The family in their first week of Thailand. Photo/Supplied
A family of six from Papamoa have taken on the world for a year with just six 35-litre backpacks between them.
The Stokes family left New Zealand on December 7 to country hop through South-East Asia for four months, before heading to Europe, the USA and Canada for the same
amount of time.
Sophie Stokes, her partner Carl Dickens, and their children Kasha, 12, Triton, 7, Ronin, 6, and Cove, 3 each left New Zealand with three pairs of shorts, three short-sleeve tops, one long-sleeve top, one set of pyjamas and a few other essentials.
Since their departure they had landed safely in Bangkok where they spent eight nights before heading to the Thai coast of Pattaya.
"Bangkok was a baptism of fire, a contrast of cultures and a clash of rich versus poor," Ms Stokes said.
