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Angkor Archeological Park
A huge (16.2 Km2) archeological site in the Jungle near Siem Reap. It was originally constructed around 1150 CE, becoming a huge city that was at its peak was home to more than 1,000,000 Khmers before it was abandon in the 1431 after a terrible 3-year war. The Park has over forty different archeological sites,…
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Songkran Festival – Thai New Year Celebrations
We were very lucky to experience the Buddhist/Hindu celebration of Songkran, known as the water festival, that honour the Thai New Year in Hua Hin. This festival, celebrated widely throughout Southeast Asia is based on a Zodiac calendar, it has strong religious, cultural and family components. In recent years it has been popularized into a…
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Hakuba
Our time in Hakuba was amazing. We lucked out and arrived the week of a major snowstorm, lasting 5 days. Our first two days had smaller amounts of fresh snow, once the blizzard set in we had new snow days like we have never experienced, i.e. 400 mm in 24 hours. We experienced powder skiing…
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Our First Days In Tokyo
We arrived in Tokyo Narita airport at around 5 PM, from the airport we had an amazing sunset view of Mount Fuji. It was surprisingly efficient to get our luggage go through the visa process and then clear customs. Unfortunately, we should have been travelling with the doctor’s letter for Aiden’s Vyvanse, luckily a customs…
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Hello world!
Hello Friends and Family. We are switching from Qweepsake to a family blog as a limit of ten photos a week would not do justice to keeping up with our amazing trip. Thanks for coming along on our adventures. Please keep in touch and share your comments. We are all also available on Whatsapp. Thanks…