A was finally back to her normal self after taking a full day to recover, so with the first ray of light at 5am we started our day. We went back to the Imperial Palace area, in hopes of actually seeing the Imperial Palace. Turned out it only opens at 9, so we took some […]
This day was mostly a write off, since we were all still recovering from the flight. The fever from the night before subsided pretty quickly that same night, but A was still pretty exhausted and we decided to take it easy. After sleeping all night and all day, she was finally ready to start her […]
On our first day, we ventured out to Chiyoda area. I wanted to hit some of the Cherry Blossom spots. The really cool thing was that since Hanami and Sakura season is such a huge event in Japan, Google Maps adds temporary Cherry Blossom viewing spots directly on their maps. We walked around the East […]
After a bit of a travel hiatus, we are finally back at it – and this time with a new member of the family! I was on the fence about traveling with such a tiny human for a very long time. I talked to a lot of my friends who also recently had their own […]
1. Getting mugged in Paris We got up bright and early (as dictated by our 9 month old who apparently really wanted to watch the sunrise over the Eiffel Tower) and made our way to the tourist landmarks of Paris. The moment we emerged from the subway, we were surrounded by a group of teenagers […]
After reading many subpar reviews about the tourist overpopulation in Kuta, we decided to stay in a less popular, but highly recommended area of Bail – Kerobokan. We got very lucky with our host at Dana Guesthouse who took us on a very cheap, full day, private tour around Bali, along with one other couple. It took […]
From Koh Phi Phi, we made our way to Krabi Town. Since we only had one day to spend in Krabi, we decided to try out the famous rock climbing place in Railay park. The guesthouse we stayed at – Gafiyah Guesthouse – helped us organize a climbing trip with King Climbers, and while we were […]
On our second day in Koh Phi Phi we had a bit of rain in the morning. Good thing we had to check out of the most remote hostel ever and find another place to stay. The rest of the day was actually pretty clear, and surprisingly the streets were completely dry by mid afternoon […]
From Phuket we took a ferry to the famous Koh Phi Phi. There are plenty of services that run ferries from Phuket Koh Phi Phi Krabi and conveniently sell open tickets for any time, any day. Going through an agent for this is useless – the public transport is perfectly fine and probably the cheapest […]
After a long overnight train from Bangkok to Surat Thani (~1200BHT, and about 12 hrs), where a vendor sang “Singha Beer, Singha Beer, Singa all the way!” to the tune of Jingle Bells .. all the way.. and a few more busses and scams, we finally ended up in Phuket. Which might as well be […]