Amanda Kingsmith

yoga teacher. world traveler. writer. podcast host.

Asia

Month 4 Travel Update Part 2: Bangkok to Bali

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The last time I wrote, I left you in Mandalay and it feels like so much time has passed and so much has happened since then. I am well into month 6 on the road already, yet I am still recapping the end of month 4. The days and weeks have begun to blur into one another and it feels like time is passing far too quickly. But back to month 4. Here we go…

We arrived in Bangkok tired, sick and ready to be in more of a developed city + country. It’s funny to look back on my travels in 2011 and remember how completely and utterly terrified I was of Bangkok then. I remember arriving in Bangkok from Greece and being so tired from jet lag, yet not allowing myself to sleep in the taxi from the airport to the hotel because of fear that I would be taken.

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Month 4 Travel Update Part 1: Myanmar

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Month 4 kicked off with us ringing in 2017 at the Golden Rock in Myanmar, but I’ll back up a bit and start from the beginning of our time in Myanmar. We arrived in Myanmar on December 28th, flying into Yangon (which used to be the capital city of Myanmar). Myanmar is a really interesting and unique country due to its corrupt government that didn’t allow tourists to enter for about 50 years. We had heard nothing but good things from people who had visited though, so we decided to visit for ourselves.

As we were about to touch down in Yangon, I looked out of the window and was greeted with the flickering of lights across the city. I was confused at first, until I realized that it was the instability of the electricity across the city. Stable electricity has never been a concern in my day-to-day life, and this was the start of my eye opening experiences in Myanmar.

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Month 2 Travel Update: Macau, Hong Kong + Shanghai

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As I sit down to write, I can hardly believe that another month has passed and that I’ve been away from Canada for 2 months. Time really does fly by, and I can’t help but wish that I could slow things down…

Over the last month we traveled through Macau, Hong Kong + Shanghai. We arrived in Macau to visit our Canadian friends, Josh + Tanis, who teach at an international school there. They are in their second year living in Macau so they are quite adjusted and familiar with the area, and it was really cool to see their life in Macau and to have them show us around a little bit.

Josh + Tanis are super busy with school, so we didn’t get to spend that much time with them, but we were grateful for the time that we did spend together. We had plenty of late night chats, dinner dates and good conversation about travel + life.

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