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At first Cambodia appeared to be just another country in southeast Asia and since we’d spent so much time here, our expectations weren’t high. We’d of course be seeing the famous temples of Angkor, including the namesake Angkor Wat, but that would all happen on our last stop in the country. We still had a few cities to see first. The temples are what this country is on the map for. What other secrets would lie in wait for us? Well, the first thing we would discover is that you cannot pull $86,000 U.S. out of the ATM’s here.
And now a video from a helicopter ride over a glacier in New Zealand
Hallo there! Here is a video Mandy knocked together of the helicopter ride we took over the famous Franz Joseph Glacier in New Zealand! We have another post coming up soon about our time in Cambodia, so stay tuned!
The River People
The leisurely pace at which the boat strolled down the Mekong would have put us to sleep if it weren’t for the intense heat of the jungle surrounding us. Two 9 hour days of travel allowed Mandy to read an entire book. I couldn’t keep my eyes off the shoreline because I had never seen anything like it. The river looked like something out of Charlie’s chocolate factory.
Thailand Part 5
Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, our last two stops in Thailand, were some of our favorite time spent in the country. The taxi dropped us off at our hotel just outside the city center of Chiang Mai. I said hello in Thai to the lady working the front desk, who looked at me strangely and said, “Oh no, no no. You say like lady boy.” There are two different ways to say hello in Thai, one for a woman and one for a man and I had apparently spent almost two months in Thailand walking around saying hello to everyone like a girl. Awesome.
Thailand Part 2
It was raining buckets when we left Phuket. Our hotel took us down to the bottom of the hill because the minibus we had booked couldn’t make it up the hill. We felt like we were back in Central America. The bus went around picking up people from all over the city before finally departing, packed to the gills. A few locals got dropped off along the way so we got some breathing room before finally arriving in Don Sak to take the ferry out to our next island adventure. Unfortunately, this would be one of the the absolute worst experiences of our entire trip, and hopefully we never have to go through something like this ever again. A word of warning though…If you’re eating lunch or something, don’t click the jump ahead button…
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