If you recall, we had to book an onward ticket out of Thailand when we were at the airport in Mauritius. So, we took the bus which we booked from Bangkok to Siem Reap, Cambodia. The bus went from Bangkok to the border where the bus company took charge of getting us through customs. We had done an eVisa but if you didn’t you could do it all at the border upon arrival...
From Mauritius we flew to Bangkok. Actually, we flew from Mauritius to Reunion to Bangkok including a six hour layover in Reunion. Upon arrival at the airport in Mauritius we hit a snag. This is the first time this has happened to us on this trip… and in fact ever. The Air Austral check in lady would not check us in without proof that we had an onward ticket out of...
After a fantastic 24 days in Madagascar, we flew back to Mauritius for a quick five day layover on our way to Southeast Asia. This won’t be a long post because frankly we needed to rest, so we did not do anything worthy of great detail. Several photos will help share the story. I am writing this post on the bus ride from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City...
I suppose for starters I should say that visiting Madagascar is not for everyone. First of all, we could not comment on 4 or 5 star travel in Madagascar. If that is your travel style, then you might want to look for other blogs that focus more on that. However, if your style of travel is anything like ours, then this post might be helpful for you. We have had...
We just finished up our 24 day adventure in Madagascar. We had planned so much of our travel for the past few months around getting here. Madagascar has been on our travel bucket list for a long time and we were sad to leave. There is more to see in this beautiful country so we may just have to make a return visit in the future. I am splitting my post into two posts...
Several months ago we did a cruise along the Norwegian fjords and up to Svalbard. On that cruise, one of the waiters was from Madagascar. We asked him tonnes of questions and our desire to visit Madagascar began to grow. Getting there is expensive though; especially as we started to look at flights to island hop including Seychelles, Reunion and Mauritius. These are...
This will be a very short post. We are in Genoa, Italy (pronounced Gen-o-va in Italy). Getting here was a bit of an issue. We had a bus ticket from Munich. On the way to the bus station, the underground broke down and we were stuck for about 20 minutes. We ended up missing our bus… I am surprised this hasn’t happened more to us. We lost about 50 euros but I may get...
It has been a while since we stayed in a hostel. For two of us we have found that AirBnBs are cheaper than hostels. It also gives us our own space including a kitchen we can cook in. The trade off is that we are often outside of the best part of the city. However in Zagreb we booked a hostel in a really great area of the city. The bus from Sarajevo to Zagreb was...
After Belgrade, we took a bus to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was stop two in the Balkans and in the former Yugoslavia. It was also the one we were most excited about. Of our stops on this trip, Sarajevo is perhaps the most affected by war ‘in our lifetimes.’ I can remember the wars in Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995 and I can remember the Olympics in...
We left Budapest on September 9th by train headed to Serbia. We planned a first stop in Subotica, Serbia which is just across the border from Hungary. Literally, it is right across the border. The train stops inside the Hungarian border for border control. Several border control agents board the train with portable devices to check and stamp our passports. Then the...