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Vietnam

Danang Downtown and Cosplay Competition (Vietnam Diary #6)

I headed to Danang Downtown as there was some kind of costume festival on the Tet calendar. I just had no idea what time or type. Turns out it was a sort of cosplay competition! These youths must have spent the entire day prepping and some of the outfits were amazing!

Thailand

Trang Tales of the Unexpected

I had been on a diet of bananas, rice crackers, fat free yogurt, electrolytes, activated charcoal, bland rice dishes and Smecta for five days. I don’t think I need to explain why. A Night Market was close by, so one evening I did a quick walk through it to see

Thailand

Koh Koh Kabana: Koh Phayam

I missed the last ferry to Koh Phayam. If it wasn’t for heavy rains, roadworks, and a military police-stop which checked the IDs of every single passenger on board a big bus, I would have made it. I was in the province of Ranong 10 hours later and quickly booked

Thailand

Koh Lanta: Can All Chickens Turn Into Pigs?

My week in the little town of Trang was coming to an end, so I boarded my bike which I realised had 345,000+ Kms on the clock. I wanted to record how many more I would do, until realising that the mileage gauge wasn’t even working! I rode all the

Indonesia

Happy Lombokians (Indonesia Travel Diary #5)

Travel has taught me that I am 100% a beach person. I felt so much happier after a day trip to one of the Gili Islands. I think I might relocate there this weekend. To be able to start each day with an ocean swim and snorkel, is just bliss.

Vietnam

IENNN, IENNN, IENN! (Vietnam Travel Diary #11)

For expats living in the sleepy beach town of Hoi An, lockdown was a blessing in disguise. Those that were stranded against their will, formed the most amazing and tight-knit community with those already living there. There were no tourists, places were still open, and they had one, big, fat,

Vietnam

Can Tho: The Land of Plenty (Vietnam Diary #16)

A good 20% of the Vietnamese population live at the tip of the country in and around a network of rivers known as the Mekong Delta. Extremely fertile, the land has been intensively developed for agriculture, yields 24.8 million metric tons of rice annually, and is able to feed 300