Category: Places Visited

Elephant Nature Park - adventurousfigs.com

Volunteering at Elephant Nature Park

There are many elephant interaction opportunities in Thailand, many of which include elephant riding. Some of these tourist organizations are focused on providing the best life possible for the captive elephant, but more often...

Chiang Mai - adventurousfigs.com

Grand Canyon of Chiang Mai

I love to swim… Dani really loves to swim. If there’s a slight chance to get into a some type of body of water, Dani is all for it. So when we talked about coming...

Chiang Mai - adventurousfigs.com

NYE Lantern Festival in Chiang Mai

When I researched things to do for our trip into Chiang Mai, Thailand I found out about the Yi Peng Lantern Festival in November. It’s an unbelievably huge festival of lanterns and we were...

Upcoming destinations of 2016

2015 has been an amazing year filled with many different destinations, cultures, foods and new friends. We’re ready to welcome 2016 and we’re excited for the travel plans we have coming up so far...

Cambodia - adventurousfigs.com

The best temples of Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat in short is a compilation of temples and along with Machu Picchu is one of the MOST magnificent man-made structures we’ve ever seen. There are several temples within the park, and although...

Cambodia - adventurousfigs.com

How to travel cheap in Siem Reap

The city Siem Reap  has turned into a touristy area because of their beautiful Angkor Wat temples. We’d just left Phuket, which, if you didn’t read our post, was an even bigger tourist trap area....

Dubrovnik – Video

Dubrovnik – Video

We absolutely loved Dubrovnik’s beautiful Old Town and clear blue refreshing sea front, but we did experience some of the tourist traps that we’d managed to avoid pretty well up until this point. Due...

Phuket - adventurousfigs.com

Beach bums in Phuket

We enjoyed being beach bums on the beautiful island, Phuket. Phuket is the very southern part of Thailand that’s filled with white, sandy beaches and warm, clear water. You know what else Phuket is...

Bangkok - adventurousfigs.com

First step into Asia through Bangkok

The sporadic changes we’ve made during our adventure have created some of the greatest experiences, and now we’re in Asia! Like I explained in our Oslo post, we found ourselves in a situation where...