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It was with a lot trepidation once I stated sure to a month-long backpacking journey throughout three international locations. My spouse and I’ve actually performed this a number of occasions earlier than on even longer time durations, however this time, the deal breaker is we’re lugging a three-year previous child together with us. A really rowdy three-year previous child.
However what’s performed is finished. I agreed, the flight tickets have been booked, accommodations lined up, actions and itineraries had been deliberate. So, I suppose it is a go.
We’re truly revisiting locations we have already travelled to years again throughout our ASEAN Summer season Loop, Seashore Hop Asia, Similar Similar Summer season Journey, and SEA2Africa journeys. A consolation zone of type—testing the waters, if you’ll. Simply to see if we may actually pull it off.
So, for this journey, which we dubbed Backpacking With A Child 2023, we’re touring to a few international locations—the Philippines included—spanning eight cities for thirty six days. A little bit of a disclaimer, we initially deliberate on simply bringing backpacks with us—therefore the title—like within the olden days, however the child actually simply wants a lot stuff that we ultimately gave in and switched to rolling baggage. So, the higher title for this journey would have been, Baggage Trolleying With A Child 2023. Har. Har.
With that out of the way in which, this is what our elementary route seems like:
Manila ➤ Kuala Lumpur ➤ Penang ➤ Langkawi ➤ Singapore ➤ Johor Bahru ➤ Kuala Lumpur ➤ Manila ➤ Siargao ➤ Surigao ➤ Dinagat Islands ➤ Surigao ➤ Manila
From Manila and again, we’re flying by way of Cebu Pacific Air. From Kuala Lumpur to Penang to Langkawi, all the way in which to Singapore, we’re taking a very low cost multi-city AirAsia flight (round ₱800.00++ per method per particular person), together with the Johor Bahru to Kuala Lumpur flight. The journey from Singapore to Johor Bahru can be performed by way of bus, since getting out of Singapore by way of aircraft is kind of costly. From Kuala Lumpur to Manila, we’re heading straight to the provinces of Surigao Del Norte utilizing our CEB Tremendous Cross.
The one three locations we thought of for this yr’s route was Penang, so we will go to the child’s grandma and grandpa; Johor Bahru, so he can run round Legoland; and Kuala Lumpur, so we will eat mee goreng on our favourite stall in Jalan Alor Meals Avenue. The remainder of the locations we included had been incidental, lol.
And sure, we additionally included a couple of Philippine locations for this journey as nicely. From Manila’s airport, we’ll head straight to Mindanao to go to three provinces within the area. And to lighten our load, we’ll cheat a bit by sending our huge baggage filled with stuff we’d be shopping for alongside the journey to a pal who lives close to the airport by way of Seize or Lalamove, lol.
This yr’s journey might not be as grand as our final The Eurasian Summer season Bump which had us flying to Mongolia and Russia, however child steps first. If we will one way or the other pull this off with out shedding our thoughts and all our hair out of frustration and pure exhaustion, then we’ll most likely transfer to a grander stage subsequent yr.
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