The White Temple (Wat Tong Khun) Chiang Rai is popular in the backpacking world for being the home of the White Temple. The White Temple (or Wat Rong Khun) was created by the artist Chalermchai Kositpipat and opened to the public in 1997. The temple grounds are in constant construction and the whole area will finish in 2070. Videos of the artist himself make him…
Chiang Mai is not only the biggest city in Northern Thailand, it is also a university town and a cultural hub. There are some tourists here, however most of the people we saw seemed to be locals. The city is still inside the old city gates and is a maze of restaurants, massage parlors, coffee shops, temples and parks. At night the streets close down…
The best thing a human can do while traveling is eat. So much of a country’s culture and history is literally cooked into their food. There are many ways to eat in Thailand, from night markets to street food to fancy restaurants. Thanks to the affordable exchange rate, even a backpacker can try them all! Eating out Food in the North Jordan and I spent…
Aonang is a seemingly random town on the hidden coasts of Krabi. When Nushaw, Amber and I first landed in Thailand, we took a ferry from Phuket to the Krabi Coast. The ferry took us to smaller and smaller boats until we got to our little hideaway camp in Tonsai. When we left Tonsai beach, we had to take a long boat around the corner…
Koh Samui is the biggest of the three islands off Thailand’s coast of Surat Thani. Nushaw, Amber and I took a long sketchy bus from the Krabi coast to the port town in Surat Thani where we caught a ferry to Koh Samui. (When we left Thailand, in order to catch our flight in Phuket we had to take a plane from Koh Samui’s airport.…
Koh Tao is most known around the world for its excellent dive schools. Nushaw and I went to Koh Tao for some chillaxing on a small Thai island. We found a nice resort up the road from the main street that overlooked the ocean on a maze of hills and huts. The walk into town was 20-30 minutes. In town we participated in the Koh…
Coral Beach is my favorite day hike in Airlie. It is a ten minute drive from town and a fifteen minute walk through the bush to get to get to paradise. The beach is covered in meters of coral, not sand. The trail is not marked well, so visiting humans have tied bits of coral in the cabbage tree branches to mark the way. You…
The best thing we did in Argentina is our Work Away experience. Argentina and Chile in particular are very expensive countries to stay in hostels. Especially compared to the cost of hostels or even hotels in South East Asia. To save some money, Jordan and I looked into Work Away. And boy did we luck out with our experience. We had heard some terrible stories…
Jordan and I chose to go to Chile after Argentina because the cheapest flight home was from Santiago. If we went out of of Brazil or Bolivia we would have to pay massive visa fees that Jordan and I were not willing to pay. So instead we took the bus across the Andes Mountains from Mendoza to Santiago. From Santiago we went straight to Valpo,…
