Bagan Travel
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The Endless Temples of Bagan

We climbed to the highest point in Bagan to try and fathom the density of ancient Buddhist monuments that flooded the plains. The flat, dusty swath of land with skinny cattle grazing on crab grass wouldn’t seem like a desirable place to build the first capital of Myanmar…but the 2,200 temples, stupas, and monasteries tell…

Bago, Myanmar in Three Hours
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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 most historic cities, we had to make the most of it! We arrived from Hpa An to the 1000-year-old-town-meets-transit-hub and walked right up to the moto-taxis. “We have three hours in Bago,” we said, “Who…

Temples of Mawlamyine
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Magical Mawlamyine & The Ogre Island

It’s three o’clock in the morning in Mawlamyine, Myanmar and we are looking for a place to sleep. Going from overnight bus to taxi van, we wind down the mountain with toward the moonlit shimmer of the Thanlwin river. The cabby takes us to Breezes Guest House, a crumbling colonial mansion on the waterfront. We…

Yangon, Myanmar
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Lost in Time: Yangon, Myanmar

When we were planning the HoneyTrek route, Myanmar (formerly Burma) was still under a military dictatorship, saddled with sanctions and virtually shut to the world. The regime officially ended in 2011, but after 49 years of oppression it hardly seemed like a place you’d want to visit…but everyone we met who’d been said exactly the…

Temples of Sukhothai Thailand
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Sukhothai: The Golden Age of Thailand

We’ll admit, when you see ancient temples nearly every day for nine months you can get a little bleary-eyed and jaded…but our visit to Sukhothai was anything but an ordinary stop in Southeast Asia. While going through our photos for this post we realized we had forgotten how stunning and cutting-edge the first capital of…

chiang mai, thailand temple
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Liveable Loveable Chiang Mai

When people ask us, “If you could live in any city in the world, where would it be?” In Africa we’d say Cape Town, in South America…Buenos Aires, in Europe…San Sebastian, Spain, and in Asia it would be Chiang Mai, Thailand. There is something so loveable and liveable about this little northern city. It’s got…

Istanbul, Turkey
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Turkey Travel Guide

Turkey’s location straddling two continents, surrounded by eight countries and two seas, makes it one the most dynamic destinations. The fascinating mix of European and Asian culture, beaches, history, stunning landscape, fresh cuisine and an emerging wine scene is unbeatable. Plus, it is one of the most affordable countries in Europe and pairs well with…

Citadel flag in Hue Vietnam
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Hue: A Colorful Town

Said to be the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual heart of Vietnam, Hue is full of palaces, pagodas, tombs, temples, and a dash of French colonial flair. It was the country’s political capital from 1802-1945 under 13 emperors of Nguyen dynasty and their decadence is largely what makes the area so beautiful. Just 80 miles from…

Northwestern Cambodia
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Hitchhiking in Cambodia

As the saying goes, it’s about the journey not the destination, and this could not be more true of our renegade road trip through northwestern Cambodia. We’d heard that within a couple hundred kilometers of Siem Reap was the mother of all overgrown tree temples, a former Angkorian capital, and finally a 1000-year old clifftop…