This was a dream vacation. That’s an understatement, to be honest. Food poisoning was on its last legs on the flights from Nepal to Qatar to Maldives. We were lucky that there was a rain delay holding up the sea plane from the capital out to the island where our hotel was, because we wouldn’t…
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Nepal is a country I’ve heard and thought about many times, and we were really excited for this one. Nepal has a ‘visa on arrival’ system, but let’s say it’s…disorganized. 1st, there are machines that you have to use to fill out your info and no one to help people who don’t speak English (the…
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Before our original plans had changed, I thought I had time to pack in a solo 1-day stop in Bangladesh before meeting my wife in Nepal. I used points to fly from Kuala Lumpur on Malaysian Airlines to Dhaka, booked my wife onto the flight short-notice, and we got the visa on arrival at the…
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From the home base in Kuala Lumpur, we took Air Asia (the discount airline) with backpacks only and went quickly through the airport PLUS didn’t have to pay to check bags. Let me say this was the coldest flight I’ve ever been on. Wow. We had Hyatt points used them at one of their new…
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Most people I know don’t even know that Brunei is a country. It’s tucked inside the Malaysian part of Borneo and has been independent since leaving British rule almost 70 years ago. However, their sultans date back a long time, and they’re still ruled by a famous sultan who happens to be one of the…
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