I had a two-night layover in Singapore between New Zealand and Vietnam. I landed in Singapore shortly after 5 am and got to my hotel at 7:30. I couldn’t check in yet but they did let me get changed and then I was off to find breakfast. I ended up in an underground food mall,… Read more

Landing in New Zealand was like a homecoming for me. Being able to easily understand the language and feel safe was just amazing. I did land at 5 am and immigration was the most intense I ever experienced, but I was in the car towards my Airbnb at 7:30 am. I just put my stuff… Read more

I landed in Santiago de Chile after midnight, after a 24-hour travel day with multiple layovers. Therefore, I decided to book an airport hotel that also included pick-up from the airport. This ended up being a Hilton Hotel, and they picked me up with a luxurious but also enormous van, which was a bit absurd… Read more

Costa Rica was a destination I was traveling without working/volunteering anywhere, which I was very excited about considering the amount of hours I had worked in Guatemala. I had a super early flight and had to be at the airport at 3am, which meant I landed at 7am in San Jose, Costa Rica. From there… Read more

This blog is going to be quite different from the previous ones, as I am unfortunately not at liberty to disclose a lot of things that happened during my stays there. In Guatemala I worked at an English school as an English teacher.  I had a lot of fun teaching and met some amazing people there, as most of my students… Read more

I landed in Cancun, but that was not my final destination that day, so I made my way outside to the ADO Bus terminal and sat in the scorching heat for two hours until my bus came. I took the bus to Tulum, and had my first party hostel experience there, which turned out to… Read more

Coming to Mexico was a little scary to be honest. It was the first time I traveled all alone to a place where I knew no one, and couldn’t speak the language. I landed in Mexico City at 7:30pm, and when I came out of the airport, it was already dark out. Thankfully my Uber… Read more