From Bangkok back home

The Week of the 'Temples'

Si Satchanalai, Sukothai, and now Ayutthaya. 3 historical sites with very old temples or their remnants. We are surprised at how calm and peaceful it is, given the amount of...

New Zealand

Along the Mekong and through the mountains.

The route along the Mekong is beautiful and varied. It has become very hot now... we started in Vietnam with temperatures around 18-20 degrees Celsius, and now it is about 35...

Off to Thailand

We had imagined the border crossing to Thailand to be quite simple.... no visa lines, just a stamp in the passport - done. But unfortunately, no. The signage was confusing, and...

Radler in the Fog

Yesterday we crossed the border to Laos. The higher we climbed, the more background noise and humidity there was. Once we reached the top, we could hardly see the border... We...

Hanoi and Ninh Binh