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Angkor Wat with kids: How to prioritize what to see and have a great time at one of the wonders of the world. Our family stands outside of Angkor Wat itself.

Angkor with kids travel guide: On-the-ground advice from our family to yours

Take the family trip of a lifetime to Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom with our on-the-ground travel guide and itinerary Why is Angkor with kids a trip of a lifetime for one of your family vacations? A powerful empire built the massive city of Angkor, then they abandoned it for reasons we still don’t fully …

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Family travel destinations: The first 3 countries we visited and WHY we chose them

3 main principles guide our family travel destinations There are so many reasons people pick where and why they travel to certain countries. Sometimes it’s for a love of the culture, or maybe family history and ancestry. In our case, we’ve focused our family travel destinations around 3 main factors: As you can also imagine, …

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Angkor... Angkor Wat... Angkor Thom... what the wat?

Week 12, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat, and Angkor Thom, Cambodia

Diary of a Globetrotting Family: On the ground and in the air of one of the world’s great cities In the 1100s and 1200s, the world’s largest city wasn’t London or Paris, not Mexico City or Tokyo. Nope. The world’s largest city held an estimated population of around one million people, had engineered water reservoirs …

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Excited to visit one of Thailand's most iconic and eclectic temples.

Week 11, Chiang Rai, Thailand, to Siem Reap, Cambodia

Diary of a Globetrotting Family: Global offices, big life questions, indoor leopard, shuttle surprise in Siem Reap Ah, December! In short sleeves and sandals. Starting to look ahead toward Christmas, it’s going to be a very different holiday season for us. Still. With Chiang Rai being such a great family destination, we put aside thoughts …

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