I get a lot of questions about how much it costs to travel in Southeast Asia. I’ve written about how much I spent in two months in Southeast Asia, but because I get so many country-specific searches and questions from people working on a travel budget, I thought it would be helpful to give a […]
Traveling is a wonderful thing. I love experiencing new cultures, tasting new food, and taking a gazillion photos. But traveling also means staying in places where the quality of the bed you’re sleeping on can vary greatly. Since the main reason for booking a room is so you have a place to sleep at night, […]
When traveling to foreign countries, I think most people expecting things to be different than they are at home. We expect to see things and experience things that might be a little strange or surprising. This can be true just traveling to different parts of your own country. Well, I definitely saw some odd things […]
Looking for a more up-to-date budget for Southeast Asia? Check out this post here to see what my husband and I spent traveling in Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia for about two months in early 2014. Usually when people hear I’m traveling around the world for five months, they assume it’s expensive and I must […]
I spent about two months in Southeast Asia, and I tried to photograph my food. But I often forgot. My friend Val is great at taking pictures of everything she eats and drinks, but I think I got a good overview of what I ate during my time in Southeast Asia. Some of these pictures […]
Once we were finally free of the Bromo Volcano tour, Amanda and I got in a mini van to Yogyakarta in order to see the temple of Borobudur. We were told the driver would stop in two hours for lunch, so that should have been 1:30PM. At 3:30PM, Amanda leaned over and asked me, “Did […]
Amanda and I didn’t plan much for our time on Java besides Borobudur, so we needed something to do to break up the distance between Bali and Borobudur. We did some research and decided Bromo Volcano sounded interesting, and so began our crazy transportation day from Bali to Java.
The day started off easily enough. We got up around 6:30AM, showered, finished getting our bags packed, ate breakfast, checked out of our hotel in Seminyak, and then hailed a cab. We told the cab driver we needed to get to the Ubung bus station. We repeated it a few times, he repeated it back […]
Amanda and I knew we needed to get to the island of Java to see Borobudur, which meant traveling back through Bali after leaving the Gili Islands. We took a speed boat this time instead of the slow boat because we found a good deal that also included our transfer from the port in Bali […]
The guy who brought us to the horrible room in Senggigi also knew a guy who worked at a dive shop down the street. I tried to get my scuba diving certification last year but didn’t succeed, although I do enjoy snorkeling and Amanda dives, so we set up a dive/snorkel trip for the next […]