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By Kenna, on June 18th, 2010.
Foot-loose and fancy-free with Happy Diwali!
Why must all great things come to an end?
Well, since being home ,the first question most people ask us is “what was your favourite place?” And as crazy as it sounds, we can’t pick one. Every country had something different and amazing to offer, and I think
Continue reading Final Assessment: The End of the Excellent Adventure…for now.
By Kenna, on June 4th, 2010.
It feels weird to be writing this when we’ve been home for nearly two weeks, but the memories MUST be documented. So alas, here I go.
Coming home turned out to be a bit of a complicated affair, thanks to cheaptickets.com. I highly do not recommend buying anything from them after what happened to
Continue reading Hello China…and Canada!
By Kenna, on June 4th, 2010.
After Pai, Chiang Mai felt like a gigantic frantic city. Having not dropped the strange shopping disorder Scott and I have developed, we spent the evening at the Night Bazaar shopping. We were also hoping to do one last cooking class – we’ve had such amazing Indian food on this trip that we figured it
Continue reading Last Days of the Adventure
By Kenna, on June 1st, 2010.
So there we found ourselves – stuck on a boat in the Pacific ocean with a tiger. With nothing but turtles to eat and sea water to distil into drinkable water. We would lie on the edge of the boat, trying not to disturb that majestical beast. Whoops, that’s Life of Pi…not Life of Pai
Continue reading Livin’ the Life of Pai
By Kenna, on May 21st, 2010.
Heading into the jungle with the Gibbon’s Experience was one of our most anticipated events on this trip – we had heard oodles of positive things about it and many people ranked it as their number one Southeast Asia experience. For us, it was definitely an experience – although whether positive or not, I’ll let
Continue reading 54 Hours in the Jungle: Surviving the Gibbon’s Experience
By Kenna, on May 19th, 2010.
Scott and I weren’t really sure what to expect from the two-day tour we had signed up for in Laos; the itinerary was a two-day adventure beginning with a trek to a remote village north of Luang Prabang where we would spend the night, followed by some kayaking and a ride on an
Continue reading Straight out of National Geographic: Visiting the hill tribes of Northern Laos
By Kenna, on May 10th, 2010.
Our last few days in Vietnam involved pure luxury. We flew for the first time since Singapore (yes, that is correct, we traveled by bus all the way from Singapore to Hoi An!). Normally we wouldn’t indulge in such a treat, but the flight was actually not much more expensive than the train, and we
Continue reading Last Days in Vietnam
By Kenna, on May 3rd, 2010.
I have a problem. I’m pretty sure my wallet is suffering from depression. She has stopped exercising, she’s lost a lot of weight, and she doesn’t take joy in the same activities as she used to. Hoi An, I blame you, and the 23 kilos of materialistic consumption I indulged in while visiting
Continue reading Hoi An, You Took All My Money.
By Kenna, on April 29th, 2010.
Did you know that much of the Vietnamese language has a French influence, and that modern Vietnamese writing uses the Roman alphabet? This has been a bit of a relief for us, because now we can kind of tell what is going on around us, as opposed to the cryptic Thai and Khmer
Continue reading La Cookaracha! La Cookaracha! Nanananana ‘Nam….
By Kenna, on April 24th, 2010.
Getting to Vietnam was supposed to be easy. And it probably would have gone off without much excitement, except for the news we received upon arriving at the bus station in Phnom Penh….
The Bus Mix-up in Phnom Penh
We decided to exit Cambodia on the Cambodian Buddhist New Year – not the
Continue reading Good Morning, Vietnam!
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