This is your how to guide to negotiating your way through India. Negotiating in India, whether it be for tuk tuk rides or bananas on the street, is an interesting experience all on its own. OK, I’m not claiming I’m an expert or anything, I’m pretty sure I’ve been ripped off plenty in India. After… Read more…
Potatoes and onions and spices, oh my. First meal in New Delhi! New Delhi, India I know it’s not a great picture. I was too eager to dig in with my bare right hand to really care. We were told one of the first thing we should try when we land in India is a… Read more…
This is your rough how-to guide for traveling through India by train. Traveling India by train can be intimidating. But after our first train ride out of New Delhi to Jaisalmer, it didn’t take us long to learn the ropes. To my surprise, traveling India by train is actually quite easy. We spent three weeks… Read more…
Water buckets, ice and super soakers.. sawasdee pi mai from Chiang Mai. As far as festivals go, we’ve only attended one this year to compare, but I dare say Songkran in Thailand would rank as one of the best in the world. The Songkran festival is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year’s day… Read more…
We came to Singapore for one main reason – to eat hawker! After the amount of money we were spending on food in New Zealand and Australia, we were beyond thrilled to be heading to Singapore, literally our gateway country to our Asia jaunt. They say Singapore is expensive but we found it to be… Read more…
Festival of colors. And yes, they grabbed my boob. Welcome to India! Remember the TV show Outsourced? Best show ever! It was the first time we ever heard about Holi. Needless to say it quickly made its way to our bucket list. So we came to India with that goal in mind – to celebrate… Read more…
Hostelbookers started a tag game in the travel blogging community — 7 Super Shots, encouraging people to share their favorite travel photos in seven categories. Carlo & Geneva from Travel Budget Couple nominated us to pick our 7 super shots of travel photography. We figured it would be a good opportunity for us to share recent pictures… Read more…
We are trippin’ through the ancient capital of Siam, Ayutthaya in photos. Kieu & I decided to take a break from Bangkok and explore the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Siam, Ayutthaya. What was once the biggest city in the world in 1700, was destroyed and burnt to the ground by the Burmese later that… Read more…
An 80- minute “journey” is 80 minutes too long! Do not be fooled by the billboards and cab drivers telling you otherwise. This is probably the worst show on Earth. So I shouldn’t be surprise when going through my memory card that I came out with a whopping 1 photo of momentum of a night… Read more…
2011: Thankful Gerard got to meet his Grandma in this lifetime. RIP. We love the food, we adore our culture, but ultimately, this trip is significant because it’s G’s first time here. Ever. You could say it’s an important one, a pilgrimage so to speak. G’s never met his Ba Ngoai (Grandma on his mom’s… Read more…
