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- 10 apr 2023, 15:35
- ☁️ 31 °C
- Altitudine: 17 m
- Tailandia Changwat Krabi Railay Beach 8.012072, 98.8379438°0’43” N 98°50’17” E
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Climbing in Rai Leh , Krabi
10 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Took a boat out to Railay beach to climb. We climbed 4 routes and one of these was the longest route I have ever climbed! The temperature was hot (as per normal) and the tide came in. Both of us had never sweated so much in our lives but it was such an amazing experience!

My arms are jelly right now as we bus to Surat Thani to catch our ferry to Koh Tao.Leggi altro
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- 10 apr 2023, 19:50
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitudine: 34 m
- Tailandia Changwat Surat Thani Ban Bang Boet Lang Khlong Krut 9.143914, 99.3228839°8’38” N 99°19’22” E
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Surat thani - Thai experience next level
10 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
We arrived after a 3 hr minibus ride from Ao Nang with Phantrip. A short walk brought us to the night ferry pier where we were due to catch our boat at 10pm.

We had dinner at a few street vendors before going to check into our boat…
Wow. An old wooden boat being loaded with supplies with loads of mattresses lining the floor. That’s a Thai sleeper boat for ya!

We checked in and went for dessert at a popular street vendor. Unsure of how to order, we asked a girl standing next to us. She not only showed us what to do but also spoke no English and communicated with us via Google translate. She (was getting dessert take away) helped us understand the menu and recommended two items to us off the menu which were delicious. The street vendor also gave us free ice cream!

Now, we’re packed like sardines on this boat on route to Koh Tao and I’m sweating buckets. Here’s to our next few hours of sleep on board!Leggi altro
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- 11 apr 2023, 13:41
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Altitudine: 22 m
- Tailandia Changwat Surat Thani Ban Hat Sai Ri Ao Hat Sai Ri 10.095464, 99.82795710°5’44” N 99°49’41” E
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Koh Tao diving!!
11 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Finally! This was a biggie on our trip! Getting our PADI open water diving certification.

We arrived in the early hours of yesterday morning via the overnight boat and spent the day today in the swimming pool learning basics of our scuba equipment.

Tomorrow will be our first open water dive at two locations - Mango bay and The Twins. It’s great to feel so much more comfortable with our equipment and being under water!!

Also, koh Tao had some pretty cool signage going on 😂Leggi altro
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- 13 apr 2023, 11:51
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitudine: 8 m
- Tailandia Changwat Surat Thani Ban Mae Hat Ao Mae Hat 10.084178, 99.82451610°5’3” N 99°49’28” E
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Officially certified divers 🐠 👌🏽
13 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
We spent the last 3 days getting our PADI Open Water certification with @Black Turtle Dive.

It’s official, we can now dive to 18m and rent scuba gear!! Woohoo 🙌🏽

Our confined water skills took place on day 1 which was a full day in a deep hotel pool. Learnt how to assemble our gear, breathe underwater and we had my most dreaded part of the course - the swimming and water treading tests.

Day 2 - dived in Mango bay and Twins. Both off the coast of Koh Tao. Visibility was beautiful and the water was perfect! Today was also Songkran (Thai new year) and everyone had water guns or buckets of water in the street. It’s a water festival so we were saturated to and from the dive store that day!

Day 3 - dived at the Japanese Gardens and Junkyard, also off the coast of Koh Tao. Super nice day! Saw pufferfish and used our confined skills in the open water.Leggi altro
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- 15 apr 2023, 15:34
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitudine: 4 m
- Tailandia Changwat Surat Thani Ban Mae Hat Ao Tanot 10.084356, 99.84783910°5’4” N 99°50’52” E
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Motorbike trip to Tanote Bay
15 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
We hired a motorbike! First time riding a bike and it was an adventure alright!!

Hired from @DJsMotorbikeRentals Koh Tao for 300 baht for the day. His lower powered bikes were all out so we landed with a midrange. Props to Matt-o for driving for the first time after a 10 minute crash course with the dude from the store.

Made it to Tanote Bay with no issues even though the road was STEEP and windy. The way up was… adventurous! Comical incident where both of us toppled over the bike leaving the bay and heading up the first hill. Not so funny at the time but in hindsight, it was hilarious! I managed to somehow get off the bike first while Matt was half on and suddenly gave it a little too much juice as it slid out from under him!

Tanote bay was beautiful. The fish and coral were incredible and the clarity of the water was a thing of postcards. We had so much fun snorkelling and seeing HUNDREDS of fish. Matt spotted an octopus as well. There was a large jumping rock from which people were rope climbing to the top. That’s a ‘No thank you’ from me.

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- 16 apr 2023, 17:14
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitudine: 4 m
- Tailandia Changwat Surat Thani Ban Mae Hat Ao Mae Hat 10.084161, 99.82350210°5’3” N 99°49’25” E
Giorno 13
Bye Koh Tao
16 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Bittersweet farewell to such a cool island where we had so much fun!

The sunset on the Lomprayah catamaran was a nice send off!
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- 17 apr 2023, 20:09
- 🌙 32 °C
- Altitudine: 9 m
- Tailandia Changwat Nonthaburi Mueang Nonthaburi Khlong Chomphu Wek 13.887455, 100.51126113°53’15” N 100°30’41” E
Giorno 14
Quick stop in Bangkok
17 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ 🌙 32 °C
4am arrival by bus and a 4.30am departure the following day.
Down to our last 30 baht!
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- 18 apr 2023, 05:07
- ⛅ 28 °C
- Altitudine: 8 m
- Tailandia Bangkok Don Mueang Don Mueang International Airport 13.921628, 100.60403413°55’18” N 100°36’15” E
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Gooooood morning Vietnam 🇻🇳
18 aprile 2023, Tailandia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Yay for tolerable temperatures!

Made it to Hanoi after an early morning flight out from Bangkok and Matt’s funny tummy before our hour long bus ride! Turns out the spicy Tom Yum the night before was equally spicy the next day… A short lived problem though since we wasted no time eating through the Old Quarter in Hanoi for the rest of the day - pho, banh mi, Vietnamese coffee..

Our hotel @AmbassadorHanoi was in a great location with so so so many coffee shops around and street vendors.

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- 19 apr 2023, 11:22
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Altitudine: 20 m
- Vietnam Ba Dinh 21.037683, 105.8233221°2’16” N 105°49’24” E
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Cooking class and city exploring
19 aprile 2023, Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
We attended a cooking class today with @RoseKitchen and it was such a cool experience. They picked us up from the hotel and took us to a local market to obtain the ingredients before bringing us to the venue. We cooked 4 dishes - banana flower salad, spring rolls, beef pho and Vietnamese egg coffee.

We went for a wander around the city and Matt was fitted for a tailor made suit! After this we visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum where his body remains on guard 24/7 (“visited” but really just walked around because no shorts allowed .. 🤷🏻‍♀️). We went to see a Pagoda, watched kids zooming around on tricycle things on the footpath and then had the most underwhelming dinner since the start of our trip (ordered chicken but got served pigeon 🤦🏻‍♀️)Leggi altro
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- 21 apr 2023, 08:47
- ☁️ 27 °C
- Altitudine: 107 m
- Vietnam Tỉnh Hà Giang Thành Phố Hà Giang 22.819242, 104.97915522°49’9” N 104°58’45” E
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Ha Giang Loop - Day 1
21 aprile 2023, Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Completed our first of 4 days today!

Started in Ha Giang and stopped in Heavens Gate, Lung Khuy cave, Yuong Castle of the H’mong people and ending in Dong Van for the night.

The smoke from the fire season was not ideal for visibility but the mountains still looked spectacular behind the rows and rows of rice terraces in the valley. We did not regret our decision to opt for a guide and EasyRider because those roads are pretty windy and often potholed. Not unusual for the corners to be completely blind and to see a bike, car, suv or even truck coming at you as you round the bend!

Highlight of the day was Matt getting a celebrity treatment by the school kids on a field trip to the Lung Khuy cave. The “oo’s”, “ahh’s”, “omg!” and unsubtle photos the kids were taking (or asked to take) were hilarious! I suppose they’re really not used to white skinned giants roaming amongst them.

After dinner, our guide asked if we wanted to go to a bar and to karaoke. Little did we know he was just following the laid out itinerary to a tee and we thought he actually wanted to go so we said okay. Long story short, we ended up in a basement bar, a beer and vodka-coke on the table, music pumping, two of us as the only patrons and a bedazzled microphone sitting in front of us and our guide who ditched! Fun!
We downed our drink and went for a massage instead..Leggi altro
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