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Our dream trip across 12 countries – how much did it cost us?

On Tuesday June 27th, 2017Wednesday January 25th, 2023 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Australia, Asia, Bez kategorii, Burma/Myanmar & Laos, China, The Philippines, Indonesia & East Timor, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh, Thailand, Uzbekistan & Tajikistan, VietnamTagged #asia, #azja, #backpackers, #Celebes, #chiny, #cost, #Indonesia, #Japonia, #kosztpodrozy, #nepal, #Papua, #podróż, #srilanka, #Sulawesi, #Sumatra, #Tajlandia, #travel, australia, Birma, filipiny, Laos, malezja, mjanma, Vietnam14 Comments

Having finished our 6-month journey, during which we visited 12 countries (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Australia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Japan, the Philippines, China and Nepal), we often get questions regarding the cost of such a trip. In this post you will find information that will help you to realize that you don’t need a lot of money (which does not mean you need very little of it) to make your travel dream come true. Of course now we can call ourselves smarter and advise you which country you could skip right away if your budget is very limited; and this does not mean that it must be Australia, which many people associate with gigantic travel expenses! Sit back comfortably and make yourself decide after reading our tips whether a long travel is something you could go for taking into account various destinations and travel costs:)

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Vietnamese New year – how is it celebrated in Hoi An?

On Tuesday February 7th, 2017Sunday November 19th, 2017 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, VietnamTagged 2017, altar, Anbang, ancestors, Banh Tet, beach, cau lau, Chinese, ciasto, colonial, Da Nang, death, dziedzictwo, French, gifts, gio lua, Hoi An, holiday, homestay, karaoke, kleisty ryæ, Kwiatkowski, lampions, lampiony, Light Festival, Lunar calendar, Lunar New year, mandarin, Marble Mountains, Mickey Mouse plant, New Year, ochna integerrima, palenie banknotów, Rok Koguta, Rooster Year, sajgonki, spring rolls, sticky rice, styl kolonialny, style, temple, Tet, tree, UNESCO, vietnamese sausage, Vietnam, Wietnamski Nowy Rok, wishes, world heritage12 Comments

Tet Nguyen Dan (known as ” Tet ”) is the most important Vietnamese holiday. This is the period when the Vietnamese celebrate the Lunar New Year (the date is taken from the lunar calendar). It is a movable feast, which falls at the end of January or in early February – at exactly the same time as the Chinese New Year. This year the Vietnamese have celebrated the New Year on January 28. It is said that the celebration lasts normally 3 days, but in practice we saw it continued up to 1 week and it significantly differed from the typical New Year celebration in Europe. There are no grand balls and parties, it rather resembles the Polish Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when gifts are handed in to relatives who gather together at a big table covered with lots of nice food. Let’s have a closer look at it then 🙂

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Waking up in Descending Dragon Bay!

On Saturday January 28th, 2017Friday November 24th, 2017 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, VietnamTagged 2 day cruise, Amazing Cave, bahia, Bai Chay, boat, bote, cabin, canoa, canoe, cooking class, cruise, cueva, delicious food, Duck Islet, farma, Fight Cocks, fish, food, Gia Lam, Ha Long Bay, Hanoi, Incense Burner Islet, kabina, kajak, kajuta, kayak, local bus, łódź, minivan, Moon Light, motorbike, nadar, overnight cruise, oyster, pearl, Pearl farm, perła, rejs, sajgonki, Sapa, spring rolls, Stone Dog Islet, Sung Sot Cave, Surprising Cave, Swan Islet, swim, train, Tuan Chau, Vietnam, view, viewpoint, vino, Vietnam, wine, wino, Zaskakująca Jaskinia, Zatoka Schodzacego Smoka6 Comments

Just imagine that you spend a night on a boat in a cozy cabin being surrounded by 1,900-2000 rocky islands and islets with caves and grottoes .. And in the morning what wakes you up is an unearthly view from your cabin window and it turns out to be one of 7 New Wonders of Nature… Ha Long Bay or Descending Dragon Bay is situated in the Northeast/Dong Bac region of Vietnam and it has been considered the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1994. This incredible place is visited daily by a large number of tourists, who most often go there for 4/6/8h trips looking from the distance like herrings packed in small boats entering the bay. They all are taken to the same place, so called Surprising Cave, the most spectacular cave in the bay. We did not want to make this kind of hop-on-hop-off trip in a cramped boat. Instead we decided to establish a closer contact with the Ha Long Bay and spend there almost two days and one night – the boat cruise provided us with many unforgettable memories!

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Our dream trip across 12 countries – how much did it cost us?

Vietnamese New year – how is it celebrated in Hoi An?

Waking up in Descending Dragon Bay!