We took a fun family vacation to Florida, including Disney World, and hopped on a Caribbean cruise with stops in Curaçao, Aruba, Cabo Rojo (Dominican Republic), and Coco Cay (Royal Caribbean’s private island in the Bahamas). We had an awesome time, but let’s be honest—the trip wasn’t exactly rich in culture… unless you count Mickey…
Category: Asia
Oaxaca – Mezcal and Petrified Waterfalls
Our last day of our Oaxaca trip and we choose another 13 hour tour!! yeey! We were actually dreading this one, but it was the best way to see all the sites and we are so glad we ended up doing it as it was a fantastic experience. This time, after some research form Eitan,…
Quebec – The Last Day
Our first stop today was the Quebec Citadel, also known as La Citadelle, which is an active military installation and the secondary official residence of both the Canadian monarch and the governor-general of Canada. It is located atop Cap Diamant, adjoining the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Quebec. The citadel contains the oldest military…
Montmorency Falls
Today we were traveling for a couple hours to Quebec City. Before leaving Montreal we quickly stopped at the world-famous St-Viateur bagel shop to pick up some breakfast for the road. In contrast to the New York-style bagel, the Montreal bagel is smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked…
Montreal – Old Town
After a quick breakfast in the Airbnb we took the metro northbound to the Little Italy area to visit the Marche Jean Talon. It is one of the oldest public markets in Montréal. Inaugurated in May 1933, it was first called the Marché du Nord, but in 1983, its name was changed in honor of…
Charleston and The Start of The American Civil War
We started our day early by taking a ferry to Fort Sumter, which is only accessible by boat. Of course, this was the sight Eitan was most excited about as it is where the civil war started and it is packed with military history. The visitor center has a small museum, we did not arrive…
Tent Rocks
When we travel to a city, we try to find a nice outdoors activity for a day. This country offers so much beautiful natural landscapes, mostly unknown, that would be a shame to miss out. We drove a couple hours to the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. A remarkable outdoor laboratory, offering an opportunity to…
May 18, 1980
On May 18, 1980 at 8:32 a.m., a magnitude 5.1 earthquake triggered one of the world’s largest recorded landslides, followed by one of the most powerful volcanic blasts in the history of North America: Mount St. Helens. That morning, twenty-three square miles of the mountain blasted sideways at 650 m.p.h. The temperature reached 660 degrees…
Ramadanicious
Today was our last day in Dubai before leaving for Europe! We walked again towards the old part of town. By pure luck we found the Bastakiya Quarter, established at the end of the 19th century by well-to-do textile and pearl traders from Bastak, Iran, its labyrinthine lanes are lined with restored merchant’s houses, art…
The Triumph Of Money Over Practicality.
Our adventure in Dubai continues with a day spent the Jumeirah area next to the famous Palm island. We started by visiting the Jumeirah public beach next to the Burj Al- Arab hotel. This fancy 7 star hotel (they self awarded that many stars as the official count only goes up to 5 stars), is the…
Touching The Sky!
We decided to focus our sightseeing today in the Burj Khalifa area. This new developed area includes a mall, aquarium and the tallest building in the world! We started by taking the metro to the Dubai Mall, this huge shopping center has everything you will need to survive the apocalypse. The metro stations here are absolutely…
1/3 Cruise, 1/3 Vegas & 1/3 Disneyland
We have adapted to Ramadan, we knew in order to survive the day we had to eat the biggest breakfast ever. Our hotel offers a buffet which was actually pretty good for the price; we ate like there is no tomorrow. We decided to divide Dubai into three areas and visit 1 of them each day….
Abu Dhabi And The Very Expensive Mosque
Today we needed to adapt if we wanted to survive the month of Ramadan here. We walked to the supermarket to get some pre-made breakfast to bring back to the apartment since we couldn’t eat the food in public (luckily there was a market across the street from the apartment). Supermarkets here are absolutely amazing…
The Emirates
The Kathamndu airport and lounge was as good as before and when we were boarding for our flight to Mumbai (our stopover) we were upgraded to first class! I think the airline employees were a little racist, but we think we got that upgrade for being white, the other 2 white passengers on the flight looked…
And On The Seventh Day… We Rested
After we arrived from the Annapurna hike we could not resist to walk even more! the lake was beautiful so we walked around until we found a nice restaurant to eat our first real meal. Eitan got a nice real steak and Sarah was happy with a glass of wine. We continued our walk around…
Annapurna Trekking Part #2: The Climb To Poon Hill
So now for the second half of our trek….2 days of hiking is needed to get to Ghorepani, from here you can climb 3210 m to Poon Hill which is suppose to offer amazing views of the whole Annapurna mountain range. Unfortunately, after waking up at 4:00 am, the weather was terrible so we knew…
Annapurna Trekking Part #1: Nayapul to Ghorepani.
We arrived in Kathmandu and got picked up at the airport by the trekking tour agency owner. He was extremely nice and gave us some flower necklaces like in Hawaii (we still don’t know why). We drove to the office so we can pay for the trekking tour and got some shirts as gifts. Finally…
Thuk Jay Chey Tibet
Thuk Jay Chey is how you say “Thank you” in Tibetan. This is our last entry on Tibet and we really enjoyed our time here. So… Thank You Tibet! Today was a very interesting and expensive day. Because of the idiots of Air China cancelling our flight we needed to book a another tour day…
On the Way
The next morning we visited the Palcho Monastery in Gyantse on the way to Lhasa. We drove though very beautiful green mountain scenery. The monastery precinct is a complex of structures, which, apart from the Tsuklakhang Monastery, also includes its Kumbum, believed to be the largest such structure in Tibet, that is most notable for…
EVEREST
We continued our drive from Shigatse for about 9 hours with several photo stops towards Everest Base Camp on the Tibetan Side. Our first stop was a high pass, the highest altitude point we visited on the whole trip (around 6100 meters). It was cold and very windy! There is a monument welcoming you to Everest…
Shigatse
Today we had a 6 hour drive in the van to our next stop, Shigatse which is the second largest city in TIbet, west of Lhasa. The ride was enjoyable since we got to chat with all the awesome travelers on our tour and luckily the roads were nice and smooth, totally unexpected.The scenery here…
1 Monastery, 2 Monasteries, 3 Monast…..
We started at the same time in the morning to visit Drepung Monastery located at the foot of Mount Gephel. This is one of the “great three” Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. The other two are Ganden and Sera. The explanations of the guide are spot on and we are learning a lot about Tibetan Buddhism, from traditions to…
The Land Of The Snow
Today we finally met our tour buddies that will be touring with us for the next 8 days! We can only say we are so lucky to get such a nice group, 3 British, 2 Mexicans, 1 Argentinian, 1 Peruvian and 2 Americans make our very diverse group. We hit it off immediately as everybody here…
The Flight To The Top Of The World
Disclaimer because I’m paranoid: The “Autonomous” region of Tibet is one of the most politically sensitive disputed territories in the world. I will try to stay away from political comments, unless is absolutely necessary for the story. If you know me even a little bit you will know which side I support and which side…
Earthquake
This post is going to be short, basically the last day in Kathmandu before we fly into Tibet. We will come back to Nepal after to continue our adventure. Today is our last day in Kathmandu before we fly into Lhasa, we found out there is a citywide public transportation strike going on today, so no…
The Kathmandu Valley
Fun Fact: Nepal does not have an independent day because Nepal was never colonized. Nepal is also the oldest country in South Asia. We decided to make a full day trip today to other cities in the Kathmandu Valley, we are going too Bhaktapur and Nagarkot, these places are about one hour driving from Kathamndu so…
That Weird Flag!
2:00 am and Eitan woke up to an earthquake, he made a huge mistake and immediately woke up Sarah; she is so afraid of earthquakes she started to panic given we were in Nepal and the buildings here are not built with the same standards as the U.S; You could here tourists running down the…
Welcome To Nepal
Today we woke up at 3am for our early flight to Kathmandu. The day we were expecting finally arrived and we officially survived India! We even got to squeeze in an early morning lounge breakfast before our flight. The airport in Kathmandu felt calm and old. We had heard it would be a complicated process…
Namaste India
The next morning we took a taxi to take us to North Goa, this part is supposed to be a lively area full of restaurants and bars. Our hotel was right in the main area and this time really walking distance to the beach. We went to see Calangute beach, one of the biggest and…
Chill In South Goa
We wait in the airport in Goa for our bags, you can tell immediately that people traveling here are wealthy, they look, dress and act the same as wealthy Mexicans. Our airport pickup was waiting for us to take us to our first hotel in South Goa that is south of the airport, around 20…
Deja Vu
Eitan messed up the itinerary a little bit and allotted one unnecessary extra day in Aurangabad, the city that served as our base to visit the Ajanta and Ellora caves. We decided to take a more relaxed day and not to too much sightseeing. The first stop of the day was the Bibi Ka Maqbar,…
Ajanta And Ellora
Today we had our second to last day of temple seeing in India (but who’s counting?..). We hired the same driver who picked us up from the airport because he seemed like a decent guy. He drove us two hours to Ajanta, yet another UNESCO site. The Ajanta caves are about 30 rock cut Buddhist,…
America Day
We started our day by changing it a little by visiting another temple. This time it was a synagogue, who would have thought there are Jews in India! Here is some background of Indian jews: Prior to the arrival of Baghdadi Jews in India, the Jews residing in Mumbai had come as representatives of King Solomon and…
Slumcat Billionaire
Everybody have heard of Mumbai famous slums, more after watching the great movie “Slumdog Millionaire”. Before visiting them we had some idea of how they looked, but the reality was very different. Slum tours are very common in Mumbai, but also described as unethical. We were curious to see them, also we don’t care about…
The Gateway to India
The next day was a full sightseeing day. We are staying in a great area called Fort, just north of Colaba which is the southernmost part of Mumbai and it is the touristy district where all the attractions are located. Everything is walking distance around this area and it is full of restaurants, art shops,…
The Venice Of The East
We started our morning a little late after a rough battle with the snooze. Too late for breakfast so we made it an early lunch with some Indian food. We recently discovered how good they cook Okra here, or how locals call it “lady fingers”. It came by pure luck in one thali and since…
Octopussy
Today we decided it is time to ship more souvenirs but for a moment forgot and were quickly reminded that trying to ship something in India is NOT simple at all!!! First we asked the hotel for a box and of course multiple workers were involved in this process on finding us a box. We…
Gimme More Rupees!
Today we returned to our lake view restaurant for breakfast; Eitan ordered pancakes and we have realized that in India their concept of a pancake is a crepe. Sarah got oatmeal, our first time seeing oatmeal on a menu in 3 months! Sarah unfortunately was feeling under the weather but she picked the perfect day…
29 And Counting
Editors note: Many people are asking us who is writing the blog, so I will explain the behind the scenes of who is responsible for this beautiful literature… Basically, we both tried to write it when we have time at trains, hotel nights, airports, etc.. We then give it to the other person to add a few…
8-Bit Bundi
Bundi is a small town east of Jodhpur. Most people stay here for weeks or months to relax. It does not have all the craziness of all the other cities in India and you can see that immediately. People are extremely friendly and they want to shake your hand while saying “welcome to Bundi”. There…
WHERE IS NOODLE 