Paradise beaches, swimming with Manta rays, and cave temple The most popular ferries to the paradise island of Nusa Penida are in the cities of Sanur (closer to Denpasar airport) and Kusamba. In high season, the island is completely overrun, but we arrived at the end of March, and we were lucky with everything, with …
Bali in the off-season: beaches, rain, hindu temples and moon ceremonies After the Philippines we decided to visit Bali. Why Bali? Well, Denpasar, the capital, is a big airport hub, and it’s simple and cheap to fly to and from different places, especially to New Zealand, where we were going afterwards. Bali has only 2 …
Water therapy with sharks and turtles, islands, volcanoes and much more! We had high expectations for the Philippines; we imagined white sandy beaches, blue clear water, and all of it would be only for us 🙂 Reality of course is a bit different, since the road to the beaches lies mainly through muddy noisy cities, …
Georgetown street art, Tea plantations and Rainforests Route1. Langkawi island (1h30 by boat from Koh Lipe, Thailand)2. Penang Island, Georgetown (3h by boat from Langkawi)3. Cameroon Highlands, Tana Rata (20 min ferry + 5h bus from Penang)4. Kuala Lumpur (4 hours by bus from Tana Rata) Visit time : February 2019, 11 daysBudget: € 24,4 …
Pnomh Penh, Kampot, Sivanoukville and the sea 🙂 We said goodbye (temporarily) to our friends and took a bus to the capital, Pnomh Penh. It’s a big metropolitan city, so there’s not much to find here for our tastes. The biggest “attraction” that people come for is a visit to the infamous Killing Fields at …
Angkor temples and Khmer Empire. We entered Cambodia over land via the Stung Treng border crossing. A lovely place! Known as maybe the most corrupt border in South-East Asia, we luckily knew beforehand what was waiting for us. After fighting with the border officials for a while and getting our passports thrown back at us …
The journey into the south of Laos began with a small adventure. All day long we were in a bus from Hue in Vietnam to Savannakhet in Laos. The bus did double duty as a truck, and it was loaded to the brim with cargo. Everything, including the empty seats, the corridor and the space …
Having settled in the regular night bus, we went to Dalat, which is located in the mountains, about 1500 meters above sea level. Dalat was built by the French to flee the hot weather in Saigon (today Ho Chi Minh City). The nature is beautiful, with evergreen forests, numerous waterfalls and lakes. Dalat was a …