Hypnotic Hanoi
Hanoi is an Asia metropolis at its most romantic. With strong Chinese and French colonial influences and plenty of Vietnamese
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Asia
WWOOF Japan – Our Japanese Farm Experience
We’ve always known that we would WWOOF Japan (World-Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms…a.k.a. Travelers willing to work four-to-six hours per
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You Know You’re in Japan When….
Japan is sort of its own special planet. Nowhere is this clean, people are never this nice, and nothing is
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The Laos Elephant Festival
As luck would have it, we were in Laos during one the country’s biggest events…The Elephant Festival. Eles are the
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You Know You’re In Laos When…
The Land of a Million Elephants is as magical as the name would suggest. Cruising down the Nam Ou river
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Crash Course in the Japanese Arts
How to tie a kimono, arrange an ikebana flower arrangement, write kangi calligraphy…these are skills we never dreamt we’d learn,
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You Know You’re in Nepal When….
Nepal is a country of extremes. It’s got the biggest mountains, the wildest rivers, and the oldest cities we’ve seen
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Indonesia: Lombok & The Gilis Gone Wild
A string of tiny tropical islands, fringed in coral, dotted with palm-trees, and traveled only by horse cart and bicycle…the
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The Back Roads & Warm Hearts of Thailand
Sometimes the biggest snafus turn out to be the best experiences and our botched road trip from Chiang Mai to
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Bago, Myanmar in Three Hours
We generally try not to speed-tour a town, but when faced with a three-hour bus layover in one of Myanmar’s
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The Ever-Popular Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang is on the list of must-see Southeast Asian cities. With royal roots, pristine temples, French colonial architecture, Buddhist
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