Luang Prabang is a beautiful and peaceful city that every traveler to Laos must visit. After backapcking in this city, I have come up with a unique 4-day itinerary that is designed to help you explore the best of the city. More importantly, however, this itinerary focuses on authentic, local, and cultural experiences that will allow you to leave Luang Prabang feeling connected with the local way of life.
“You don’t know our country till you know.” I asked him what he meant, and he explained how so many people come to Vietnam to learn about the country, but they don’t ever take time to see the real side of it. He assured me that, The West Ho Chi Minh trail is where I could truly see the beautiful landscapes, important history, and village lifestyle of Vietnam. I was sold and signed up.
In the middle of my solo backpacking trip in Vietnam, I was stuck in my itinerary planning. I knew I wanted to tour some of the country via a motorbike, but I didn’t know the roads too well and most importantly, didn’t know how to ride. After some googling I came across a local company (in Hoi An/ Hue) called Hoi An Motorbike Adventures. I took a flyer and booked two motorbike tours with them. Here is my review of the company
Understanding Suffering Buddha Sak, the head monk of Thailand’s International Meditation Center, would say that during meditation, one’s mind will wander as if it is
It takes a matter of seconds to run into “Robot Restaurant” when googling “Things to do in Tokyo”. Robot Restaurant is one of the most popular tourist experiences for visitors to Tokyo. What exactly is it though? Robot Restaurant is less of a restaurant and more of a restaurant that puts on one of the wildest and most techy spectacles you will ever see.
The most important day of D-One’s life came in the year 2000 when his father brought home a black and white TV. The family sat down to watch one of the few channels they received and came across an American wrestling match. D-One was mesmerized by one particular wrestler who he describes “as the biggest man he had ever seen”. This man was, of course, Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
The Gibbon Experience is a once in a lifetime jungle living opportunity. Gibbons are small apes that are scattered all over the Nam Kan National Park. Many people think the experience is all about Gibbon sightings, but there is so much more to it. After returning from this incredible adventure, you will have a different perspective of the jungle. By living in the world’s tallest treehouses, ziplining to destinations, and trekking through the national park, you will get to experience the jungle from different vantage points during different parts of the day
I never fully understood the power of the English language until I backpacked through South East Asia. It was during this trip where I realized just how many people make a living through the tourism industry. For many, learning English is the way out of poverty and hardship. This was the case for Siphai Thammavong.
Life without any of our five senses wouldn’t feel like life at all. We are constantly bombarded by sensory stimulation. The smell of flowers, the sight of a sunset and the taste of an overcooked meal; Senses are the soldiers that feed our brain information. Though senses are arguably our biggest gift in life, they also can guide us in the wrong direction if we don’t understand how they are processed in our minds.
Getting to meet the Vietnamese people was one of the highlights of my entire life. I quit my job to backpack across South East Asia and getting the time that I did with the local people of Vietnam was life-changing enough to justify this entire experience. These people blew my mind and the more time I spent with them, the more I could feel myself changing. As much as I loved the backpacking social life, I found myself slowly passing on hostel happy hours, bar crawls and social gatherings, in favor of local interactions. I became obsessed with spending as much time with the Vietnamese as possible and learning from their way of life.