Travel To Grow

We had a little stopover in Koh Samui, so what better than to go Bungee Jumping!! Bungee jumping was something I had been dying to do forever and this was the perfect opportunity. I have to admit I was a little nervous but it was one of those things I decided before the trip that [...]

Today we head to our next sleeping destination, the stunning floating bungalows! We headed out on longboats for the adventure. Riding down this amazing freshwater lake was one of my favorite things in the world. I’m on a lake quite often in Ontario, but this lake in Thailand blew it out of the water. (sorry [...]

This day will go down as one of my most memorable experiences from my 40 days in Thailand. We began the day by taking a longboat out on a beautiful trip across the lake, I’ll write more about the lake and longboats next time but it was really beautiful. We were lead by Bau and [...]

The first trip we went on from smileys was to the monkey park. I’m a huge fan of monkeys, I think they are incredibly awesome and cute so I was pretty excited to go. The park was really cool, it was basically a big open area surrounded by trees and they provided us with little [...]

Coming off the train we saw something pretty sweet, there was this crazy looking bus all panted with cool designs. We were quite thrilled to find out it was our party bus! The bus was designed specifically for us and was packed with lots of fans to keep us cool, a pretty sweet sound system, [...]

After the temple the trip leaders decided to give us another unique Thai experience, a Thai massage! I’m a big fan of massages but this first massage in Thailand was… special. I had many other super awesome massages over the next 40 days but the first one I had turned out to be the worst [...]

The Adventure Begins After a staggering 24 hours of flying and stopovers I had finally made it from my home in Toronto to the beginning of my adventure in Bangkok. Inside the airport I met up with 2 new friends on the trip and together we found our trip leaders, Bertus and Jemma. We had [...]

The feeling before a big change in your life is a really interesting one. On the morning of January 20th when I woke up to head to the airport to begin my 40 day Thailand adventure, my first ever real travel experience, I was filled with a sense of total excitement and a weird mix [...]