Luang prabang — The worst thing that could happen when you got to leave your hostel dormitory at 5 am to get your train ride are people who got to leave the same hostel dormitory at 3.30 am to get whatever they need ...
Luang prabang — There is a trinity of travel modes. You might think of these 3 styles as 3 corners of a triangle. Rest. Do. Change. One corner is Vacation. In this mode, you are trying to optimize rest. You seek out...
Luang prabang — The rows of tropical fruit were six-deep. Some fruit were so familiar I knew them primarily by their Tagalog names, which is how I learned them in school. Here were atis, earthy green, evenly lumped,...
I reached Luang Prabang after a reader to my travel blog provoke to go and see Luang Prabang 10 years ago. I did not know where it was then....
Always look up. (Ongoing series.)
The soup is a morning prayer.
Select the three modes of travel: Rest, Do, Change
The Backpacker Hostel Dormitory Nightly Ritual
I turned the corner and there it was: the morning market. Goods from the hills, fields and Mekong popped onto the street, a surprising abundance.