I was looking for some photos that can prove those places are being visited by OP though its easy to send some pictures caming from the internet (i am not saying that this is a lie just wanna find more realistic)
I doubt you can find proofs for that since op didn't post anything we could base on, like if they posted some pics, we could've done reverse image search. Hence why I could only dug infos about if these places really exist and if they're really accepting bitcoin.
I do understand your point tho, also crossed my mind. The fact that its all text bothers me, but I'm not gonna jump to conclusions unless I have a strong evidence. and this post made me aware of these places, too so that's a good thing, but ofc I wouldn't like it if op lied.
It would've been mentioned if they paid bitcoin directly for their whole trip since that's another great story, I doubt the op in that post would overlook it.
They're similar in a sense that both "trip" and "bitcoin" played a big part but I wouldn't say "almost the same".