For the past week, Kelly and I have been kicking it on the streets of Luang Prabang, a chill little city on the banks of the Mekong. After Gibboning and Slow Boating we needed some down time to organize photos, post blogs, and sleep!
All in all the place is really nice. There are wats, cafes, [...]
I stole the subject line from the title of a David Foster Wallace book of essays, but it is so perfect for this experience that I couldn’t think up my own clever line.
The Slow Boat is an accurate name for the experience because the Slow Boat is a 2 day boat ride slowly down the [...]
The Gibbon Experience (GE) was advertised as an amazing zipline and wildlife conservation trip in the Bokeo National Park in Northern Laos, hence why we booked ourselves on this crazy trip. Well, they need to tell it like it is, which is that the GE is actually a mudfest full of crazy jungle creatures and [...]
Day 3 in Chiang Mai the ladies (Aine and Kelly) and I split up for the day because I wanted to visit an Elephant Park and they wanted to learn massage. I booked a tour to head out to the Elephant Nature Park
(http://www.elephantnaturefoundation.org/)
“Our mission is to increase awareness about the plight of the endangered Asian [...]
We headed to northern Thailand to check out a most talked about city–Chiang Mai, home to Wats, massage, cooking courses, elephants and more.
Day 1: Cooking Galore
We went out of town on a cooking course at an organic farm, which proved to be an interesting and fun experience. As most of you know I do not [...]
Today we flew from the cutest airport on the planet on the island of Koh Samui to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. So far so good as we secured clean, AC accomodations with in the city and tomorrow we are off to cooking class. Wish me luck as we all know I do not cook.
It [...]
We all survived the Half Moon Party in one piece and without incident. It was a true hippie fest complete with DJ trance music, day-glo painted bodies and white people with dreds. All in all the evening was fun as we chatted with nice people and we even drank the infamous Thai Red Bull, which [...]
If anyone has ever backpacked then they know that you tend to not be quite as hygienic as you are in your everyday life. There is no sense in beating around the bush folks because the life of the backpacker is all about convenience, so somethings are just not as important.
Swimming in a body of [...]
We had to depart Railay early-ish in the morning for an all day journey to Koh Pha-Ngan. This day proved to be our most trying day of travel yet with everything going wrong that could go wrong.
First we hiked out to a longtail boat in knee deep water carrying all of our stuff on our [...]
On Phi Phi we talked with a travel agent from Britain who recommended our next beach be to Railay Beach on Krabi. Having no clue which was better we decided to listen to her especially after we found out about the 3 nights for the price of 2 at a nice resort on the West [...]
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