Monywa is a small town with essentially no western tourism infrastructure whatsoever. Similar to Mandalay, there are a bunch of interesting and attractive sights scattered within easy driving distance of the city, and yet it doesn’t appear that there are enough tourists to support an industry of tour vans or Read more…
When researching Myanmar, aka Burma, we had heard that Yangon (the capital) didn’t have too much to offer other than the main airport for the country, and most travelers skip it altogether. It sounded a lot like what we’d heard about Vientiane, Laos, which was a city where we really Read more…
After our last exciting post from Bagan, we’re jumping slightly back in time to resume our travels where we left off, back in Thailand…. As mentioned before, Jess and I have been consciously building small amounts of independent time into our travel so as to have a brief reprieve (aka: Read more…
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming…errr…blog with some late-breaking news from Bagan, Myanmar: we’re engaged! We’ll get back to our normal travel blog shortly, but wanted to (joyfully!) announce our engagement and provide all the juicy details that folks have been clamoring to know (and that we want to put Read more…
After a mere 2 hour bus ride from Kanchanaburi we were greeted by the sprawling mass of humanity known as Bangkok. With a population somewhere around 10 million people, the city is an interesting mix of many different types of settings, hurdles and cultures. The city has a pretty broad Read more…
We’d heard that the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand was a really nice, cute place a few hours outside of Bangkok, but other than that we didn’t know much about it. We did know that after a decade-plus each in New York City, we weren’t too interested in overstaying our welcome Read more…
Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand, and on our second time through (after our day passing through en route to Pai), we only had a brief amount of time to explore, along with a fairly streamlined plan for how we were going to spend our time. After Read more…
When we left Laos after our stay at The Gibbons Experience, we had a commute via bus over the border that got us as far as Chiang Mai, Thailand. After a night there we set off for Pai, a smaller town a few hours away and our first real destination Read more…