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Thailand: Travel Costs & Highlights

The final wrap up from our time in the land of smiles! After 3-months of travel, we finally made it to our first SE Asia country and it was about time. We were growing tired of living on a backpacker’s budget. It was time to splurge a little for luxury in the land of smiles… Read more…

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Where To Stay: Thailand

List of places we’ve stayed in Thailand. Pros and con and more. We decided to start a new series on all the places we’ve stayed and whether we’d recommend it.. starting with Thailand. We used Agoda.com for hotel search and booking. Also, keep in mind we tend to live on a flashpacker’s budget. Meaning there… Read more…

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Full Moon Party in Thailand

It’s like a rave. Or an LMFAO music video gone horribly wrong. I thought it was about time I wrote this post. Same time last year, we were island hopping in the south of Thailand. We attended the Full Moon Party first before making our way up to Chiang Mai to participate in the Songkran Festival,… Read more…

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Thai Cooking School in Chiang Mai

The best Thai food from our trip. And we cooked it ourselves! We decided to check off one of my long awaited bucket list wish and, at the same time, tackle one of Gerard’s life’s greatest challenges – cooking. It’s not that he can’t cook. He just hasn’t found his calling until now. So we… Read more…

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A Wet & Wild Songkran in Chiang Mai

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…

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Ancient Ayutthaya in Photos

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…

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