Adventure The Slow Boat to Laos
June 5, 2019 Catherine Mendoza 5Comment

Is Laos part of your trip? Have you considered taking a slow boat to get there but don’t know how and where to start?    Well, you landed on the right article! 🎉 📍 LET’S GET STARTED We took the sleeper train to Chiang  Mai from Bangkok. If you’re coming from Bangkok, the sleeper train which takes 13 hours is the best option. To know more about the sleeper train, you can click my blog post about it here. We arrived in Chiang Mai at around 8 a.m., took the tuk-tuk and headed to the bus station for our trip…

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Adventures Taking 5,500 steps to Adam’s Peak
March 12, 2019 Catherine Mendoza 8Comment

5,500 steps? One way or back and forth? The answer is, one way! I know, right?!   Adam’s peak reaches an altitude of over 7,350ft above sea level.  Climbing up Adam’s peak was part of  Chris’s and my itinerary during our 25-day trip to Sri Lanka.   We took the train from Ella,  our previous destination, to Hatton for five5 hours at $4 each, and we were picked up at the Hatton train station by a driver we hired. Hiring a driver costs $40/day.   It was a two-hour drive from Hatton to Adam’s Peak and we had to stop…

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Lifestyle & Review Learning Deutsch 101. Everything you want to know
November 21, 2018 Catherine Mendoza 1Comment

Deutsch? Ich verstehe das nicht! In English, I don’t understand!   Determined, dedicated and for the love of learning our partner’s main language, we passionately decided to enroll the Deutsch language class.   We were all strangers to the Deutsch language on the first day of class. Our Deutsch lehrer, Greg, however, was kind enough to speak a mix of Tagalog and English to us and explain everything we needed to know about our course. (more…)

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