For us, we felt that Hanoi was nothing exceptional.  We stayed in the Old Quarter and found that we just felt ripped off every minute, on every corner.  This was our general feeling in Vietnam especially.  We try to rationalize it…why do you feel that way in India too?  Maybe because both countries have such […]

Luang Prabang is one of the major cities of Laos (not too many) and the entire city also happens to be a UNESCO site.  We ended up staying 3 nights just to catch up on the website and get regrounded.  Tom decided to go south, so after 2 nights he left.  It was a great […]

In Chiang Mai we headed straight towards Riders Corner where we ended up staying for the next couple of nights.  Thanks to Phillip and his family for making it a great experience! Chiang Mai is definitely a nice chilled out place.  Nick and I spent a good day walking around and exploring the endless number […]

We headed in the direction of Chiang Mai and could only get to a city called Nakhon Sawan.  We got really lucky and found a good guest house within our range.  We had the most amazing noodles in broth with pork meatballs in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant just outside the guest house for 30 bhat…love when […]

It was a nervous yet excited feeling we had when we were leaving India.  We were really leaving our comfort zone!  We had booked a hotel for the first couple of nights close to the metro rail not too far from the airport as we knew we’d be making trips to the cargo terminal.  The […]

Kolkata is one city that has always interested me!  It definitely did not fail once we got there.  We attempted to cross the New Howrah bridge only to be entangled in a neverending jam with buses and the famous yellow ambassador taxis.  After what felt like forever we made it across and found ourselves surrounded […]

Visiting Patna Sahib Gurudwara was an amazing adventure.  I know that technically going to Gurudwara and especially one of the 5 Thakts should be something calming and spiritual, but for us it was a whirlwind!  The streets near the Gurudwara were congested and tiny with every vehicle (that means ox driven carts too) that you […]

We left Shillong and had to make a side trip to Guwahati on the way to Kolkata because we were having some trouble with our SIM card and internet that we had bought there.  That made us a little late and by the time we hit a little outside of Nalbari it was around the […]

Our goal was to get to Shillong…and from there regroup…if we wanted to go to Patna or on to Kolkata.  Our nerves were getting best of us and we were banking on getting to Kolkata as soon as we could.  On the way to Shillong we passed a few coal mining towns.  Which meant we […]

The road to Haflong to meet Charu and Kuldeep was another hell of a ride!  We wondered if we were going to have a repeat of our Nepal exiting experience since there seemed to be lack of a highway although people and damn Google Maps said otherwise! It was about 200 kilometers of pure refined […]