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Video Dump 5: India and Nepal
It’s time for another round-up of videos we took that didn’t quite make it into our posts. This one will cover India and Nepal. Enjoy! First, from our first stop in India, an aerial view of the madness at the Howrah flower market in Kolkata Click here to see the video from the Howrah flower…
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Khao San Road, Bangkok
Are you a bro on spring break from college looking to score? Then you’re going to love this place! Let me back up… We took the overnight bus from Krabi to Bangkok, and arrived at the unfortunate hour of 5:30 am. As we walked down Khao San Road toward our hotel, the smells of beer-stained…
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Railay: Rock Climbing Above Gorgeous Beaches
Are you a bro on spring break from college looking to score? Then you’re going to hate this place! Which is exactly why we loved it. After the overdevelopment (and the relatively high prices and lack of pristine surroundings that come with it) of Koh Tao, we set our sights further south and on the…
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Koh Tao: Slightly Underwhelming but Relaxing Nonetheless!
India and Nepal left us a bit disheveled. Well, mostly it was just India, but we never had the chance to catch up on comfort and relaxation while trekking in Nepal. So we made a beeline for a beach in Thailand. We needed a major recharging of our batteries so that we could genuinely enjoy…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
It's strawberry season here and we've had at least one strawberry-coconut smoothie per day! Yum. #Hsipaw #Myanmar # Still drooling over the chicken, bean, and coconut steamed buns we ate yesterday… # Went on a short trek to stay in a Paulang village in #Shan State. Back in #Hsipaw &laying low until we head to…
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Hiking in the Himalayas: The Ghorepani-Ghandruk Trek
After washing the Holi dye off our bodies (actually we would continue to find it in our ears, nose, and between our toes for a few days to come), we set off for the main attraction of our Nepal trip: a five-day trek through the Annapurna Conservation Area, a part of the Himalayas well known…
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Colorful Holi
We had heard about Holi well before leaving Africa for the South Asian Subcontinent. “It’s that crazy holiday in India where everyone throws colored powder and water at each other and people just go nuts”, fellow travelers told us. So we immediately looked it up and started doing our research on where to be for…
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Yum: Cookie Walla
A small sign in the bustling and over-saturated backpacker area of Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal calls to us. It’s small, shares no details, and is overpowered by the other bright signs around it, food carts, hotel- and trek touts, and live music coming from all directions, but it proclaims simply, “Cookie Walla”. We must go. We…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Very excited to be here for the elections tmrw. Got our Aung San Suu Kyi tshirt & we're ready to celebrate w the ppl of #MYANMAR # #Bagan #Myanmar is stunning- temples as far as the eye can see, and not even that many tourists considering it's the #1 sight in Myanmar. # #Myanmar in…
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History, Religion, and Yogurt in the Kathmandu Valley
A few days after a precarious exit from India, my dad met us in Kathmandu: he had been looking for a chance to catch up with us somewhere along our journey, and something about Nepal piqued his interest. A few weeks earlier, he pulled the trigger on a flight, spent some time researching the mountain…
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