Selecting our destinations was difficult because we wanted to go everywhere. We ended up planning this trip the way we plan most of our trips. Plan around the food first and everything else second. That would naturally take us to Singapore because their culture seems to revolve around food more than any other place in the world, and probably back to Vietnam since we have a real love of the cuisine. Even though Elliot enjoys our trips we felt that it would only be fair to try to schedule in a few days at the beach to give him, and us, a break from running around.
Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia were all on our list of other places to go but trying to figure out the best way to see as much as possible, given our limited time frame was not easy. We eventually settled on a routing that would take us directly from New York to Hong Kong and from there we figured out an itinerary that would allow us all direct flights to Hanoi, Singapore, Phuket and back to Hong Kong. Total trip time is scheduled for 15 days with 6 flights and over 20,000 flying miles. To put that in perspective, on CBS' Amazing Race the teams fly less than 30,000 miles during the entire race.

Looking at a map, you may think that flying west would be the quickest route but the best way is to actually fly over the North Pole and then through Siberia and Mainland China.



This was not your typical food court with McDonalds, Taco Bell and Pizza. Instead it was set up as a village of a dozen or so mini restaurants selling a variety of street foods from different Asian countries. We all shared some Won Ton noodle soup from the noodle place and beef randang and some fishball/tofu soup from the Malaysian restaurant.
Our time here in Hong Kong is short but we will be back for a few days before we return home. Next stop... Hanoi
Joi gin
Corinne, Keith & Elliot
1 comment:
Hola from Spain! ( our location at the moment).
Great site...I love family travel sites and just found yours! Our daughter was 5 when we left 18 months ago on our multi-year, open ended trip around the world, so we too have become experts at family travel. Isn't it the best? It was fun to see you in places we have been.
Hope Eliot likes this video from our Mozart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9rDTZj-m4
Happy travels, carpe diem!
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