2023 Travelling trip

tammikuuta - toukokuuta 2023

After years of conversations, saving and planning, we set off on our adventure on NYE 2022 and landed in Bangkok ready for 5 and a half months of adventure. Lue lisää

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Seuraa Kalenteri Jaa Toivelista

2023 Travelling trip
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 19.1.2023
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Korkeus: 482 m
- Laos Khouèng Oudômxai Ban Môkphay Phou Namtheung 19.907248, 101.14326619°54’26” N 101°8’36” E
Päivä 19
Slowboat Day 1 - Houay Xai to Pak Beng
19. tammikuuta 2023, Laos ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Today we crossed the border from Thailand into Laos. We had booked the Shompoo Cruise slow boat which took 2 days to get from the Thai/Laos border into Luang Prabang down the Mekong River. The first day involved travelling to a small village called Pak Beng. We were served local Laos food on the boat which was delicious and learnt a lot about the country from our guide, Mr Sen. We visited a village and settled into our lovely hotel for the night. We met an older couple from England who now live in the UK along with another couple who were travelling for their honeymoon and a dutch couple. Overall the first day was really relaxing with some stunning scenery down the river.Lue lisää
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2023 Travelling trip
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 20.1.2023
- 🌙 17 °C
- Korkeus: 975 m
- Laos Luang Prabang Province Ban Navang 19.962285, 101.97988719°57’44” N 101°58’48” E
Päivä 20
Slowboat Day 2 - PB to Luang Prabang
20. tammikuuta 2023, Laos ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
The second day on the slow boat started off freezing! We had basically the same meal for lunch as we'd had at the hotel the night before and it was delicious cooked by the captain's wife. We visited a whiskey village an Tom tasted some and we learnt how they make it. Luang Prabang was lovely as we're the Laos people! We enjoyed beer laos, had lovely coffee, saw a band on at the street Market and met up with friends from the slow boat as well as meeting Rachel and Aron! We found out about the infamous bowling alleys but never experienced one! We had our first swimming experience at Kung Si waterfalls which were beautiful with an underwhelming hike. We saw the bear sanctuary and made 2 new friends, Cilla and Adam.Lue lisää
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2023 Travelling trip
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 23.1.2023
- 🌙 18 °C
- Korkeus: 307 m
- Laos Vientiane Province Ban Phadèng 19.103871, 102.39977419°6’14” N 102°23’59” E
Päivä 23
Vang Vieng
23. tammikuuta 2023, Laos ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
We arrived in Vang Vieng and it was scruffy compared to Luang Prabang. Our room wasn't very clean and the fridge stunk so we hated our first night. The next day we got moved and had a lazy day by the pool. We met up with friends in the evening for sunset and food. The next day was the best day where we went Tubing and made 2 more friends. We went to happy mango for dinner which was delicious and celebrated toms birthday in the Irish bar.Lue lisää
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2023 Travelling trip
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 26.1.2023
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Korkeus: 17 m
- Vietnam Thành Phố Hà Nội Hanoi 21.022185, 105.83788121°1’20” N 105°50’16” E
Päivä 26
Hanoi
26. tammikuuta 2023, Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
From Vang Vieng we decided to get the bus to Vientiane and fly into Hanoi for Tom's birthday. We stayed in a proper hotel with lovely pillows, went for some lovely food, had a day on a bike tour and experienced beer street. I was ready for some much needed peace after 3 days on the streets here!Lue lisää
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- Jaa
- 30.1.2023
- Korkeus: 37 m
- Vietnam Thành Phố Hải Phòng Cát Bà 20.725848, 107.05356420°43’33” N 107°3’13” E
Päivä 30
Cat Ba
30. tammikuuta 2023, Vietnam
We arrived in Cat Ba after travelling on bus, boat and bus again. The journey took about 4 hours and was really easy. When we arrived we had Blackpool vibes and it's clear this is where locals come for their summer holidays. Many hotels and restaurants were closed and it was FREEZING 🥶! I was tempted with the fake North face jackets. Our hostel was fine, nice and big but the bathroom was outside! We were woken early morning with a Cockerell and dog having an argument. We rented a scooter and got some petrol via a water bottle and set off to Cat Ba national park and completed the hike of Dinh Nhu Lam. It was steep climb with some scrambling but we were greeted with some amazing views of the scenery! We then went and had an accidental private sunset tour of Lan Ha Bay which was beautiful and quiet! We saw the floating villages and was amazed at the dogs living on the houses and saw a few treadmills on there! We saw school children in their tracksuit uniforms getting the bus back to their homes. We went back to bigman bar where we met Rachel and Aaron for our last night on Cat Ba Island and their first.Lue lisää
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- Jaa
- 31.1.2023 klo 14.23
- 🌙 16 °C
- Korkeus: 6 m
- Vietnam Thành Phố Hải Phòng Đông An Cat Bi International Airport 20.82295, 106.72517420°49’23” N 106°43’31” E
Päivä 31
Cat Ba to Hoi An
31. tammikuuta 2023, Vietnam ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Our final morning in Cat Ba, we woke up to what sounded like major building work in our hostel, so quickly ventured out for breakfast. This was enjoyed on some more child like seats, but we both had a meal today unlike yesterday! We left Cat Ba Island and were bound for Haiphong Airport; we had booked a flight to Da Nang in order to get to Hoi An in time to meet up with Amy's Uncle Rick and Auntie Pam. The journey to Haiphong was organised by Good Morning Cat Ba was impeccable once again; a short bus ride to the ferry pier, quick speedboat crossing and into a private taxi to the airport. We arrived on schedule and met our pre booked taxi driver who whisked us off to Hoi An.Lue lisää
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2023 Travelling trip
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- Jaa
- 1.2.2023 klo 0.01
- Korkeus: 10 m
- Vietnam Tỉnh Quảng Nam Hội An 15.872687, 108.33564315°52’22” N 108°20’8” E
Päivä 32
Hoi An (First Night)
1. helmikuuta 2023, Vietnam
We arrived at our hotel in Hoi An around 8pm. We were greeted by a very cute, cuddly puppy and a lovely, clean spacious room with a river view! This felt. like luxury after out last stay, and we were both very happy. We took a 15 minute walk into the old town area; we crossed the bridge and saw all the beautiful lanterns across the river. What a lovely welcome to Hoi An. We picked up some grilled pork bread (think pate on baguette over a grill) on the way to meet Uncle Rick and Auntie Pam! We met them for drinks at Tiger Tiger bar before heading back over the river for food. We got the local dish called Quang noodles, which were very reasonably priced at 49000 dong (£1.68!) and were very tasty! Back to our hotel after a fun evening, Oh!...and not a jumper in sight! 🙂Lue lisää
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- 1.2.2023 klo 11.46
- Korkeus: 5 m
- Vietnam Tỉnh Quảng Nam Thanh Đông Sông Dò 15.884152, 108.3587515°53’3” N 108°21’32” E
Päivä 32
Hoi An Day 2 - Cycle to An Bang Beach
1. helmikuuta 2023, Vietnam
Today we rented bicycles from our hotel which had a cute basket on the front, Amy's dream! We set off on our cycle to Cam Thanh Rice Fields and stopped off for a coffee. Amy had a coconut milkshake which was deeeelicious! We continued onto the vegetable village which was full of very neat and pretty allotments! Along the way we saw ducks and water buffalo grazing in the rice fields. We continued our cycle all the way to An Nang Beach to catch up with Uncle Rick and Aunt Pam.Lue lisää
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- 1.2.2023 klo 13.02
- 🌙 22 °C
- Korkeus: 4 m
- Vietnam Tỉnh Quảng Nam Tra Que Vegetable Village Ang Bang Beach 15.916228, 108.3363215°54’58” N 108°20’11” E
Päivä 32
Hoi An Day 2 - An Bang Beach
1. helmikuuta 2023, Vietnam ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
We spent a lovely afternoon on the beach where Tom paid a trip to the sea. Stupidly, we both ended up with burnt backs! 😭 We got talked into buying 2 bracelets for 150 dong! Once we finally located the woman to pay, we set off back to get showered and visit the river. I'd read that the 1st was a special day and the electric lanterns were swapped but disappointingly, it looked no different! We headed back to meet Rick and Pam where aunty Pam was of course already deep in the wine! We went for a great meal called An Bang beach village. We had delicious wontons, home made chilli sauce and this amazing red snapper in turmeric which was huge! The place was ran by the cutest man who had old music which he listened to on the Fisher boat and it was a family run business. Strange part was the toilets with koi fish in which you could feed. I'd say it competed with if not best the happy mango meal!Lue lisää
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- Jaa
- 3.2.2023 klo 10.20
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Korkeus: 6 m
- Vietnam Tỉnh Quảng Nam Hội An 15.872605, 108.33564615°52’21” N 108°20’8” E
Päivä 34
Rainy Day
3. helmikuuta 2023, Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
A day late as yesterdsy was not a good day! Id spent the night once again with stomach cramps and woke with a bad stomach and feeling very weak. Luckily we had no plans and it was raining so Tom cycled into town and got his laptop fixed, hooray! I spent the dsy in bed until about 6pm when we went out to get our best banh mis yet! It was an early night and we finally got to get netflix working. Let's hope for a better day today.Lue lisää
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