I met Lance in the town of Nyaungshwe. It was a happy reunion we haven’t been apart that long for ages !! After a glorious bath, some food and a good sleep I was ready to get back to the business of exploring. Lance’s foot was a bit better, after a few days of rest, […]
A six hour bus ride took us from the sweltering plains of Bagan to the cool misty mountains of the Shan State and the trekking town of Kalaw – We had come here to do the 3 day, 70 km hike from Kalaw to Inle lake – however there was no WE in the equation.
The Hike: Kalaw to Inle Lake. Read More »
Bagan is home to the largest and most dense concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas, and stupas in the world with many dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. Of the ten thousand pagodas that were built two thousand remain in various states of repair. We planned to see as many of them as possible. We
Myanmar, what a spectacular country. It took our breath away on so many levels. Our month here felt like a lifetime, we did so much, traveled so far and spent time in the most rural communities we have ever experienced. We were genuinely welcomed with a freshness, long gone in more frequented places we have
Lovely Helen and Neil joined us for an action packed, fun filled two weeks of hilarity, adventure and memories we will laugh about for ever. We travelled from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and then down to the beaches of the south of Thailand. We trekked in the rain, survived capsized crafts, encountered tarantulas, monkeys and
ຫລວງພະບາງ Luang Prabang, the cultural capital of Laos, is a small but beautiful golden city with glittering spires at every turn. It is a place to wander, get lost in the narrows and forget time, and so we did 🙂 . We stumbled across temple after temple, and when we got too hot or too
Its been a dream of ours to wander among the massive stone jars in northern Laos. The enigmatic Plain of Jars is the main reason we came to this country. The greatest mystery in South East Asia. Who made these 2,000 megalithic jars scattered across the valleys and the foothills of the Xiangkhoang Plateau? Why
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Some places fill you with such wonder and amazement you feel as if in a dream. We felt like we had stepped into a different world, a magical, prehistoric one. Verdant, jungles clinging to rocky cliffs and huge storks circling above the towering karsts added to the sense that somehow we had travelled back several
Ninh Binh – Tam Coc Read More »
There are a few different ways to get to Hue from Hoi An. We chose the coast-clinging train route between Da Nang train station (45 mins from Hoi An) and Hue. Hugging the Hai Van Pass on one side and winding across the rugged cliffs overlooking the East Sea, on the other. We were in
We didn’t really think about, how geographically long Vietnam is! We presumed we could just take a relatively quick train/bus from Ho Chi Min to Hoi An. But the day before we wanted to go, we found out the train took 17 hours and the bus took 19 yikes. This country is long!! and we