by Calvin Sun | Dec 13, 2014 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Brunei Darussalam, Fit for Foodies, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Serendipitous!, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
Jame’Asri Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah mosque just got served: Our group departed East Timor-Leste the next morning for Bali, where the plan was to spend another day before leaving the next morning for Manila. But it would be in Bali where...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 11, 2014 | East Timor-Leste, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
Yesterday and today we went way further off the beaten path: the second largest “city” in East Timor of Baucau (which is really more of a seaside village than a city).The 10 of us hired a private van to take us there and back the next day, with a...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 9, 2014 | East Timor-Leste, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
Today the group pulled an all-nighter to catch at 7:30am flight from Bali to Dili, the capital of East-Timor Leste. When we landed, I immediately knew we were in a country unlike most others. This is travel purely off the beaten track, where...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 8, 2014 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Epiphanies on the Road, Fail, Fit for Foodies, How Did You Do That?, Indonesia, Introspection, Lessons Learned, Mo' Money Mo' Problems, The Philippines, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
In the last post I described the massive risk we were taking rebooking a flight from the Philippines to Bali after a later flight of ours was cancelled because of the typhoon. Well, we made it. Not even a typhoon can stop the monsoon! After...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 7, 2014 | Camping, Crisis, How's the weather?, Let me tell you a Story..., The Philippines, Uncategorized Stories, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
We’re not in the clear yet, so keep your fingers crossed until we reach Bali. And even then, I’m not sure if typhoons affecting even a single country may spread to the entire Southeast Asia region. For more drama, read on… On our third...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 5, 2014 | The Nightlife, The Philippines, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
We hopped on our private boat again today….and…. …that’s pretty much all we did. We did nature. Jumped in for some snorkeling: Walked along the sandbar known as Snake Island: Poured rum into coconut...
