Hello all, My blog has moved to missvacation.net, finally got my own domain 🙂 Please subscribe to my new blog so you can get notified when I posted a new post and continued to follow my adventures (Yellowstone National Park, South Africa, Cotswolds-UK, and Zion/Bryce National Park trip reports coming soon). During the move, I…
Many of you have asked how much did it cost us for our crazy 3 weeks trip through 2 continents and 5 countries? I did the cost breakdown for you to show you that it is doable if you plan in advance! Note that the cost is for 2 people in USD and for some…
For those of you who followed through our crazy 3 weeks trip through snowy Switzerland, storybook-like French town/village of Colmar and Eguisheim, tulip blooming Netherland, desert trekking in Sahara, colorful island of Procida, and southern Italy Matera to the Amalfi Coast, we finally came to the last installment of our trip 😦 Don’t be sad,…
Before our long drive back to the coast – Amalfi Coast, we made a stop at the panoramic view of Matera (we went there the day before late afternoon and the city was in shadow). Morning light provided great photo ops of the Sassi from this side of the valley! Goodbye Matera! Our 4-hour journey…
Good morning Matera, it was finally clear sky! Early in the morning, we walked to Chiesa di San Pietro Caveoso as the sun light up the stone colored Sassi. We walked the S-curve road hugging the cliff of Matera and on the other side, I can see clearly the small canyon underneath the Sassi. The sun…
After our wonderful breakfast, we checked out and rolled our luggage up those stairs to wait for the bus…thinking to save from the transfer cost of €15. We waited, waited and waited for over half an hour and the bus did not show up! We were getting nervous and a lady at the bus stop saw us…
After Morocco, we headed to an island off the coast of Naples, Italy called Procida. When people talk about islands around Naples, the most famous one is Capri. We didn’t go to Capri, instead, we went to Procida. Why Procida? I bet most of you never even heard of this place. I found out about…
Waking up in a blue heaven was like in a dream, doesn’t it sound familiar? Yes, it sounded like my favorite place in this world – Santorini. But this time, it was Chefchaouen! This blue town that looked too storybook like to be real! We got up at 7:30 and headed out to take more…
Packed and checked out, we waited at the lobby for our transfer driver to arrive. The staff at the riad gave us a bag of breakfast items – bananas, yogurt, some kind of sweet bread so it was nice of them to at least gave us something unlike the one at Marrakesh. The staff got…
Woke up by roosters in Fes in a room colored by the stained glasses windows, good morning Fes. We had a good Moroccan breakfast in the beautiful riad and after breakfast, our guide arrived for the half day walking tour 9:30-12:00 pm for 250 dirhams (fixed rate and inexpensive). I like to navigate places by…
It was just like a dream that we rode on the camel into the Sahara Desert, slept in the nomad camp, climbed up a sand dune to see the magical Milky Way! And the dream did not end there, we ran up the sand dune again to see the beautiful sunrise, woah! I see the…
Having a wonderful Moroccan breakfast was a great way to start the day especially at the superb food quality – Chez Pierre. My favorite was the Moroccan pancake with 8 different sauces and spreads; my favorite combo was the butter with honey! The food kept coming! Until our table was filled with food, yummy yummy! After…
Early in the morning, we woke up, packed, and got ready to have our early breakfast but came to be a disappointment that we were only served a piece of corn bread-like and coffee. That was our so-call breakfast which was night and day from the breakfast we had the morning before. The night shift…
Our best meal in Marrakesh so far – our breakfast in our courtyard, we were served dish after dish and….mint tea? Yes please!!! I am not a tea person but the mint tea is very good, we were joking that we should grow fresh mint back home to make mint tea haha! Our full breakfast,…
Our first step into Africa continent and also our 29th country we visited – Morocco! Our first stop in Morocco was Marrakesh – the famous thousand years old market – Jemaa el-Fna and the gateway into the Sahara Desert. Our Lufthansa flight landed at 2:50 pm and the first thing we did was filled out the arrival…
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