Category: Travel
Damnoen Saduak and the Maeklong Train Market
January 6, day 90, Bangkok. Two popular sights for tourists to check out when visiting Thailand are the Maeklong train market, and one of several floating markets. We booked a tour to both, which included taking the train to the market, giving us a bird’s eye view on the vendors just inches outside the window as the train rolled in. It’s fascinating to watch them … Continue reading Damnoen Saduak and the Maeklong Train Market
From Hanoi to Bangkok in eighty days
We started this adventure in Hanoi, and after a dozen other locations and what has felt much, much longer than nearly three months, we are now in our last city, Bangkok. It’s fitting that we are ending this journey in the place that was our introduction to Southeast Asia a little over two years ago, when we fell head over heels for Thailand, and especially … Continue reading From Hanoi to Bangkok in eighty days
Mekong Cruise
Our boat journey from Laos to Thailand last weekend was pretty relaxing, not least because there was only one other couple on the boat with us, giving us plenty of room to stretch out for the two long, 10-hour days. The first day we stopped to see the Pak Ou Caves, set in a limestone cliff a steep climb up from the Mekong, where locals … Continue reading Mekong Cruise
Hectic and Wholesome: our Hanoi
Wholesome may seem like the last word that one would use in describing any large city, let alone Hanoi. But that’s the word that keeps coming to mind as I try to wrap my head around all we have seen and experienced here in our first three weeks in Vietnam. As frenetic as daily life here can be, there’s an overwhelming sense of family and … Continue reading Hectic and Wholesome: our Hanoi
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Ziplining to Machu Picchu
Ziplining high above the Santa Teresa Valley, before visiting Machu Picchu. Days 6 & 7 of the Salkantay Trek. Continue reading Ziplining to Machu Picchu
Our most challenging day: Collpapampa to Lucmabamba
Day 5 of the Salkantay, in which I get up close & personal with my fear of heights. Continue reading Our most challenging day: Collpapampa to Lucmabamba
Cloud forest and a Pachamanca lunch: Wayraccmachay to Collpapampa
Descent through the cloud forest. Continue reading Cloud forest and a Pachamanca lunch: Wayraccmachay to Collpapampa
Crossing the Salkantay Pass: Soraypampa to Wayraccmachay
The big day: crossing the Salkantay Pass Continue reading Crossing the Salkantay Pass: Soraypampa to Wayraccmachay
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