Travel blogger. Budget backpacker. Digital nomad. Serial expat.
If there’s one thing you’ll see everywhere you go in Southeast Asia, it’s motorbikes. Playing Frogger in Saigon, hopping on UberMOTOs to navigate Bangkok, weaving through the Burmese countryside on a bike… As of a few...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 23, 2016 · Last modified September 5, 2018
Despite rising visitor numbers, Myanmar’s capital of Yangon is a destination that remains largely untouched by tourism. In my first day spent wandering around the city, I could count on one hand the number...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 22, 2016 · Last modified March 28, 2018
Having just opened in October 2015, the five-star Taipei Marriott is a new star on Taipei’s hotel scene. I had the chance to call it home for two nights during my visit to Taiwan...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 12, 2016 · Last modified July 12, 2020
I simply couldn’t believe what I was seeing when my shuttle pulled into Panviman Chiang Mai’s gates. Sure, I had seen photos of the resort online, but, prior to my arrival, I had little...
Eighty days and eight countries later, my Southeast Asia trip has come to an end. I fly to Japan tomorrow and then onward to Paris, with a day in Abu Dhabi in between. For...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 2, 2016 · Last modified March 28, 2018
My stay at Watermark Hotel & Spa Jimbaran was a purely luxurious way to wrap up my stay in Bali, but the cherry on top? Visiting the hotel’s LiANG Spa for my first ever...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published May 23, 2016 · Last modified March 28, 2018
I didn’t want to say goodbye to Vietnam. In my two weeks there, the country had exceeded already very high expectations. I don’t know if it was the country itself, the people I met...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published May 5, 2016 · Last modified April 4, 2019
Castaways, Castaways, where to begin? I write this several days after returning, still trying to digest it all…and still trying to get the sand out of my hair. For backpackers in Vietnam, Vietnam Backpacker Hostels’ Castaways Island...
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