Travels of Lucas & Cynthia
After finishing up our 6 weeks in Thailand we were ecstatic to finally hop on a plane and make our way to Bali, Indonesia. We had a late night flight scheduled from Bangkok to Bali with a layover in Singapore. We arrived at the airport, bags and passports in hand, waiting our turn to get …
When Lucas booked surprise tickets to Malaysia, I secretly started panicking. For one, i'm a planner, and here we were a few days away from making a leap to another country that I had done ZERO research on! Secondly, we've all heard about the Malaysian flights that had vanished into thin air, so in my …
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Just a couple hours north of Chiang Mai is a town called Chiang Rai. Majority of tourists are attracted to this town because of the beautiful White and Blue Temples as well as the Baan Dam (Black House) Museum. Others are also drawn here because it serves as a gateway to Laos (a common trip …
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After 5 days in Pai, we decided to take a short trip over and through the mountains to a small town called Mae Hong Son near the border of Myanmar. We rented a motorbike and made our way through the beautiful mountains towards Mae Hong Son. We made the drive without any plans arranged. Usually …
Flying from Hanoi, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand we had a bit of a bumpy flight as I experienced my first mild turbulence. The last half hour before landing in Thailand I gripped the seat tightly not letting go for anything. During the landing I let out a big yelp as it felt we were landed …
When my husband and I first started planning our trip to Vietnam we really had no clue how much we would be spending, all we could do is research and take an educated guess as to what it would be. A few people have posted their spendings but since my husband and I are cheap …
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Arriving in Hanoi, it had been 17 days since we landed in Vietnam. When we first arrived in Ho Chi Minh we purchased open bus tickets to get us up to Hanoi, and now that we had used all of our tickets, it was time to plan the next phase of our trip here. We …
When we researched Hoi An, what caught my eye were the beautiful lit up lanterns that lined the streets at night and the bold history of the ancient town. It just looked like a really neat, cool vibe city. When we arrived on our bus at 6:30am we walked around scoping out a place to …
As I sit here on this sleeper bus traveling from Nha Trang to Hoi An I'm supposed to be sleeping but my mind is racing a mile a minute while my eyes are glaring out the window at this full moon thats producing a mirror image on the ocean below it. I can't help …
We have waited for this day to come for what seems like forever but now that we are here in Vietnam, it is just as amazing as we thought it would be. When we landed in the Tan Son Nhat International Airport we were surprised at how empty the airport was, then again it was …
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