by Calvin Sun | Jun 13, 2010 | Fail, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Vietnam
Instead of the expected 32 hours, we spent exactly 50.5 hours on 3 sleeper buses, stopping for at most 4 hours for a break. The bright side is that the vista outside our windows was gorgeous…for about maybe 6 hours out of the trip. Pictures of our ordeal to come...
by Annah Kim | Jun 11, 2010 | Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Vietnam
Hopefully you’ve read my previous posts without video – so I’m going to limit this post to mostly just videos and not much text commentaries. Streets of Hanoi: Women Are Better at Navigation: Crossing the Streets of Vietnam:...
by Annah Kim | Jun 11, 2010 | Fail, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Vietnam
So – change in plans. The bus to Hoi An has broken down and so we are delayed a day in our trip. So I am now sitting in an internet cafe – slowly but surely (hopefully) uploading my videos and sitting next to a jolly Vietnamese boy who is singing...
by Calvin Sun | Jun 8, 2010 | Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Vietnam
Updated our Friends page! About to board an 8am bus to Ha Long Bay. We’ll be staying overnight at a junk in the bay (so don’t expect to hear from us for a bit); I’m looking forward to waking up to a sunrise over the sea, eating rice like a good...
by Annah Kim | Jun 7, 2010 | Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Philippines, Vietnam
So my traveler’s checks have officially been redeemed. At the airport terminal, we discovered that we had to pay a departure tax in cash, which Corinne and I did no have. There were no ATM’s, just a bank where one could exchange money and traveler’s...
by Annah Kim | Jun 6, 2010 | Fail, How Did You Do That?, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Philippines
1. Taking Care of Calvin: He discovered this morning that he indeed left his rain jacket on the Autobus last night (or this morning rather) that we took back from Banaue. Coupled with the loss of his point and shoot, we concluded that when Calvin is sleepy, he leaves...
by Calvin Sun | Jun 6, 2010 | How Did You Do That?, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Philippines
Climbed up a volcano? Check. Climbed up an active volcano? Check. Been to the world’s only island within a lake, within an island, within a lake within another island within a country of islands? Check. Compared to Batad, this is a relatively easy trek....
by Calvin Sun | Jun 5, 2010 | How Did You Do That?, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Philippines
So Batad was quite an experience. It took us awhile to get there, but it was well worth all the sweat and twisted ankles. So it goes from Banaue – Private Jeepney to the saddle (around 2500-3000 pesos including return trip) – Hike from the saddle to Batad....
by Calvin Sun | Jun 2, 2010 | Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Philippines
ENTRY UPDATED: Pictures now link to full size….So today after 12.26 (we got a pedometer!) miles of walking, we managed to hit up: Rizal Park, the Site of Rizal’s execution, Intramuros, Casa Manila, San Augustin Church, Fort Santiago, Rizal Shrine, Manila...
by Calvin Sun | Jun 1, 2010 | Fail, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Philippines, Uncategorized Stories
Annah just got her Blackberry stolen while she was exchanging traveler’s cheques. The worst part is that she was using her phone only 3 minutes before she got pickpocketed. Despite 10 minutes backtracking our steps and searching for her phone in a random...
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