Streets of Hanoi

We walked on the streets of the old town of Hanoi. We saw a few sights (temples, churches), nothing too crazy or different from the usual sights. Hanoi does have an interesting street setup. The names of streets are named after the guilds that used to line them. After reading about this in the guide [...]

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Hue

Hue is a town which houses the an Imperial Citadel. The citadel is a huge complex in the middle of the city. There is an outside wall, which houses many buildings, shops and houses. We rented bicycles and crossed the moat to check what was on the inside of the huge walls. Inside the walls [...]

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Mui Ne Sand Dunes

Mui Ne has some pretty spectacular sights. One being the sand dunes, there are two of them, one close to town (the yellow dunes) that sees a lot of tourists and another over an hour out of town (the white dunes). We signed up to go to the yellow ones early in the morning, early [...]

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Wat I saw: Angkor Wat, Part 2

After two days of looking at temples, not really getting too many shots I was too happy about, I went on the Internet and searched out what the best may have in store for us. I quickly saw how cool this place could be and got a little giddy. I committed myself to wake up [...]

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Angkor Wat: Part 1

While in Cambodia, one must go to Angkor Wat. So we did, we had the hotel booked for a couple of days so we opted for the 3 day pass. Using the strategy of saving the best for last, we say all the outer temple first, slowly making our way to the crown jewels of [...]

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Georgetown Buildings

Georgetown is full of old buildings (as you may have gathered from the last post). This morning I went out early and took some shots. It was great walking around in the morning and seeing the town slowly wake up, unfortunately most were driving. I stopped for breakfast at an Indian stand and got a [...]

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Sleepless in Singapore

We left the new modern (and hard to get to) Bangalore airport at 11:30 in the evening. We decided to go on the budget airline Tiger Airways. Tiger Airways takes budget to a whole new level. When we went to sit down in our seats, there was not much room. My knees were touching and [...]

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Royal Enfield

A couple of Months ago I had this idea. Stop cycling, send them home, buy a Royal Enfield and ride the Enfield up to Nepal, renew our visa and then tour northern India. Tanya didn’t like the idea much, and for good reason: I had never driven a motorcycle; and India is a hard place [...]

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Trichy

We awoke to our alarm on our rest day, which is never really that enjoyable but we had a busy day ahead of us and we couldn’t spend it in bed. We got our sticky bodies out of the tent and put on our clothes. We ate some peanut jaggary snacks (kind of like peanut [...]

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Tanjore

Tanjore is  small busy city that boasts a nice old temple (with World Heritage Listed status). First we checked out a palace though (it was on the way). The palace wasn’t anything too special, but it did have a few highlights. There was a museum and an art gallery, but we didn’t check them out [...]

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