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As a conclusion in Xinjiang, we wanted to go to the mountains once more, specifically to the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County on the Pamir Plateau, a remote area near the...

Initially, we intended to travel across the Taklamakan to Hotan, allegedly there was supposed to be a bus from Kuqa, but according to information at the bus station, such a...

Next, we continued to Kuqa, located 650 km away - once the center of the Buddhist kingdom of Qiuci, today a relatively small Uyghur city. A good 10 hours overnight by train, and...

We have finally made it to Xinjiang! A region that has primarily been in the headlines due to conflicts between the Chinese government and the Muslim Uyghur minority. To summarize...

From Zhangye to Dunhuang, it was a short hop compared to the previous train journey - 600 km and 4 hours by train. The landscape became increasingly desert-like. Along the...

If you want to enter a train station in China, you must first show your passport, and it will be checked whether you have a train ticket. Additionally, the luggage is scanned...

From democratic China, we continued to socialist China. A country that we hadn't even considered at the start of our journey, but the now simplified entry (30 days without a visa)...

We are so busy traveling and processing our beautiful, exciting, and strange experiences that our reporting has suffered quite a bit. Nevertheless, the rest of Western Australia,...

When we picked up our rental car, we encountered an unpleasant surprise. We were informed that we were not allowed to drive any further north than Carnarvon, and that the location...

Happily united, we took a super cheap flight from Denpasar to Perth. There was first a happy reunion, or rather a first meeting, with Marike's cousin Nils, who set off to travel...

We were on our way to Bromo and Ijen when Marike received a message and decided very last minute to return to Germany for 10 days. Therefore, we changed our original plan of...

From Malang, we continued eastward to Lumajang, where we stayed at a small hostel in the middle of nowhere. In the area, many signs pointed towards various waterfalls, but we...

After we were all healthy again and had adjusted to the new flow on the island of Java, we continued by train eastward to Malang. The infrastructure in Java is significantly...

Snake fruit - you'll recover quickly with this

We continued south towards the coast to Padang, which is a two-hour journey away. The city itself doesn’t offer much, but the real destination was the Mentawai, an archipelago...

After we recovered from the bus ride, we started exploring Bukittinggi. Here, we immediately noticed that we had left the predominantly Christian area, and the Muslim lifestyle...

On the way south to Lake Toba, there were some interesting stops, so we booked (also due to lack of alternatives) a private transport again. First, we headed to Dokan, a small...

Our shared taxi took us relatively comfortably onward to Berastagi, even though the roads were really not great and we took almost 5 hours for 130 km. Berastagi is a popular...

From Medan, we took a taxi to Bukit Lawang - a winding journey over bumpy roads through many small villages, packed with mopeds, trucks filled with people, palm oil fruits, or...

Off to Sumatra! Our supposedly short one-hour flight from KL turned out to be a day-long journey - first, it was delayed (luckily we noticed it just before we were about to leave...

Kuala Lumpur, a city that tries to attract visitors with the slogan: 'Luxury at affordable prices'. While we had a good time overall, the city fell short of our expectations and,...

Upon arriving by train, we took the ferry and crossed over to the island to the district of George Town. Everything was very straightforward and well-coordinated. After very...

After Ipoh, we made a detour to Lenggong. This place crossed our path randomly in a travel blog or something like it as a footnote, and hardly anyone we told had ever heard of it....

Cermin Lake

We continued on - easily by bus over mountain roads with wild curves to Tanah Rata in the so-called Cameron Highlands, named after their British cartographer. This area was only...

On a psychedelic space bus, which made any pill-taking unnecessary after 10 minutes of looking at curtains and ceiling decor, we headed towards the Malaysian peninsula. While...

Finally Asia! As beautiful as the Americas were, we were more than ready for a new world and excited. The flight with Korean Air was a great start, not only very affordable but...

First, we got rid of the rental car the next morning and checked into a hotel in the downtown area. Then it was off to the hustle and bustle of San Francisco, a city that has...

From Lake Tahoe, we traveled along a beautiful mountain route to Sacramento, where we visited the Capitol and took a very short stroll through the city. However, as we found the...

With only two weeks' time in the USA (which was all our travel health insurance allowed), there was no time to relax, and so we immediately headed out early the next day from...