Walk through the streets of Luang Prabang and you will hear "tuk-tuk waterfall" about 100 times before reaching your destination. Well, we wanted to see the waterfall, but not by tuk-tuk. So, we rented some bikes (some poorly made Chinese beach cruisers with no gears) and set off for a 35km Tour-de-France loop up into the mountains towards Kuang Si waterfall. Our book described the ride as "gently undulating through rice paddies." Well, it was more like "straight uphill through limestone peaks" with a few downhills that seriously tested our poor bikes braking capacities. The ride was beauti [View Full Entry]

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Sabaidee! (That's "hello" in Lao). So, we've had our first crazy adventure of the trip, but I think we'll save it for the end of the blog so we can tell it in some detail (and those of you who've already had enough wont miss out on reading everything else we've done in the past few days because you're already bored.) Our last blog left on in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand. We ended up extending our stay one more day to see elephants...and it was a great decision. We had opted out of the normal "trekking" scene of Chiang Mai [View Full Entry]

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We finished up Bangkok with a visit to some of the "must sees": Chatuchak weekend market (which had everything and everything you could ever imagine), the Wat of the Emerald Buddha and the Grand Palace, Pat Pong road, and some river cruising. Sunday night we left on our first overnight train ride (14 hours) to the north of Thailand, Chiang Mai. We got two beds in a sleeper car, and a very bumpy noisy night's sleep. The views were incredible and our neighbor was a Preston Burke, from Grey's Anatomy, look alike. Chiang Mai is a much quainter town than Bangkok, [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone! We've arrived, are safe and are having a blast so far!!! Our flights were fantastic (thanks Laura and Carole!)-we got to sit business class on our first flight (which according to Matt was like being Thai royalty!). We stayed at Peter's condo the first two nights which was very convenient and helped us to adjust quickly as well as get a taste for the real Bangkok (before heading over to the tourist mecca of Khao San Road (KSR)-which is like being back in South Beach, times ten). We've already mastered the public transit system of Bangkok: we've taken the [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! We thought we'd post an entry before we leave to make sure everyone can find it and can follow us along on our journey! We leave in just under a week to spend three to six months travelling through SE Asia. We have no set plans, except that we are flying into Bangkok, Thailand. We hope to see Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phillipines (and maybe more if we have time and money!). We'll try to post a blog every week or two with pictures so we can keep in touch with everyone and let you [View Full Entry]

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