By Citylife | Thu 12 Mar 2020
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You’ll start your day nice and early – we’d recommend waking up at around 6:45am – before you are picked up at your doorstep between 8 – 8:30am and whisked
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Finishing one’s first meditation retreat at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand is a ritual unto itself. When I wake up that last day at 4 o’clock, I am excited
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Set in a charming little garden, Ban Ton Tao is a sufficiency village which is just a short drive around the lake from Phayao town.
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I discovered Trang’s Koh Mook and I am just going to crow about it for a bit…
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I was in Vientiane, Laos, for the first time recently. Going to Laos was like taking a time machine back to Thailand’s 1980s. I went there solely out of curiosity
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