Just before my trip to Serbia, every time another traveler asks me where I was going next, they’d get a puzzled look and ask “Serbia? Why are you going there?”.

Serbia doesn’t seem to be really known as a tourist destination. The main reason I was coming here was to actually just visit a Serbian friend I met in Seattle over 3 years ago when I was there for a 1-week IT training. It was …

I would’ve never found out about the Guca Trumpet Festival, one of the biggest festivals in Serbia, if my Serbian friend didn’t mention it. Hundreds of thousands of people attend this festival in Guca (pronounced ‘goo-cha’), a village of approximately 2,000 people, every year in August. This year was the 53rd time the festival had been celebrated.

I’m not really big into partying and wasn’t really sure what to expect in a trumpet festival, …

I wasn’t originally planning on visiting Turkey. My plan was to head straight to Serbia but since my flight had a stop in Istanbul I decided to might as well check it out. I gave myself 2 weeks to see the country and was surprised to learn that there was so much to see.

Turkey is a very interesting country with a lot of history. It’s located both in the European and Asian continents. It’s …

A lot of travelers I’ve met along the way told me they didn’t like Bangkok. They said it was too busy, or too crazy, or too hot, too dirty, etc. Maybe they just don’t like big cities. But my guess is most of them just didn’t spend enough time here to really experience the city.

Bangkok is a big transportation hub in Southeast Asia and many travelers end up here just to make a connection …

I was looking at Couchsurfing’s website one day while I was in Bangkok and someone posted something about going to Ayutthaya. I’ve seen similar posts before but I actually had no idea what’s to see there. But since it was pretty close to Bangkok, around 1.5 hours by bus, I decided might as well join.

We decided to do take the train on the way there as it seemed to be the popular way to …