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Asia Food Travel Vietnam

Vietnam – Eating our way up the country

By Mark on Thursday, May 17, 2018

Like I said in the Saigon Street Food Tour post,  Vietnam was the country with the food I was most excited about. We cook and eat a lot of Asian food when we’re at home but Vietnamese is one cuisine we rarely sampled for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we’d never been. Secondly, there’s no …

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3 Day Jungle Trek in Sumatra

By Mark on Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Nose picking baby orangutan

Even though it’s only 110km from Kuala Namu airport to Bukit Lawang the estimated journey time is around 4 hours. Throw in a torrential rain storm and this increases to 5 and a half hours. We were pretty glad we’d booked the airport taxi pick up through our accommodation now so could experience a final …

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Ha Long Bay

By Mark on Saturday, April 14, 2018
Ti Top Island - Ha Long Bay

Ha Long Bay was one of the areas I’d done the most research on before we left the UK. We knew what we wanted; to visit Cat Ba Island, Lan Ha Bay and to do some kayaking. We also knew what we didn’t want; a party boat full of fluorescent full moon party vest wearing …

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3 days and 2 nights trekking in Sapa

By Mark on Thursday, April 5, 2018
Giang, myself and Katy in Sapa

Day 1 It’s early, misty and damp. We’re in Lao Cai, about 3 miles from the Chinese border. I woke up about 20 minutes ago as the 10pm sleeper from Hanoi pulled into the station. I’ve had maybe 2 hours sleep and regret getting excited at the prospect of train travel and paying £100 of …

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Saigon street-food. The XO ‘Foodie’ Tour

By Mark on Tuesday, March 27, 2018

In the run up to our “big trip” Katy and I would have discussions about what aspects of what country we were most looking forward to. Every time Vietnam was mentioned so was food… The climate, terrain, number of different countries who’ve invaded or traded with Vietnam have all influenced the cuisine you’ll find there …

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Lantern making in Hoi An

By Mark on Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Like I said in the in the Hoi An overview, if you’re anything like me you’d have seen the lanterns all over the old town and said to yourself “that’ll look great in my… (insert appropriate part of house/garden here)”. So, you’ve checked on Amazon and aren’t prepared to pay the £30 it will cost …

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Senmonorom Trekking, Camping and Elephants…

By Mark on Saturday, March 10, 2018
Jungle rope swing

So… we arrived at Avocado Guesthouse relieved that we’d survived the journey but also eager to go and book some trekking. Whilst in Siem Reap we’d been messaging Sam Veasna regarding their gibbon experience. The emails were a bit erratic, so we decided we’d just speak to them via their representative at the Hefalump Café …

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Luang Namtha – Trekking with The Hiker

By Mark on Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Surprised and maybe a little relieved at how straightforward the journey from Chiang Rai to Luang Namtha had been, we spent some of the afternoon we arrived speaking to a few agencies about the various treks and what was involved. The rest after the afternoon was spent with cold Beer Lao’s, warm flat breads, hummus, …

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Kalaw to Inle Lake Trekking

By Mark on Wednesday, January 24, 2018

We’d decided to take the day time JJ Express from Bagan to Kalaw and had requested the front seats. Katy full of enthusiasm and Dramamine and me, full of Immodium and hope! We arrived unscathed, checked in to the hotel then headed into town to book our trek. We’d done some initial research and had …

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