We only spent one night in Mae Sot before continuing onward. The next morning, after a nerve wracking wait for our taxi that showed up late, we made it to the bus stop in time for our ride to Chiang Mai. It was over 7 hours long, and along winding mountain roads that were quite […]Read Post ›
I am a little late in finishing this post as we got a bit distracted along the way, but better late than never! Hpa An was our last stop in Myanmar. We had skipped it on our way north from Ye, and we heard that there were a number of interesting caves to check out […]Read Post ›
After spending nearly a week in Mandalay, we decided that Myanmar New Years was not going to stop us from moving on to the next destination of our trip. There were no busses running due to the 6 day holiday, and the flights were too expensive for our budget, so we decided to take the […]Read Post ›
To be honest, I don’t have a whole lot to say about Mandalay. We arrived right before the start of the Thingyan festival – Myanmar New Years – and ended up staying in town significantly longer than we anticipated because we could not find any affordable transportation out of town. The New Years festival is […]Read Post ›
After a long night on the overnight bus, we arrived in Bagan at about 5:30am. Not exactly an ideal time to arrive in a new town, but our hotel, the Bagan Emerald Hotel, was within walking distance of the bus terminal. We took a minor detour and a significantly longer walk than we expected – […]Read Post ›
We took a VIP bus to Yangon from Mawlamyine, and my goodness, what a difference it made! Reclining seats, powerful air conditioning, and a relatively smooth ride. We felt spoiled! Though we were dropped off at the bus station over an hour away from downtown Yangon, so we still had to take an overpriced taxi […]Read Post ›
After Reeny and Kevin headed back home, we started to make our way toward Myanmar. The first step of the process was to get to Kanchanaburi, Thailand, from where we could head toward the land border at Phu Nam Ron, Thailand/Htee Khee, Myanmar. Kanchanaburi was meant to be a short stop along the way to […]Read Post ›
Our arrival in Bangkok marked the halfway point of our trip. After a grueling 13 hour journey from Cambodia by bus, songthaew, train, and metro line, we spent two nights in town before my sister and her boyfriend arrived from the US, mostly spent taking care of business that one can take care of only […]Read Post ›
Siem Reap was our last stop in Cambodia. It is home to the Angkor archeological park, an area with temples built by the Angkor people over 1000 years ago, including the famous Angkor Wat. After a long bus ride from Phnom Penh, we were picked up by a friendly tuk tuk driver (we are always […]Read Post ›
After realizing that Cambodia was significantly more expensive than we initially expected, we decided to look harder into finding a volunteer site to work at for awhile. I carefully read through the hosts on workaway.info for awhile before I remembered a message that a Cambodian host sent me months ago, right after I created our […]Read Post ›
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