If I had been planning this part of the trip by myself I probably wouldn’t have gone to Salzburg. It’s not a typical backpacker destination (probably because it’s expensive). Other than vague ideas about Mozart and the Sound of Music I didn’t know what it would have to offer. However, Dan found out that the world’s largest ice cave is near Salzburg and couldn’t wait to see it. Sam and Spencer were easily convinced and I was happy to come…
Chiang Dao Dan and I arrived in Chiang Mai about a week before our friends were scheduled to meet us. That amount of time, combined with the three days we would overlap with them there, seemed like a little long to spend in a city we’d already been to. We did some research and decided that the nearby mountain getaway of Chiang Dao would be a good break from the city for a couple of days. We hopped on the…
Kampot is a sleepy little town on the Preaek Tuek Chhu River, near Cambodia’s southern coast. As soon as we pulled in to town I knew that I was going to like Kampot. With it’s wide promenade along the river, brightly colored shop house architecture and cute little cafes and restaurants sprinkled throughout, it is just the type of place Dan and I gravitate towards. We had been moving around every few days while Megan and Varshan were traveling with…
Two weeks ago Dan and I embarked on the most challenging and rewarding adventure of our trip thus far: cave trekking in Phong Nha National Park. Right around when we started doing research for our trip to Vietnam a girl I knew in college posted on Facebook that she was heading to Southeast Asia and asked the social media universe for advice on what to do when she got there. One of her friends commented on her post recommending an…