I don’t know what we ate, but it destroyed our will to live. We got really sick eating Indonesian food, so we tried to take it easy for a few days. We booked the tour to visit Pramanban Temple at Sunset, it turned out better as the original tour was going to take us at…
Category: Asia
Yogyakarta: City of Sultans
Today we woke up early to take the train to Surabaya. The train station at 6:30am had people singing Karoake, not sure why they think this is what we want to listen to this early but let it be. We got on the train and then were informed we were sitting in the wrong section,…
One Of Those Cities
When you travel long term you quickly learn that not all places you visit will be amazing, breathtaking or interesting. Surabaya was our first not awesome city of this trip. Surabaya has nothing to offer (we still managed to find some good sights), the traffic is the worst we’ve seen in our lives (we may…
Mt. Bromo
Today we had another early morning. We woke up at 4:00 am to drive/hike to Seruni Viewpoint, from here you can see a panoramic view of Mt. Bromo, Mt. Batok, Mt. Semeru, and Segara Wedi (“Sea of Sands”) from Mt. Pananjakan. Mt Bromo is located in The Tengger Massif, The area is an active volcanic complex surrounded by…
Blue Fire
Disclaimer: It was incredibly difficult to take pictures under the volcano’s complete darkness, so most of them came out blurry. No pictures have been edited and no filter was used. This is exactly how we saw it. For the next 3 days, we decided to get a tour that will take us to Kawa Ijen,…
Temple Overdose
Today was a very exciting morning for Sarah. Her parents messaged her saying she passed her first social work licensing exam. She was nervous to find out if she passed and was sooo happy to hear the great news that she jumped up and down and likely woke up the entire hotel! We went to…
Rabies
Today Eitan learned a few very valuable life lessons: Do not mess with wild animals. Always get all the travel vaccinations before going to 3rd world countries. Listen to your wife when she tells you not to feed the monkeys. We woke up around 6am to the loudest F$^%&ing rooster concert ever that kept on…
Balimoon
Bali, Bali, what a magical place you are! After a delicious homemade banana pancake breakfast, we took a taxi from Kuta to Ubud, but because streets in Kuta are so narrow, our taxi driver needed to drive us in his motorbike to the car parking lot. On our way to the cultural area of Ubud, we…
Here Comes The Sun
We arrived in warm Bali around 3pm. The airport here was much smaller especially in contrast to the Seoul airport but decorated very nice Balinese style. We searched for a taxi driver that didn’t completely rip us off (welcome to the 3rd world) to take us to our hotel in Kuta. Our hotel is in a…
Kamsahamnida Korea!
We started our last day of Seoul by trying on traditional clothes at the hostel. Sarah looked really pretty while I looked like a very feminine gang member. We walked towards the Namsan Park, this is Seoul’s central park and the Seoul Tower is right there at the top of the hill. We are on…
The Vegetable
In this post I will refer to Sarah as “The Vegetable”. You might not know this but when Sarah gets cold, she develops severe muscle atrophy, brain paralysis and speech impediment; in other words Cold Sarah = Cucumber. So today we took the subway for about an hour to Suwon, “The City of Filial Piety”…
Winter Wonderland
Today we went to what’s considered one of the best sites in Seoul, the Changdeokgung Palace Secret Garden. A genius had the greatest idea (sarcasm) to only allow visitors in if they take a forced 1.5 hour tour of these pretty but uninteresting gardens where they bombard you with the most useless information at the…
Seoul… A city with Soul
Despite being exhausted from our early morning to North Korea we also wanted to continue to explore Seoul. We went to this artsy area called Itaweon with many craft stores and souvenir shops, it was incredibly nice. Itaewon is also known for traditional tea houses. We went to one, originally because we just wanted to…
Kim Jong Noodles
Days like today feed my travel instinct, experiences like this just make me want to go out and see what this planet has to offer. Today we took a tour to the DMZ (Demilitarized zone), the border between North Korea and South Korea. This place is the most militarized area in the world, there are…
Welcome to Seoul
Sarah couldn’t find her gloves so we went back to the restaurant from last night and they were sitting exactly where she left him in an outside cubby where she had also taken off our shoes. We share this story because it displays how nice this culture is, they would never even think of stealing…
Hahoe Village
Today was Sarah’s 30th Birthday in Korea!!!! If she wasn’t married yet, this is the day where she is officially past her prime here and she can expect to live a single life from now on (actually Sarah is 31 in Korea as when you are born here you are immediately 1 year old) We…
You said easy?
We focused our second day in Gyeongju to visit two UNESCO sites around 30 minutes away from the city. The first one is the Bulguksa Temple, this temple is of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and encompasses seven National treasures of South Korea. It is considered the most beautiful temple from the Silla Kingdom. It…
Mc-Gyeongju
We gave up, we tried to be strong but at the end we succumbed to the temptation of a juicy Mcdonalds hamburger. At least I got to try the McBulgogi, not as good as my favorite quarter pounder, but its always good to try the specific item that McDonalds offer in every country. We arrived…
Double Decker Bus..an
Second day in amazing in Busan and we are almost fully rested. We decided that the most efficient way to see all the sights was to take the hop-on, hop-off double decker bus. Our fist stop, was the UN Memorial Cemetery where all the soldiers from countries like Canada, Australia, U.S.A, India, etc.. that died during the…
Lost in Busan!
We took the three hour KTX bullet train from the super modern Seoul Station to Busan, the train goes as fast as 250 mph (usually takes 6 hrs on a normal train) and enjoyed watching little Korean kids eat weird smelly food as they rode with us in the train. There is even a little…
May The Kimchi Be With You!
Hello Everybody, We had a nice 12 hour flight to Incheon, Korea which is the little city next to Seoul where the airport is located. We flew in the new A380 which was a nice experience for airplane lovers like me! Asiana was a cultural experience in itself. The flight attendants bowed to each of…
First Stop: South Korea
We are all packed and ready to fly tomorrow to Seoul, South Korea!! We have been talking about this for about 2 years. So I must admit its pretty surreal we leave tomorrow, but it is all about to become very real! We can’t wait to begin our adventure and thank you to everyone who contributed…
WHERE IS NOODLE 