April 22-26, 2016 For a better reading experience when in email, click on “Honkless Bangkok” above to open this post in our website. A short one hour flight on Nok Air from Hanoi, Vietnam and we landed in Bangkok, Thailand. A city that we have heard “just get out” or “you will love it or hate it”, … More Honkless Bangkok
Experiencing different cultures is the best part of travelling. Thankfully, we are not all the same. Following is a list of things we saw in Vietnam that made us smile, chuckle or made us go… hmmm. This list is not meant to insult, judge, or criticize; it is merely a way to remember it all. Man … More Things that made us go hmmm… Vietnam
April 3 – 21, 2016 As we wait for the sleeper bus from Phong Nha to Hanoi in the pouring rain with other travelers half our age, it hits us that we are in fact fairly old. While we cut ourselves off from fluid intake at 7:00 p.m. knowing we have a ten-hour bus ride … More Compelling Northern Vietnam
Hue, March 27, 28; Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park area March 29 – April 2, 2016 We hiked 4 kilometres (km) into a cave and the ceiling height where we stand is 70 metres high (22 stories). Our head lamps provide the only beam of light in the pitch blackness. Fine moisture and sand particles … More Caving in Vietnam
March 17 – 25, 2016 Our ten-hour sleeper bus trip from Nha Trang arrives at 5:30 a.m. in Hoi An, the city of lanterns. Everything is closed, which means everything looks abandoned. Metal cages close up the entrances to really ugly square concrete buildings ten feet wide by many (3-7) stories high. The concrete buildings … More Goose Bumps Finally… Hoi An, Vietnam
We leave the grumpy old man behind in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and head for the hill town of Dalat (Đà Lạt) via the infamous “sleeper bus”. Take your shoes off at the bus entrance, place them in the plastic bag provided by the driver and squirm your way down the narrow hall to … More Southern Vietnam – Escaping the City
March 16, 2016 We take a four hour, air horn blaring bus ride from the hill city of Da Lat, Vietnam to the seaside resort of Mui Ne, Vietnam. The bus doesn’t stop where we thought it was supposed to (we hear this is common in Vietnam) and we end up five kilometres (km) from … More Ignorance would be bliss
March 3-6, 2016 … too long! Disclaimer: This post is written by a person who is 95% happy go lucky dude and 5% grumpy old man when all the grumpy elements are in alignment. Christine says if we had spent any more time together in Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC, formerly Saigon) that she would … More Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam brings out the grumpy old man
The Roaming Two 