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A view of UNESCO Luang Prabang and the Nam Khan River from atop Phusi Hill in north central Laos.
Budget Culture Food Language Nature Transport

11 Things to Love About Laos

August 31, 2023April 22, 2024 Michael Green

Laos is a land to love. It’s an earth space that can have you feeling like you’ve stepped back in time, while simultaneously, the country is developing at a moderate pace. I don’t believe that Laos is well-known to most of the eight-billion-plus

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The view from above the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phu in Champasak, southern Laos.
Budget Culture Nature Spirituality Transport

Khmer Hindu Time Travel at the Ruins of Vat Phu

April 11, 2023April 16, 2024 Michael Green

The ruins and grounds of Vat Phu, in Champasak, Laos, are a uniquely aesthetic and ancient Khmer Hindu site. Like many vintage earth spaces, strolling around and absorbing the open-air energy and its ancestral remnants, provides for great pondering. How different was life

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Wat Toong Shetthi on the outskirts of Khon Kaen, Thailand
Budget Food Language Spirituality Transport

Khon Kaen: A City of Unknown Wonders

February 15, 2023April 14, 2024 Michael Green

I found to my pleasant surprise that Khon Kaen, Thailand is a city of unknown world wonders. The above Thung Sethi has been compared to the Taj Majal. It’s certainly not that, as this architectural astonishment isn’t recognized on a world scale. Only

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Room with a view at the InTouch Guesthouse, Vientiane, Laos 15 dollar room
Budget Transport

How I Traveled From Laos To Thailand for Under Three Dollars

January 13, 2023April 13, 2024 Michael Green

It was day 30. Time was up on my Lao stamp validity. The wonderful woman at the In Touch Guesthouse in Vientiane said she could get me a door-to-door drop off from the guesthouse, all the way to the customs office in Nong

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The map on the seat back in front of me on a long haul flight from JFK to HK.
Budget Food Transport

Wiped Out After A Journey Across the Earth

November 9, 2022April 8, 2024 Michael Green

Traveling across the earth threw me for a loop. There was not a thought about being on the receiving end of extreme jet lag. When traveling across time zones, odd fatigue and not being able to sleep at night are often a given,

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The cathedral and birds at the Parque Central or Central Park, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Budget Culture Transport

Guatemala City: A Terrific Travel Destination

October 15, 2022April 7, 2024 Michael Green

Because I’d read more bad than good about Guatemala City, I loosely considered skipping it. However, I’d come to realize that la capital is a terrific travel destination. Like many travelers, upon arriving, I took a shuttle straight to Antigua and got to

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A refurbished former US school bus the market in Quezaltenango, Guatemala
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Refurbished Former US School Buses: The Pulse of a Nation

October 5, 2022April 6, 2024 Michael Green

As the subcontinental railway is the pulse of colorful India, the refurbished former US school buses are the man-made vibration of greenery-laden Guatemala. Shortly after arriving at Guatemala City airport, I was on a 45-minute shuttle bus bound for Antigua, Guatemala. Arriving in

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Budget Motivation Nature Transport

Journey to Fuentes Georgina: Geothermal Pools in the Guatemalan Highlands

September 23, 2022April 5, 2024 Michael Green

The early morning Journey to Fuentes Georgina started from the Hotel Lar Antiqua beside the Parque Central. After a cool 20-minute power walk I was at La Rotonda and soon thereafter on a refurbished school bus bound for Zunil and its geothermal pools.

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Mayan Time Travel at the Ruins of Zaculeu

September 17, 2022April 4, 2024 Michael Green

Unplanned until the evening before, I found myself wandering the grounds of the ancient Mayan site of Zaculeu, in Huehuetenango. Because Guatemala’s second biggest city of Quetzaltenango hosts a huge celebration for the country’s Independence Day, I was forced out of the Lar

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Budget Nature Transport

Lago Atitlán: A Highland Lake of Many Quaint Towns

September 10, 2022April 3, 2024 Michael Green

Lake Atitlán is a magically wondrous body of water that Mayans have surrounded for millennia. The following anecdotes are based on the subjective and spontaneous choices I made while spending two plus weeks around naturally and culturally stunning Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. When someone

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