A big tourist attraction in Thailand is elephants. There are a ton of options available, where you can see an elephant up close and personal, though not all of them are good. While in Thailand our group decided we wanted to go visit with some elephants. Our CEO did not go with us seeing as [...]
We spent 1 full day in Vang Vieng on a miniature tour within our tour where we went kayaking and tubing. We were driven out into the mountains to tube in a cave. The water was freezing and many of our tour group got scratched up and bruised and returned to the picnic zone frozen [...]
I love Autumn. I love the change in colors in the trees, the local apple orchards preparing for visitors and making all sorts of goodies for guests to snack on, and pie. Making pie in South Korea isn't easy. Oven's are not really a thing. I have a conventional oven, but I don't quite trust [...]
The last part of the Sunrise Tour was to Lake Ashi or the Hakone Lake. We spent the time on our bus solving puzzle boxes and being rewarded with candy, and trying futively to snap pictures of Mt. Fuji whenever our tour guide pointed to the mountain in the distance as the bus swerved through the mountains. [...]
After Mount Fuji our tour headed out for lunch by lake Kawaguchi. There was an option in the tour to include lunch or wander around town in search of lunch. After learning my lesson in London I opted to eat the included lunch. There was a vegetarian and non-vegetarian option that our guide asked us [...]
Before I left Korea I booked a day trip (through Viator at a friend's suggestion) to Mt. Fuji. I decided that of all the things near Tokyo I wanted to do, a trip to the largest active volcano in Japan, Fuji-san, was highest on the list. The tour I booked was a bit expensive, but it [...]
Changdeokgung Palace is one of five grand palaces in Seoul and the second one I've visited. (You can read about my trip to Gyeongbokgung here) I went with friends on Seollal and it ended up being free for the holiday. We wandered around and took photos before getting tickets and paying for the tour for [...]
On my last full day in Bangkok the temperature was still surprisingly cool. Almost cold. I'm not sure if it was the cool refreshing weather or that it was my last day but I ended up having a lot more energy than I had the rest of the week. So on my way back from [...]
Nathalie and I wanted to go to one of the islands off the coast of Busan, a island called Oryukdo and we found a ferry that went out there. So after lunch we headed to Mipo Terminal to catch a ferry. We got there right in time to catch a ferry about to leave. We [...]
Redcliffe Plantation was completed in 1859 by James Henry Hammond and is the smallest of his many plantations. He named it Redcliffe because the dirt is red around the house and it sits up high. It was his show plantation, the party house, or the place to show off just how well he and his [...]
