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We haven't been in touch for a while, but don't worry, we're fine. After a few fun days at the water festival, we've started something like a normal routine. Robert is really...

In Southeast Asia, it seems that the New Year is celebrated at a different time in every country. In Laos, it is in mid-April. It is a wild mixture of tradition, family visits...

We are back in Laos, we have been looking forward to this for a long time because: we fell in love with this country in 2023, will have a permanent home here again and ...

Five stages and a rest day for our sore bottoms brought us back to our starting point in Kota Kinabalu. We drove for countless kilometers through palm oil plantations, in the...

A crazy nature with a wealth of species that starts with the sea eagle in the morning, is accompanied on the way to the monkeys by Chinese little egrets, monitor lizards,...

We have visited many national parks, protected landscape areas and the like in the last few months. The projects were not always as well integrated into the community as the...

It feels a little like being expelled from paradise as we set off from the diving resort to “Kinabalu National Park”. Mount Kinabalu with its 4095 m has already shown itself to...

Our time in Malaysia has an absolute highlight: we receive a visit from the now grown-up but very much missed child. I'm so excited as we wait for her at the airport in Kuala...

We always met people along the way who, like us, travel for a long time. A surprisingly large proportion of us have a fixed travel plan, often with flights that have been booked...

We spent the last few days in the south of Thailand, on Koh Lanta. The island below Krabi lies in the Adaman Sea in the Indian Ocean and is predominantly populated by Muslims....

We haven't heard from us for a while, so here's an update and to get to the most important point right away. We are fine. Swinging towards the sunset The parents have landed...

First of all, we really like Bangkok. By now, we can also be city guides, public transportation guides, or guides for street food, quiet places, and parks, but Bangkok truly is...

The town lies in a tranquil valley where rice terraces are surrounded by steep karst mountains. Above, rugged gray under a bright blue sky, below, shimmering lime green with a...

Thousands of people are currently taking to the streets in Germany to fight for democracy. Meanwhile, we have been traveling in the socialist People's Republics of Vietnam and...

We hopped from the Mekong to Thailand, after a few flight confusions due to storms in Germany, we picked up our parents and drove back to Laos, this time to the south, with...

We were in the old Laotian royal city for almost three weeks. When we were planning our trip, it quickly became clear that Luang Prabang would be one, if not the destination. We...

Today is a sunny day in the Laotian royal city of Luang Prabang. At seven o'clock the children walked, cycled or rode their mopeds to school, the market was already busy, the...

Still a little cold from the last few days on the moped, we went to Cat Ba, the only inhabited island in Ha Long Bay and largely a national park. Since the Vietnamese winter...

We have become very fond of riding a moped and our bottoms have also become more durable and can now last longer. Our route leads from the big city of Vinh via the birthplace of...

We continue north, over the Hai Van Pass with a stopover in the old royal city of Hue to Vinh, which now resembles a Soviet test-tube city after being completely destroyed by...

5 a.m., it's dark, it's raining, the night bus dumps us on the highway in no time, the taxi driver accidentally drops our jackets in the dirt and the hotel doesn't have a room...

In addition to the cities of the highlands, we are of course looking for peace and greenery. A small national park almost on the border with Cambodia attracted us with trekking....

After many weeks in the lowlands of Cambodia and the Mekong Delta, we are now well above sea level again. In the south central highlands around Da Lat and Buon Ma Thout there is...

The Mekong is the twelve longest river in the world and flows over 4000km through six countries. We have already spent a lot of time with him on our moped tour through Cambodia,...

After our adventure in Cambodia, the journey continues to Vietnam. Shortly before the border, our bus stopped for lunch, and all passports were sent by moped to the border for...

We drove through Cambodia on the moped for three weeks: 2,186km from the capital Phnom Penh south to the Gulf of Thailand and to where the pepper grows, to Kampot; then north...

When someone asks us whether Angkor Wat is worth a trip, the answer is a resounding yes! Library of Preah Khan The city of Siem Reap, which lies at the gates of the...

When my legs were long enough I got a moped, like many country children. It was great to be mobile, I hated driving to school in the dark and it rained occasionally. Gravel...

Mangroves grow on the edge of the sea and are inspiring because they can cope with salt water, ebb and flow and somehow also people. We have already looked for mangrove forests...

We've been on the road for many weeks, which brings with it new pictures, changing places, means of transport and beds and now it was our turn to digest it all on the south...