hong kong Not much of a photo diary, but after Thailand, John and I hopped on a plane to Hong Kong for Christmas. There was so much to see and do and such little time that I didn’t really take that many photos in Hong Kong and the ones that I did didn’t come out so great. Plus, towards the end of our long trip, I kind of got a…
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photo diary: chiang mai, thailand
Read morechiang mai, thailand Chiang Mai was a nice break from Bangkok. We went up on an overnight train for a weekend before heading to Hong Kong, and while I wasn’t feeling too well (I had an allergic reaction to something, I don’t actually know what it was, but that’s another story entirely) I still managed to enjoy my time there. Chiang Mai is very small. We were able to walk from…
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photo diary: ayutthaya, thailand
Read moreayutthaya, thailand While staying in Bangkok, we decided to do a day trip to the city of Ayutthaya and visit all of the ancient temples there. We contemplated doing the trip on our own, but instead booked a small group tour from our hostel for a full day tour of the temples of Ayutthaya with an English-speaking guide, lunch included for 800 Baht each. The tour was great. We had to…
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photo diary: bangkok, thailand
Read morebangkok, thailand After a really long trip by ferry and bus, we made it to Bangkok. The bus we were on left us somewhere in central Bangkok and after an hour or so of trying to find a reasonable taxi to Hua Lamphong, we made it to our hostel, @Hua Lamphong, only to realize that we didn’t have a room booked for that night. When we initially planned the trip, we…
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photo diary: phuket, koh phi phi, koh Samui + Koh phangan, thailand
Read morephuket, thailand We finally made it to Thailand! From Penang, we flew into Phuket, an island on the west coast of Thailand. We only stood in Phuket for a couple of days and used it as a home base for the famous Phi Phi Islands. We stood in Karon Beach on Phuket, which was very nice and probably a much better choice instead of touristy Patong Beach. Karon was quiet and pretty…
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photo diary: kuala lumpur + penang, malaysia
Read morekuala lumpur, malaysia We visited KL for a few days in order to travel through from Singapore to Thailand. KL is a fair city. We were only there for about three days and really didn’t do very much. We ended up taking a really nice Aeroline bus from the Harbourfront in Singapore to KLCC. One first impression, I thought KL was the fusion of Jakarta and Singapore. Like if Jakarta and…
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photo diary: singapore
Read moresingapore Not going to lie, but I was happy to leave Indonesia for Singapore. I had been anticipating coming here the whole trip so far and was just so excited to finally be there. Indonesia is a beautiful country, don’t get me wrong, but I think after a month I needed a bit of a metropolis. I am a big city girl at heart and I think I just needed…
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photo diary: yogyakarta, indonesia
Read moreyogyakarta, java, indonesia After our stay in Malang and our excursion to Mount Bromo, we made a long train journey to Yogyakarta. Being one of th biggest cities in Java, We were never really bored with Yogyakarta. Maybe because our homestay had a swimming pool for us to cool off, or because there were a lot of restaurants in the area of our homestay, but we always found something to do.…
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photo diary: mount bromo, indonesia
Read moremount bromo, java, indonesia November 5, 2015 at 12:30am. We get into a tiny teal green Toyota-branded jeep, driven by a very nice man named Hary, for what will be a 3 hours journey up the side of a mountain at night. Hary looks us over as we settle ourselves in, glancing at my friend John’s pantless legs, telling us “Bromo is cold” so matter-of-factly that we somehow don’t believe him. I…
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photo diary: ubud, indonesia
Read moreubud, bali, indonesia After Kuta and a day of temples, we finally made it to our next stay in Ubud. We stayed at Jangkrik Homestay run by a lovely family with two very adorable dogs. We stayed for about a week, which I think was just a bit too long in terms of finding new things to do in Ubud, but it was very relaxing. On our first full day,…
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photo diary: tanah lot and other temples in bali
Read moretanah lot, bali, indonesia Before we left out hotel in Kuta, John and I hired a driver to take us to our homestay in Ubud. Our initial intention was to go straight there and do a bunch of day trips to the surrounding temples, but our lovely driver–who I’m going to call Gus because I can’t for the life of me remember the man’s name but it sounded like Gus–told us…
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photo diary: kuta, indonesia
Read morekuta, bali, indonesia After 20+ hours of air travel and layovers, I finally made it to Bali with my dear friend John. It was around 4pm on a Friday afternoon when we arrived and we were absolutely exhausted. Yet somehow the both of us managed to functionally stay awake until evening time (like about 9pm) so that we’d be able to sleep through the night. Our first day we didn’t do…