🧭 Introduction & Why Go I came to Chiang Mai with a one-way ticket and a single plan: spend a few days here, then catch the slow boat down the Mekong into Laos. I ended up staying far longer than planned. This Chiang Mai travel guide covers what actually kept me there. It was June,…
🧭 Introduction & Why Go I didn’t plan much for Vientiane. It was the stop between Vang Vieng and my flight to Phnom Penh, so I booked a few nights, packed light shoes for walking, and figured I’d fill in the gaps as I went. That turned out to be roughly the right amount of…
🌄 Introduction & Why Go I stepped off the fast train from Luang Prabang expecting another sleepy Lao town, and instead got karst cliffs pushing straight up out of rice paddies on both sides of the Nam Song River. It had been raining on and off since the border crossing, and my first honest thought…
🌤️ Introduction & Why Go I stood at Angkor Wat at 5:40 AM with a thick grey sky overhead, and the sun I’d set an alarm for never really showed up. That’s the honest start to this Siem Reap travel guide: I went in September, rain was never far off, and the postcard sunrise didn’t…
🛬 Introduction & Why Go I hadn’t planned much for Phnom Penh. It was simply the airport I landed at after flying in from Vientiane, a stopover on the way to Siem Reap and the temples everyone actually talks about. I stepped out of the terminal into a wall of heat that felt heavier than…
📍 Introduction & Why Go The train from Da Nang to Hue sells itself as nostalgic, and for once the reputation undersold it: two hours of green mountains sliding past the window, my hands still smelling of sesame oil from a snack vendor three seats over. Stepping onto the platform, incense and diesel hit before…
