Category: Countries
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Thailand Part 2: Chiang Mai and Kanchanabury: Coffee, zip lining and tigers oh my!
And this is part two of my travels through Thailand, particularly Chiang Mai and Kanchanabury. You can read part one here. Chiang Mai is a lovely little city, said to be the intellectual centre and former capital of the old kingdom. We stayed at a beautiful and cheap place called Namkhong Hotel which was just…
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Thailand Part 1: Bangkok and Phuket: Excess and The Art of Eight Limbs
Thailand bracketed my entire south east Asian trip. I flew in from Korea in March and flew out to Taipei in June. I only visited 4 cities: Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai and Kanchanabury. The only way to capture Thailand’s awesomeness is two cut it up into two parts. Part one is about the craziness that…
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Laos: Laid back, Great Scenery, Great Coffee and… Polish Lessons?
Laos was awesome. It just was. The scenery was gorgeous. The coffee was great (I bought a kilo to take home with me). The people extremely nice. The pace of life was sooooooo laid back. Small cities (you could walk across the capital in a couple of hours). And best of all, it’s cheap. For…
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Vietnam Part 2: A girl, a dog, and some tea leaves
And the second part. You can read the first part here. To finish up my eye-opening trip to Vietnam, once in Hanoi I met this “English student” around Ho Kiem Lake (maybe, but not likely a student). We’ll call her Doong. Doong was cute and knew all of the cute things us foreign guys like…
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Vietnam Part 1: The Good and Bad
Well, I’ve waited to write this post for quite some time because I didn’t like the place. Then, I ended up writing so much that I have to cut it into two parts to make it more digestible. So, part 1 is about the positives and negatives of Vietnam. Part 2 is about an eventful…