Day 49 – Day 50: Sapa

After an average buffet breakfast at the hotel of chicken fried noodles, rice, HARD boiled eggs and watermelon, we packed up our gear ready to head out for trekking. At the last possible minute, Kyle realised his shoes were missing. With some quick photo research we determined that they had been left in the van […]

Day 48: Hanoi – Sapa, Vietnam

Today we had an early start to catch our first sleeping bus to Sapa to go trekking. We had a small breakfast of mango and dragonfruit before heading downstairs to wait for our bus at 6.40 am. We were told the bus would pick us up between 6.45 and 7 am so we were concerned […]

Day 47: Hanoi

The morning was spent organising a trekking tour in Sapa and a boat tour through Bai Tu Long Bay. After spending an hour or so talking to the hostel staff about our options and trying to decide what we wanted to do, we left to get breakfast and talk to some other tour agencies. Banh […]

Day 46: Chiang Mai – Hanoi, Vietnam

This morning was spent packing and preparing for our flight to Vietnam. We had to print and fill out our Visa forms and get some photos each. Luckily the hostel was super helpful and offered to print it all for us, saving us a bit of strife! The photos were royally shit so we were […]

Day 44 – Day 45: Chiang Mai

Breakfast at the hostel was alright, it consisted of cornflakes, toast with jam and marmalade, hard boiled eggs and bananas. It was all self service so at least the pressure to get to breakfast early was gone! Following brekky we set off to explore Chiang Mai’s take on the water festival, here known as Songkran. […]

Day 42: Mandalay

The first day of the Thingyan festival in Myanmar! We woke up excited to hit the streets and find out what the festival was all about. One thing we hadn’t planned well was our laundry. We were both completely out of clothes and desperately needed a wash done, but hadn’t accounted for everything being closed […]

Day 40 – Day 41: Mandalay

After a sleepless night I could not have been more stoked when it was time to get up! My kina finger was extremely sore and I’d been using cold cans of beer and soda out of the fridge to try and soothe it. Finally I could sort it out! My finger was very swollen and […]

Day 43: Mandalay to Chiang Mai, Thailand

Today had a slow start after all the beers consumed the previous day at the water festival and Kyle’s 1am wake up to watch the sixers game. Following breakfast at 7.30 am we were straight back to bed to nap and watch the UFC 236 fight. Kyle’s hard work searching for a stream paid off. […]

Day 39: Bagan – Mandalay, Myanmar

Today we leave Bagan with heavy hearts. It is such an incredible place, we don’t feel ready to leave! Following breakfast at the hotel of fried vegetable noodles, vegetable curry and the usual, the hotel shuttle drove us to the bus stop. Originally they were going to charge us 7,000 kyat for a tuk tuk […]

Day 38: Bagan

At 5.20am the alarms started ringing and Kyle and I rolled out of bed to head out on our sunrise adventure. By 5.30am we were picking up our e-bike from the hotel and gathering viewpoint insight from some fellow early risers who had been to view the sunrise the day before. Stoked that we now […]