Author: Mrs Wander
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Trekking to the Top of the World in Nepal
Well, top-adjacent. We spent a few weeks trekking in the Everest region of the Himalayas among the tallest mountains in the world. Instead of the usual trek out and back just to Everest Base Camp (EBC), we did the Three Passes Trek. We still went to the EBC, but then we were able to see…
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Beautiful Mahals of India’s Golden Triangle
While the goal of India was to slow down and relax a bit so we’d be ready to take on our Nepal adventure, a little cold decided to take hold. I think it had started affecting me the last day or so in Pune, manifesting in a bit of anxiety. It’s not easy to relax…
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Attempting to Recuperate in Chaotic India
Our intention with this year of travel was to try out “slow travel”, the idea that you spend more time in a country to feel more immersed and you actually transition into “living” there rather than “travelling”. Safe to say we had not yet done that to this point, but had already needed a few…
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The Suite Life of Korea and Singapore
I know, it’s been awhile. If you remember it was at the beginning of March that we finished our tour of Japan. We ended in Osaka because we found an overnight cruise that took us to Busan, Korea and were interested in a non-flight method of transit between countries. After spending a few days in…
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Saying Farewell to our Favorite Flavors of Japan
The last segment in Japan! We covered more distance by train in one day than any other of the trip just to say we made it onto the island of Kyushu. We spent some time in Hiroshima learning about the impact of the atomic bomb, visited several castles, and ended our time in Japan with…
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Munching our way from Kanazawa to Kyoto
Since Tokyo we have mostly been off the normal path for tourists, but as we got to Kanazawa and especially Kyoto they were already starting to swarm, I can’t even imagine what it would have been like in a few weeks when the cherry blossoms burst forth. Kanazawa Through the Snow We left Takayama on…
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Monkey See, Monkey Onsen, in Nagano, Japan
This week we went from spring back into winter! From Sendai we headed into the mountains to the ski town Yuzawa, also the home of the Kiyotsu Gorge and splurged a bit on our ryokan. Then we took a few more trains to Nagano where we got to see the snow monkeys enjoying onsens and…
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Walking across Tokyo and Riding the Rails to Mt. Fuji and Sendai
Why yes, we did walk across Tokyo. Our feet were complaining a bit the next day but at least we only walked one way and could take the train back. I’m dividing up Tokyo into about 1 week chunks but we did quite a bit of adventuring so hopefully these won’t be too long winded.…
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Relaxing on the Beaches in Koh Lipe, Thailand
I hope you’re up for some beach and sunset pictures because that’s mostly what you’re going to be seeing this time. After Laos, we spent about a week in the Andaman Sea on the island of Lipe (“Koh” means island in Thai). It is about as far south as you can get and not be…
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Refueling with Croissants in Laos
It has officially been a month that we have been on this adventure, and already we are heading to country #5. After so many adventures and mostly full days of travel and experiences, we decided Laos would be somewhat more relaxed. That turned out to be good planning as we both started off the week…