After a couple days at Inle we caught a flight to Mandalay where another really beat up car, this time with a Mercedez emblem attached to the front, drove us to our guest house. [read on]
The next day we caught a 15 hour bus ride north to Bagan to visit the famous temples there. We arrived around 5am and caught a local ‘taxi’ – a horse and buggy – to our hotel where we were pretty sure we were the only people there for 2 days as it’s almost hot season and most tourists stay away. We arranged for this same ‘taxi’ driver to be our chauffer for the next two days at a rate of about $8/day, and later found out we got ripped off a bit but didn’t feel too bad because he was a really nice man. He took us to catch the end of sunrise above an empty temple and we were completely floored when we looked across the vast, flat, open landscape which revealed around 2000 ornate and majestic temples of similar style but various sizes. [read on]
We finally made it to Myanmar, after all the visa problems and detours and it was well worth the wait. Our first stop was Yangon. [read on]
We started in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and slowly worked our way north to Hanoi for a total of 2 weeks in Vietnam complete with a ton of tours, a party boat, scuba diving, a Vietnamese cooking class, great eats AND some great company and lots of laughs. [read on]
We caught an evening prop-plane flight full of mosquitoes from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia and said to once have been perhaps the finest city in all of Southeast Asia. That is, before the Khmer Rouge wreaked havoc on the country in the late 70’s, which included clearing everyone out of the capital and other cities into the countryside to “re-educate” them as agricultural peasants, leading to the death of a few million people. One can still see why Phnom Penh was once held in such high esteem as it has some elegant wide boulevards and grand colonial houses courtesy of once being under the French as part of Indochina. And it doesn’t feel anywhere nearly as overly crowded as other SE Asia cities such as Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), sadly courtesy of the Khmer Rouge. [read on]
After a quick flight from Phuket to Bangkok and another to Siem Reap, we arrived at the airport around 8pm and though it was dark out I (Anthony writing now) could already see that this was not the same Cambodia that I had experienced nearly 8 years ago. [read on]
Yes, its true - Shan’s parents crashed our honeymoon and it was actually really great. First, we spent a week together in Bangkok and Phuket. For more on our time in Thailand and pics [read on]
We are proud that we did make it out and about in Singapore despite our attachment and addiction to Casa Becky. For more on Singapore…
After getting some R&R and not leaving Becky’s apartment for a few days (except for when we were forced out to find food after finishing off what was left in Becky’s kitchen AND to go to the pool), we decided that it was time for us to get back into our travel groove so we decide to head up to the state of Melaka, Malaysia to check out they well-known capital Colonial city of Malacca. [read on]
So, we were supposed to had over to Myanmar from Luang Prabang, but low and behold we encountered our first unexpected traveler’s bump in the road. Find out why we’re in Singapore [read on]
