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Gabriel, Enrique and Zofia swimming in Cenote Chihuo Hol Merida loop – day 6: At 5:30 am we snoozed the alarm and were on the road just after 8:00. We stopped in Sacalum for our oats & yogurt breakfast with raisins & nuts and soon afterwards Steven said he felt some inner tremors so he [...]
Our guard dog We left Bangkok on the 3rd, Sunday, on a 7:00 pm bus and were waiting for our second bus at 5:30 in the morning over coffee. Once we got to Pha Ngan island, pronounced, “pahn gahn”, we got a free ride to the Haad Gruad resort priced at 300 baht per night. [...]
Licensed to soak The Thai new year, Songkran (สงกรานต์), officially ended today with the not-so-subtle parade of white military-grade police wagons with officers in tow slowly marching down Koasan road, the main party drag, effectively sweeping the street clean of water warriors and ending four days of fun wet celebration. The water canons, and we [...]
With Bela from Angel Dive We got really drunk last night with Bela and company, the dive locals and we said goodbye today in front of Good Morning Vietnam the restaurant he works at (in addition to diving). We leave tomorrow on a bus so we wanted to see him one more time before we [...]
Dive instructor Tuan After our initial dive four days ago, we liked it so much we decided to sign up for certification from SSI. Apparently, Vietnam is a cheap place to get certified which allows us to dive anywhere in the world without a guide. It’s a fairly expensive hobby so we probably won’t be [...]
Take a big step We signed up with Angel Dive shop for a Discover Scuba Diving course which covers the basics of shallow diving and two fun dives. The price is $55 each for the day which includes: boat ride out to our dive spot, one-on-one training from a certified Instructor, two dives, all equipment [...]
Kawasaki 250cc dirt bike Zosia was terrified, literally terrified of riding the giant up and down roller-coaster island hills in an ordinary scooter. So we toured the place on a proper motorcycle, a nice new Kawasaki 250cc dirt bike setup with street wheels.
We had a nice breakfast of yoghurt and honey with nuts and then got a ride to town for croissant and coffee and then got a couple quick hitches and a couple slow hitches. We found a giant cherry tree and ate our fill of the best dark red fruits we ever had. A couple [...]
