Ninh Binh or Tam Coc or Trang An Dilema – Ninh Binh is a province south of Hanoi and it is also a city. Do we stay in the city or do we stay around 7km out in either Tam Coc or Trang An. After researching, we decided on Tam Coc. We are so glad […]
Hanoi to Tam Coc It was time to make our way to our next destination, travelling south from Hanoi to Tam Coc in the Ninh Binh district. This is about a 3 hour direct drive (well as direct as you can get in Vietnam) south of Hanoi. There are a couple of options to get […]
Tangkahan to Lake Toba It was time to leave Tangkahan for the trip south to Lake Toba. We knew what we were in for thanks to our trip in. However, we also were aware of how much rain we had the night before. This we figured, might have some bearing on the condition of the […]
Which is it – Melaka or Malacca This confused me even before I got to Melaka. Which one is the correct spelling and why was I seeing it spelt differently. It’s actually fairly straight forward. Melaka is the Malay spelling and Malacca is the English spelling. The State of Melaka announced earlier this year that […]
The Cameron Highlands has always been on our list as a place to visit. Ipoh to Cameron Highlands To get from Ipoh to the Cameron Highlands, we needed to catch a bus from Ipoh’s main bus terminal – Aman Jaya. Our research told us that the weekends were a particularly crazy time in the Camerons. […]
Ipoh – Certainly a Destination You can be excused if you haven’t heard of Ipoh (pronounced e-pou). When researching how we best get to Cameron Highlands, Ipoh came up as a place to disembark the train from the border crossing at Pedang Besar. It was approximately 2.5hr train trip from the Thai/Malay border and it […]
Sangkhlaburi – Never Heard of It! We’d not heard of this rural village called Sangkhlaburi. It’s situated just a mere 24 km from the Three Pagoda boarder crossing to Myanmar and 225 km from Kanchanaburi. Its seclusion added to the mystique so we wanted to experience the adventure of roads less travelled. It entailed a […]
Nam Tok After our 5 hour train trip from Bangkok to Nam Tok, (see previous blog) we soon settled into our amazing Home Stay. Nam Tok (also known as Sai Yok Noi because of the waterfall in the town) is where the current Death Railway finishes. It is also the closest township to Hell Fire […]
This is where it all started Patong in Phuket is where we first experienced Asia some 8 years ago. We also revisited the area again 6 years ago and we thought that we had pretty much done the area. A lot of travel for us has past since then and we now have a whole […]
Near Death Experience We hired a scooter (I called this one Bert) for the day and we were off to Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tham Suea) which is one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in the Krabi province. The name comes from a cave which it is believed tigers used to live. They have long gone […]