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How incredible is Bhutan? 😍🇧🇹 @breathebh How incredible is Bhutan? 😍🇧🇹

@breathebhutan planned an amazing day buying groceries and preparing lunch for the monks at a monastery, but we woke up to pouring rain and the news that a landslide had wiped out the only road to get up there 😳

Our guides plus our host at @gaseloecolodge quickly came up with a new plan, and contacted the neighboring monastery that we could actually see from our bedroom window. 

A few minutes later we were carrying kilos of veggies down the hill, and working together to peel, wash and dice before their team of chefs took over so we could go observe the monks’ morning prayers. Then we shared a beautifully prepared lunch together in the monastery 🍲

You can imagine how difficult it may have been to bring a rambunctious 4-year-old into an almost silent monastery… But when we entered Bodhi was completely mesmerized by their rhythmic chanting and whispered to me “Mama, is this magic??”

Yes, Bodhi, it was definitely a magical morning by every sense of the word ✨

Thank you again to our amazing guides Pasa, Nima and Wangdi at @breathebhutan and our host, Sangay, at @gaseloecolodge for making that day happen. It was one to be remembered for sure. 
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Our 6 year old loves twirling her way around the w Our 6 year old loves twirling her way around the world, but this place may take the cake as the most stunning backdrop ever 😍

India is truly a place like no other.

It’s spicy and colorful, with unimaginably delicious food from the most unexpected places. 

It’s chaotic and loud, with tiny pockets of calm if you know where to look.

It’s flexible traffic rules that are made to be broken, yet we somehow haven’t seen a single accident this entire trip.

It’s all the best parts of family and community with the most friendly and welcoming people, yet personal space is a completely foreign concept here. 

It’s peaceful monkeys pensively watching the crowds watching them, only to suddenly chase the onlookers squealing away. 

India is a country every curious traveler truly needs to visit at LEAST once in their lives. There is so much to see and do here that could you easily spend 6 months traveling around and still feel like you haven’t scratched the surface. 

These two weeks have been a perfect introduction for the kids, and a refresher for me and Georg since we haven’t visited in over a decade. We will be back!
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“Look closer… and you’ll see something extra “Look closer… and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true.”

@mashpilodge is the most beautiful place for a total life detox if there ever was such a thing 💆🏼‍♀️

Away from the rat race, away from negative vibes, away from the made-up competition that is engrained in our existence as a way to better ourselves, away from all of that, and a place to just BE. 

To be truly immersed in nature every time you step outside of the most incredible lodge, in the middle of a cloud forest, filled with an unfathomable amount of thriving life of all kinds 🐸

Mashpi is such a wonder, and we’re so thankful we had a chance to experience such a rare place on this beautiful planet of ours as part of our collaboration with @ecuadortravel 🦋

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One trip around the world and four trips around th One trip around the world and four trips around the Sun… 🎂

This week we celebrated our littlest adventure kid turning 4! (Swipe to see a photo from his first birthday on safari in Kenya) 🥹

We love this spunky, kind, inquisitive, hilarious little man of ours and we can’t wait to see the grand adventures he takes in the next four years 🌏

Happy birthday, Bodhi! 🥳

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THE busiest. This place is stupid busy but also THE busiest. 

This place is stupid busy but also crazy beautiful.

These quintessentially perfect rice fields, with their incredible symmetry, are unlike any others we found throughout our trip. The only way to beat the masses is to show up at sunrise (with all the other Instagrammers) before normal people arrive 🤣

There are dozens of cafes and shops that line the road, which force you to walk through and become a potential customer to get to the rice terraces. Once on the other side you realize that every other cafe/shop has some sort of swing/bed/prop for you to take your perfect IG photo- bonus! 😏

Real talk: This was definitely, by far, THE most touristy thing we did during our entire trip to Indonesia over four separate islands, and potentially during all our travels last year haha… but it was a fun morning nonetheless 🤪 

Sometimes it’s fun to just be “normal” tourists and do “normal” people things instead of going so off the beaten track and trekking through jungles to live with tribes, for example, but then we get a taste of how busy these places are and are reminded there is so much more to see if you step outside your comfort zone and be a bit more creative with your travels. You learn so much more about yourselves when you’re out there instead of following the masses ❤️

📍 Tegallalang Rice Terrace, Ubud

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Not every playground needs a slide and swings… 😏

Outside Jogjakarta is a tiny fishing village built into a protected little cove. During the day a fleet of hundreds of turquoise boats are beached, waiting for their middle-of-the-night departures to get the best catch in the early morning hours 🌅

While the boats are beached they make the perfect jungle gym (regardless of whether you wanted to climb or not, you’re forced to maneuver over/under the overlapping stability beams if you want to make your way to this beautiful little beach) 😅

The kids entertained themselves here for HOURS, climbing around the boats, playing hide and seek, and swimming in the calm clear water until after the sun went down.

We ended this unexpectedly amazing little excursion with a $2 nasi goreng dinner at the only restaurant still open by the time we left the beach. The owners of the restaurant were so kind to let us use their showers to rinse off before our ride back to Jogjakarta, and even brought a huge bucket with hot water for Bodhi to take a bath in 🛁

One of our favorite memories from this trip for sure. Thank you, Indonesia, for your incredibly welcoming people, delicious food, and natural beauty. We can’t wait to return ❤️🇮🇩🙏

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6 going on 16 😳 I’m not sure when Liv got so 6 going on 16 😳

I’m not sure when Liv got so big and grown up, but I’m so grateful we have these photos of her from this stage of her life 🥺

Seasoned parents always tell you that time goes by so fast, but when you’re a brand new parent to a tiny newborn it seems like some days and sleepless nights go on forevvvvver. 

But then one day you realize your squishy faced baby has somehow turned into a beautiful young woman, wise beyond her years, cheeky as can be (you can see it in her smile in the first photo 😏), incredibly kind to humans and animals alike, curious and full of never ending questions, and one of the biggest joys of our lives 😩😭❤️

So now we’re those “seasoned” parents, telling all those new parents all the things they won’t listen to either. But one day you’ll realize it really all does go by so so fast.

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Absolute serenity, until you know the backstory be Absolute serenity, until you know the backstory behind these photos 😏

We just knew we needed to check out this famous water temple before we left Bali 😍 

We woke up in what felt like the middle of the night to drive a couple hours and try to make it to the the temple before sunrise… Once we got there I picked out the most disheveled (aka photogenic) boat, against the suggestion of the temple worker who really wanted us to take a super fancy swan boat 🦢 (presumably so we wouldn’t end up sinking in the 12” of water during our little excursion).

We then proceeded to run aground half a dozen times in the few minutes we were paddling around the temple, while our two very overtired kids continued to fight over whose turn it was to paddle, and Bodhi accidentally whacked Liv with the paddle no less than three times. 

All in all it was a great morning, but a wonderful reminder to us all that things aren’t always as perfect as they seem on social media 😉

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A 30-second summary of our 2022 adventures through A 30-second summary of our 2022 adventures through Mentawai, Java and Bali 🇮🇩 Stay tuned for the full travel films on YouTube! 

Can’t wait to see what 2023 has in store for our little family 🛩️🌏🇯🇵🇮🇳😉 Any suggestions for must see off-the-beaten-path destinations in Asia that we can include in our plans? 

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