Category: Thailand

Our first night in Chiang Mai, we had a hotel reservation through Agoda as usual, but we’d been hearing travelers all along our journey tell us that they’d found better deals by walking through the backpacker districts and checking out hotels in person.  Since we were spending more time in Chiang Mai than anywhere else…

After traveling according to bus and train and plane schedules, we were excited to arrive in Northern Thailand where we rented a car for our road trip around the Mae Hong Song loop (Thanks Brad and Xiao Ling!).  This 4 day loop out of Chiang Mai and up toward the border with Myanmar (Burma) takes…

We took the speedboat to Railay Beach, which takes about 2 hours.  When you get there you have to transfer mid-water onto a smaller longboat which can get you close enough to shore that you can hop off and wade to the beach.  There didn’t appear to be any dry way of getting to land…

There are a number of islands off the West coast of southern Thailand.  All have access to countless incredible dive sites.  Koh Phi Phi is the most well known and popular with the young party crowd while Koh Lanta is a little more off the beaten track so more popular with families and old fogies…

We left Georgetown and the island of Penang on a crammed minivan that we assumed was taking us across to the mainland where we would catch our bus.  It turns out, this crammed minivan WAS our bus.  The next 11 hours cuddled up with strangers – unable to put our feet down naturally since the…