When Raquel and I got to South Africa, we had a grand plan of road tripping to various Southern African countries, as I wrote about in this post. However, when we arrived in South Africa, and started calculating the costs of this road trip, we had scaled back the trip to only heading to Swaziland … Continue reading »
My brother got married last weekend and for his wedding he had a few friends come in from abroad, which meant that as was brother was getting this organized for the big event, I was given tour guide duties and make sure that the friends got a see a bit of South Africa.
When Raquel and I started dating and things became more serious, we said that 2012 would be a pivotal year for us; a year in which a few decisions about our life would be made.
After a fantastic five days with Jing and Li in Macau our trip was coming to an end. We still had one full day in Hong Kong before catching our flight to London and thereby ending our amazing honeymoon.
After an amazing five weeks backpacking in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, we now moved on to the next stage of our honeymoon, which meant a lot to Raquel, as we were headed for Macau, home to one of Raquel’s bridesmaids, which could not make it to our wedding. So instead of wondering what could have … Continue reading »
For Raquel and I, Laos was an unknown beast. We had very little I idea of what awaited us before we went, with the exception of the very little we read of the country.
One of the last things we did in Luang Prabang was go to the theatre. Yes. The theatre. It was billed as a traditional Lao play, with stories from its mythology acted out by locals.
Laung Prabang being a Buddhist city has one particular attraction, which has everything to do with the religion, but has been destroyed by tourism: Alms giving to the monks.
Luang Prabang has two main waterfalls to visit, one being the bigger Kuang Si waterfall, which we had seen, and the other the Tad Se waterfall that was smaller, but they had elephants, which you could take for a ride around the area.
After three days of an exhausting (but simply amazing and incredible) we were in no mood to anything strenuous and considering that we had fallen in love with Luang Prabang, we decided to stay until the end of this leg of our trip and just relax and do nothing more.
We woke up around 6:30am and were dry, which was a relief, however being awake this early in the morning was not my favourite thing, but oh well when in Rome, live like the Romans. Everyone was up and about going about their early morning business and as soon as the kids caught wind of … Continue reading »
I like a good trek or camping experience and Raquel is no different having served in the scouts for years, it is because of the this that we jumped at the chance of doing the trek in Sapa, Vietnam. However due to the lack of, authenticity of that trek, we were constantly on the lookout … Continue reading »
If there was one thing we were certain of in Luang Prabang, it was waterfalls. Throughout our trip, everyone we had met that had already been to Laos, had told us about the amazing waterfalls around Luang Prabang.
After a day of recuperation and relaxation on our first full day in Luang Prabang, we were ready for exploring. Luang Prabang is known for its numerous Buddhist temples, so we today was going was to be a temple day!
After an uncomfortable night from the iffy food, I (and so was Raquel) awoke to our upstairs neighbours making a lot of noise. When I say a lot, I mean enough to wake us up at 6am with jumping, speaking very loudly and even a spot of singing. The walls of the hotel were thin, … Continue reading »
Our last day in Cambodia was the 1st of October, which coincidentally was also our first month wedding anniversary! (Don’t worry we don’t celebrate every single kind of anniversary under the sun, so there won’t be more of these). We thought it was pretty cool that we would be spending our first month anniversary in … Continue reading »
Cambodia from the get go was all about Angkor for us, so much so that at times we completely forgot about where we actually were. This was after all Cambodia, home to a people that have been through so much at the hand of the humanity’s most ruthless dictators.
Before coming on this trip I had the idea of doing a whole lot more in Cambodia than just Angkor Wat. Our plans centered on heading towards eastern Cambodia to the Mekong and spending four or five days in that region, trekking and/or taking a ferry or boat up the river towards Laos.
Siem Reap being the base for the Angkor Temples, caters for all types of tourists, budget, luxury and everything in between and because of this the city ends up being over touristy in many aspects, food being one of them. This city reminded me so much of Aguas Calientes in Peru, the base town for … Continue reading »
Having missed out on the sunrise at Angkor Wat on our second day, we made the effort of going on our last regardless of what the weather was like and when we got up, it was drizzling ever so slightly. We decided to risk it anyway, considering it was our last day, and met up … Continue reading »
