Category: Asia
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Vietnom: No Hue, Hanoi took Ha Long?
Itinerary (October 12-28): My arrival into Vietnam, Da Nang and Hoi An are covered in my first Vietnam post. Hue To get to Hue from Hoi An, you need to go back to Da Nang and catch a train from there or you can take a bus, but I think you have to change buses…
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Vietnom nom nom
Itinerary (October 12-28): I have to say, Vietnam, your food is scrumptious. What seems like a lifetime ago, I wrote about getting a Vietnam visa because you do probably need one if you fly into a Vietnam airport. Everything turned out fine, so flash forward to me arriving at Ho Chi Minh airport in October.…
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Vietnam Visa Vexation
Visas are so stupid. I just can’t fathom how a piece of paper can determine whether I am allowed to go into the country or not. When I went to Thailand last year, I didn’t even check to see if I needed one. I think living in the EU has made me a tad oblivious…
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What’s Cooking, Good Looking?
I eat a lot. So naturally, that means I would be an amazing chef. Similar to how me walking up a flight of stairs without dry heaving makes me an Olympic athlete. I tried my hand at a cooking class in Chiang Mai since, apparently, that is the motherland* of Thai cooking. After reading a…
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Yee Peng and Loi Kathrong
This festival is straight out of Disney’s Tangled. So weird that a 750-year-old country would copy a 2010 film, but okay. You’ve all seen that perfect snap of those lantern releases on the gram. That was the most millennial thing I have ever said, sorry. I meant to say that there are gorgeous photos on…
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How Can You Be, Krabi?
I scooted to Krabi after Koh Phi Phi, arriving at Klong Jirad Pier. Similar to all other Thailand piers and similar to when Gandolf went to Saruman, I was greeted not by reason but by madness. “Official stands” selling over-priced taxi rides inside the arrivals hall urge you to book with them or you risk…
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Phi Phi hehe
Would people say I am a full-moon party animal? Some may. Although, the only wild part of my night is when I have wild berry tea and instead of getting so drunk that I blackout, I prefer lights out at 10:00 PM. So it was only natural that I would head to Koh Phi Phi,…
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Phuket All
Phuket Airport is in the North of Phuket peninsula, which is mildly inconvenient if your hostel is in Kata like mine was. The same goes if you stay in Pah Tong or Karon. I read online that you could take a taxi for 800 baht (including a 100 baht airport tax), which takes about an…
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Monkey See, Money Do
And what do monkeys do? They scratch and bite. A gal I met in my hostel room in Krabi, Thailand got scratched by a monkey on her chest. She was holding a mango and it climbed onto her to get it, in the process it scratched her, luckily it wasn’t a deep wound. She needed…
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Massage, Thai Massage
I used to have a tan but then I got a Thai massage so now it’s gone. I’m the gluten-free, lactose-intolerant gem of the massage world. I hate to be that person but I’ve had some injuries so my body is fragile. If I ever get a massage for Christmas, I go to a massage…
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