Thailand and Myanmar Cities

Darin and I have bought our return ticket to LAX on June 27th.  In the mean time, we plan on visiting Siem Reap, Cambodia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  But this tally will just count the cities we've visited in Thailand and Myanmar.  Our country count is now at 7.

Our last city count ending in Ha Long Bay in Vietnam had us at 29 cities.
30. Bangkok
31. Phuket
32. Khao Sok National Park
--   returned to Bangkok
33. Yangon, Myanmar
34. Bagan, Myanmar
35. Mt Popa, Myanmar
36. Nyaung Shwe (Inle Lake), Myanmar
--   returned to Yangon
--   returned to Bangkok
37. Koh Samui, Thailand
--   returned to Bangkok

Map of Thailand

Zoomed In Map of S Thailand

Map of Myanmar

Zoomed in Map of Myanmar Cities

Getting around, we did the following:
Plane from Hanoi to Bangkok
Plane from Bangkok to Phuket
Bus from Phuket to Khao Sok NP
Van from Khao Sok to Surat Thani Airport
Plane from Surat Thani to Bangkok
Plane from Bangkok to Yangon, Myanmar
Plane from Yangon to Bagan
Car from Bagan to Mt Popa
Car from Mt Popa to Nyaung Shwe
Plane from Nyaung Shwe to Yangon
Plane from Yangon to Bangkok
Plane from Yangon to Koh Samui
Plane from Koh Samui to Bangkok

Plane rides: 17 (previously at 8, plus 9 above)
Car/Van rides: 13 (previously at 10, plus 3 above)
Bus rides: still at 5
Ferry/boat rides: still at 5
Train rides: still at 17

Just to give you an idea of how much travelling we've done, here is a little calendar that shows which cities we were in on which dates:

Vietnam Cities Visited

Just left Vietnam yesterday and we had a great time.  A country that we would highly recommend to anyone.  We'll hopefully have posts up about the country sooner than later.  In the mean time, it's time to update our cities & transportation tallies.

Our last tally had us at 24 cities.  So on w/ our Vietnamese cities:
25. Ho Chi Minh City (AKA HCMC, AKA Saigon)
26. Phu Quoc Island (located just South of Cambodia)
27. Hanoi
28. Sapa (an 8 hour overnight train ride NW of Hanoi)
29. Halong Bay

Map of Vietnam; Hanoi in the North and HCMC in the South

Map of South Vietnam

Map of North Vietnam

Our transportation tally:
Hong Kong to HCMC by plane
HCMC to Phu Quoc Island by plane
Phu Quoc Island to Hanoi by plane
Hanoi to Sapa by train to Lao Cai, then van to Sapa
Sapa to Hanoi by van to Lao Cai, then train to Hanoi
Hanoi to Ha Long Bay by van
Ha Long to Hanoi by minibus

Plane rides: 8, previously at 5 plus the 3 listed above
Car rides: 10, previously at 7 plus the 3 vans listed above
Bus rides: 5, plus the minibus listed above
Ferry/boat rides: still at 5
Train rides: 17, previously at 15 plus the 2 listed above

Lots of travelling around!

Tally Up

Looks like we've been a little lax in our tally updates.  So we're in Veitnam now, but this list will just go through South Korea and China.  So that puts our countries tally to 4.

At the last time we left you, we were at 16 cities.  And below are the list of cities we've been to since Japan:
17. Busan, South Korea
18. Seoul
19. Suwon, South Korea
20. Beijing
21. Badaling, China (where we visited the Great Wall of China)
22. Shanghai
23. Hangzhou, China
24. Hong Kong

South Korea Map With Busan in the Lower Right Corner, Seoul  Near the N Korea Border, and Suwon  Just South of Seoul

Map of China & South Korea

Beijing to Badaling

Shanghai with Hangzhou to the SW

Here is our transportation tally:
Plane rides: 5 (previously at 4 plus flight from Seoul to Beijing)
Car rides: still at 7
Bus rides: still at 4
Ferry/boat rides: 5 (previously at 4 plus ferry from Fukuoka, Japan to Busan, South Korea)
Train rides: 15 (previously at 7 plus train from Busan to Seoul, Seoul to Suwan, Suwan to Seoul, Beijing to Badaling, Badaling to Beijing, Beijing to Shanghai, Shanghai to Hangzhou, Hangzhou to Hong Kong)

Japanese cities and transportation tally

It's been a little while since we've updated this list. Since that time, we decided to start counting the types of vehicle we took to get to various cities.

City count:

1. Dagupan City, Philippines

2. Lingayen, Philippines

3. Alaminos, Philippines

4. Baguio City, Philippines

5. Sagada, Philippines

6. Manila, Philippines

7. Boracay, Philippines

8. Bohol Island, Philippines (Tagbilaran & Loboc)

9. Tokyo, Japan

10. Hida-Takayama, Japan

11. Kyoto, Japan

12. Osaka, Japan

13. Kinosaki Onsen, Japan

14. Kobe, Japan

15. Hiroshima, Japan

16. Fukuoka, Japan

Whew! That's some list. 16 cities and 2 countries in just a month.

And now for our transportation count. For this, we only counted the mode of transportation to get to a city and not the modes in which we got around in the city. Nor are we counting transport from hotel to hotel. It's just a count from port to port.

4 Plane rides: LA to Manila, Manila to Kalibo, Kalibo to Cebu, Cebu to Tokyo

7 Car rides: Manila to Dagupan, Dagupan to Lingayen, Lingayen to Alaminos, Alaminos to Dagupan, Dagupan to Baguio, Baguio to Dagupan, Dagupan to Manila

4 Bus rides: Baguio to Sagada, Sagada to Baguio, Kalibo to Caticlan, Caticlan to Kalibo

4 Ferry/Boat rides: Caticlan to Boracay, Boracay to Caticlan, Cebu to Bohol, Bohol to Cebu

7 Train rides: Tokyo to Takayama, Takayama to Kyoto, Kyoto to Osaka, Osaka to Kinosaki, Kinosaki to Kobe, Kobe to Hiroshima, Hiroshima to Fukuoka

Northern Luzon Cities

I figured it would be best to update my list once a week as oppose to doing it every time we visit a new city, so without further ado, here is our current list:

Countries Visited: 1

Cities Visited:

1. Dagupan City, Philippines

2. Lingayen, Philippines

3. Alaminos, Philippines

4. Baguio City, Philippines

5. Sagada, Philippines

Tally

My sister and I have a running friendly competition to see who's been to more continents, countries, and cities. While I am currently winning the continent count, my sister has me beat in both countries and cities visited. But by the end of this trip, I should pass her up. So I thought it would be kind of nice to keep a running tab of countries and cities. But we have rules. Layovers don't count and neither do quick drive throughs. So while we had a layover in Hong Kong and we landed in Manila, neither city will count in my tally. Unless we spend some time there sometime later in our trip.

Countries visited
1. Philippines

Cities visited
1. Dagupan City, Philippines