A Place Both Wonderful and Strange – Tash & Ricki's Career Break Travels

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  • Our 2024: Wrapped

    Yes, I’m aware we are well over halfway through 2025 (and rapidly closing in on three quarters…!). But I had promised (threatened) a wrap up post, and the blog just… Read more

  • Last Stop: Laos

    A few days before we were due to cross the border into Laos, the country made international headlines — for all the wrong reasons. Several tourists had died through alcohol… Read more

  • Time for Thailand

    Exactly a year to the day since we left for a two week holiday to Thailand, we coincidentally found ourselves heading back again. The third city that would be a… Read more

  • Going Batty for Cambodia

    After comfortable rail journeys in Vietnam, it was time to try out the South East Asian bus network for our crossing into, and travel through, Cambodia. Many skip the capital,… Read more

  • Further Ventures Through Vietnam

    Despite arriving tired and groggy after our overnight sleeper train, we only had two days in Hue, so quickly set to reinvigorating ourselves. I had never heard of Hue before… Read more

  • Good Morning, Vietnam

    Well, really it was “Good afternoon, Vietnam” as we arrived into Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport via Istanbul. After our epic central Asian tour and more interaction than we’ve been… Read more

  • Travelling the Silk Road pt 4: The Truth(s) About Turkmenistan

    “Are you sure we’re not going to North Korea?!” I had to supress a laugh as a fellow G-Adventurer clearly hadn’t realised what she’d signed up for when booking a… Read more

  • Travelling the Silk Road pt 3: Ooohs and Aaahs in Uzbekistan

    Perhaps fittingly given the metaphorical bumps in the road throughout Tajikistan, the border crossing was equally as frustrating. It was possibly the most drawn out we’ve experienced all year, as… Read more

  • Travelling the Silk Road pt 2: Testing Times in Tajikistan

    We had experienced so much in the first two countries of the Silk Road, that it was hard to believe we were only just over a week into the tour. … Read more

  • Travelling the Silk Road pt 1: Kicking Off in the K-Stans

    I’ll be honest, when Ricki said he wanted to do a tour of the five Stans of Central Asia, my gut reaction was “Why would we want to go there?”.… Read more