Articles detailing my vacation to Southeast Asia in the summer of 2023, which was my last summer before high school.
This is it. The Finale of VN2023, which took more than 20 days in the real world and about 10 months of writing to finish. We’re pretty much done with the travel now, so the last few days will only consist of hanging with relatives, maybe visiting one or two more attractions, hanging with Mia […]
LIFE EVENTS – SEA2023 Part 18: The End (JP2024 is next) Read More »
One last day of exploring the North… let’s make it count. Today, we were going to Ha Long Bay itself, taking a boat cruise out to see all the islands in the area. If you’ve never heard of Ha Long Bay, you’ve definitely seen some of the pictures that come with it: these stone islands
LIFE EVENTS – SEA2023, Part 17: The one place Vietnam is known for (outside of the war) Read More »
The trip is gonna be coming to an end soon (Don’t worry, as I write this I’m only four days away from a vacation to Japan, and a JP2024 series is coming up next!) as we now head for another long car drive to Ha Long Bay, which is on the entire other side of
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We were headed to Cat Cat Village. First things first on our minds while we were there: Are there cats in Cat Cat village? We weren’t sure, although Koia said there might be some people in the village that raised cats. This village was deep inside the valley, in the middle of all the rice
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We woke up right in our hotel the next day, excited to get on with our exploration of a part of Vietnam that many Vietnamese, let alone tourists, never get to visit. Waking up, we had an amazing view of the rural mountains, but they got even better when we headed to a cafe on
Hanoi, Vietnam June twenty something 2023 So, uh… We’re going back to the visiting relatives thing for a little bit. Most of the morning was spent visiting our family— our parents had coffee while I hung out with Casey and we pretty much just stared at our phones and watched YouTube the whole time. I’m
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Hanoi, Vietnam June 24th, 2023 (OOF my photos are bad sorry) Ninh Binh was the next city we were headed to for the day. We started off regularly by getting up and probably screwing around a bit on our phones. We started to prepare for the long day ahead – probably one of the more
LIFE EVENTS – SEA2023 Part 12: Ninh Binh, the best city yet? Read More »
Our first full day in Hanoi begins- the phase of the North begins! The next ten days were all each incredibly notable in their own rights, and so much happened that all the words I could possibly paint in here might still miss out on great details that I have forgotten about. As I write
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The second phase of the trip was over, and for our third trip we planned to explore the north of Vietnam. After waking up in the morning, we got a quick breakfast and immediately prepared to leave. We called up a Grab taxi and immediately headed to the airport. The airport was quite far from
LIFE EVENTS – SEA Part 10: Going back to Vietnam! Read More »
(sorry for no title pic, I forgot to take pics that day) Our last day in Bangkok (Don’t get any funny ideas) started with us waking up and again struggling to get breakfast. The big mall next to our hotel was closed again (It usually doesn’t open until later on in the morning) so we
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