A walk in the jungle, a ride in the mountains — all part of days journey with easy rider tour, day 3. Check out our guide Hai (oh, hi!), fancy big bikes, and Sergey’s driving skills 🙂
Drinking a Bia Hoi (20 cent draft beer, which is absolutely delicious) in Hanoi — this should be a #1 activity on your list. Even if you don’t do beer. We’ve gone a couple of times, and its always a colorful experience. As long as you aren’t in a big crowd, plenty of locals will…
Once upon a time – many, many centuries ago – there was a land known as Hills of Paradise. It was perched high in the mountaintops of what is modern-day Xieng Khuang province of Laos. Towering pine trees dominated the rolling hills, rivers and waterfalls irrigated and nourished the bountiful land, flowers bloomed year round…
Sergey and I were sitting on the dock, enjoying a nondescript Southeast Asian beer – probably a Cambodian one, since local brands tend to be cheaper. The lakeshore guesthouse camps in Kampot, Cambodia are a backpacker mecca; travelers come down to relax, party, and swap stories. A fellow backpacker put down a Beer Lao next to…
We made it to the Tibetan village of Tagong, high up in the mountains, where we visited a monastery after a lengthy hike fighting altitude weakness.
Sagalassos was amazing – a remote archeological site not accessed by any convenient forms of public transport (or tour buses!) is stunning. There are hardly any visitors, so we had the ancient “first city of Pisidia” (aka regional Roman capital) almost entirely to ourselves. Along with the restored fountain the massive site contains temples, theater,…
A motorcycle our of the southern Thai city – Trang.