Growth, ponderings and adventures
Day 16: Back to Vientiane I woke up early enough to have the time to go visit the famous lagoons around Vang Vieng before my check-out time. I rented a bike and headed to Blue Lagoon 1, which is probably not the most impressive one, but it is the closest one at around 5,5km from [...]
Day 11: The mice of Kuang Si Falls If the night buses in Thailand surprised me in a super positive way because they were comfortable, the AC was on point, we were given snacks and blankets and pillows, this night bus that I took from Vientiane to Luang Prabang was from a completely different world. [...]
If you haven't read the first part of my trip, you can find it here! Day 6: Elephant sanctuary On Saturday, I had booked a visit to an elephant sanctuary. There are a ton of those around Chiang Mai, and it is a whole business. I won't linger too long on this as I wrote [...]
18.3.19, 1am. Day 1: The departure. A new kind of adventure starts. I'm on the plane, ready to take off from the slushy Helsinki airport for 7 weeks of solo travel in Southeast Asia. I've traveled quite a lot and backpacked in Southeast Asia before as well, but this trip is different from anything I've [...]
Do you know the feeling when you leave your routine behind and arrive to a new destination, when it feels like you have left a part of yourself behind and are ready to put on another you? That's a huge part of the magic of traveling for me. It allows me to be whoever I [...]
Last winter, I backpacked around Asia with a friend for a month, and it was the most eye-opening trip of my life. We had a wonderful even if not completely trouble-free time, and I love and cherish every memory from it. In one month, we had time to visit Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand. [...]
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