Going
Back to Bangkok: A Return to South East Asia - 2011
Going
Back to Bangkok tells the story of traveling with my girlfriend
in South East Asia. In many ways it follows from the more than
six months I spent in South East Asia five years earlier which
I detail in How
to Get to Bangkok. She and I traveled up and down the
country of Thailand and into Laos, Cambodia, Burma, and went as
far afield as Malaysia.
Like my earlier
trip, I kept a record of that journey which in part details changes
since I'd been there before, and also how much more I learned
about the countries, myself, and what it was like to travel with
someone else.
This journal
begins with leaving Winnipeg for western Canada where we caught
a belated flight to Bangkok, and then outlines the train north
into the mountains and across the border into Laos where we floated
down the Mekong River. From there we bus across the hinterland
to a new border crossing, north for a jaunt into the mountains
by motorcycle, and into Burma, and then south to Cambodia to explore
Angkor Wat. From there we re-enter Thailand, travel south to cross
into Burma and then Malaysia where we explore Penang and Georgetown
before we made our reluctant way back to Bangkok and a flight
home.
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