The Chiang Mai Gate Night Market is essentially my dining room. Since my little apartment only has a microwave (which I’ve never used) and a fridge (which only has water bottles), most of my meals are eaten out. While I have a few favourite restaurants around town, it’s the night market that keeps me coming [...]
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It’s time for my visa run, which means I have now been living in Chiang Mai for almost a month. And you know what? I have turned into the worst explorer ever. Go ahead and call me lazy because I really can’t think of any excuses for my lack of motivation, or maybe we can [...]
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When Sam and I decided we would be attending the Digital Innovation Asia Conference in Bangkok, we both agreed that the best way to make our way there would be to take the overnight train from Chiang Mai to the capital. It’s a 14 hour long journey, which means you hop on the train right [...]
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There are days when I catch a glimpse of photos from Korea – my former students doing their kimchi smiles, lanterns dangling in the streets of Seoul in anticipation for the Lotus Lantern festival, or someone instagramming a bowl of sundubu jjigae – and it makes me miss Korea a little bit. Korea will always [...]
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I come to a stop at the intersection by Chiang Mai Gate and wait for the pedestrian light to turn green. A tall farang with forest green hippie pants and a linen tunic towers next to me. I try not to stare at his long goat-like beard and turban of dreads that sits wrapped on [...]
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Tra Que is a small farming community located about 3 kilometers northeast of Hoi An. It’s an easy bicycle ride and a quite scenic one which involves pedaling past rice fields, glassy rivers, and lazy water buffaloes lounging in the mud. I cycled out to Tra Que not really knowing what I would find there, [...]
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It has been three months since I set out on this little backpacking adventure across Southeast Asia. In that time I’ve been Malaysia, where I feasted on roti and curries like I was in India; Cambodia, where I temple hopped around Angkor; and Vietnam, where I was chased down a mountain by local Hmong ladies. [...]
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I came to Sapa to go trekking; I prepared for that trek by eating mocha cake. That should give you a glimpse into my level of fitness… Seeing as I haven’t been on a serious hike since…oh, never…I decided I would start small by hiking down to Cat Cat Village which lies about 2 kilometres [...]
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A knock on the carriage door. The scent of fresh coffee being poured into cups. The gold duvet wrapped around my body. Thick fog hanging over the sleeping hills. The halt of the train pulling into Lao Cai – a train station which lies only 1 kilometer away from the Vietnam-China border. A little van [...]
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I am getting spoiled here. And I mean seriously spoiled! One of the many luxuries of travel in Asia is the incredibly low cost of living. Sam and I are travelling as a couple and we have a daily budget of $50 for the two us. We are staying in nice guesthouses, eating out 3 [...]
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Halong Bay was one of the destinations that I most wanted to visit in Southeast Asia, and I finally made it there last week! Sam and I chose to take a 2 day tour of the harbour and one of the activities we got to enjoy on our first day at sea was kayaking! I [...]
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If you only have time to explore one country in Southeast Asia, choose VIETNAM! Let’s admit it, when it comes to travel, Vietnam gets a bit of a bad rep. Before coming here all I heard were stories of travel scams, robberies, aggressive touts, and warnings that I’d be treated like a walking dollar sign. [...]
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