Border Crossing into Thailand : After spending great time in Northern Laos and visiting remote places, next plan was land border crossing into Thailand. After getting on a windy road in a small minibus from Luang Namtha for few hours we finally got to the…
Category: Asia
Northern Laos: We were lucky that our trip to Laos got extended due to the problem with Cambodian visa and we had more time to spend in Northern Laos and Luang Namtha specifically. Located in the golden triangle, this area is the home for some…
If you haven’t read the last post, let me give you a quick update. From the previous post, I started our travel diaries to South East Asia in 2011. It was started with how we got our way to Luang Prabang and how amazing this…
As we are still at home and can not travel, I was writing about our last trip to the South Island of New Zealand that we’ve recently been to. In the middle of writing our diaries about that trip, I suddenly missed a particular trip…
Getting to Varanasi: After spending two horrible nights dealing with my allergic reaction, long layover in New Delhi airport after our first flight from Kochi to New Delhi and before our flight from New Delhi to Varanasi, we finally got to Varanasi around 8:00 in…
Well before starting this post, let me explain something. I’m still being asked if we are overseas at the moment, well like everyone else we are at home and apart from local trips, we can not travel overseas. These posts are all related to our…
How to get there? It has been weeks that I was trying to write this post and couldn’t even start it. With short days of July in New Zealand and the busy season of our projects, it’s hard to find time to do anything useful.…
Why Rajasthan is one of the best first stops, visiting India? 12 years ago, we visited India for the first time. I had a must visit places on my list but we decided to start our visit with Rajasthan before getting to our desired destinations…
On our way back from Egypt to New Zealand, we had few nights stop over in Istanbul and decided to explore some new areas of Istanbul that we haven’t been to so far and we picked Kadikoy. Kadikoy is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district…