Travel to the MAXimum

Travel to the MAXimum

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Welcome to my blog about my working holiday experience 2016-17! Follow me on Instagram: max_n_39

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The Very Last Days Of My Trip

They were all gone. My travelmates from Germany and Denmark had gone further down Vietnam and there I went again on my own. I was in Ninh Binh, the old Vietnamese capital. I...

Cat Ba And Halong Bay - Great Adventures With Great Company

„Welcome to the bus to Cat Ba!“ That’s what one of the guides said when we had all taken our seats in the center of Hanoi and were ready to go to the island in the East of the...

Welcome To Hanoi

So there it was, the capital of Vietnam: Hanoi. After sitting on the bus for hours and hours, I finally arrived there in the afternoon and started exploring the city right away....

Goodbye Lao, Hello Vietnam

After a fantastic time in Luang Prabang, I headed to Nong Khiaw in the northeastern part of Laos. According to the travel agency, the bus ride was supposed to be three hours,...

Beautiful Northern Lao

So there it was. Vang Vieng, the party capital of Lao. And just when I was about to enter this fun filled place, I had to struggle with my vicious ankle injury. I arrived there...

Thakhek Loop - 4 Days On A Scooter

After leaving Don Det, one of the legendary 4000 islands, I spent the entire next day on the bus to Thakhek, a city in central Lao, right next to Thailand - the countries are...

Goodbye Cambodia, Hello Lao - Happy And Sad Moments

Hey folks! It’s quite a while ago but I would still like to tell you about what I did during my last days in Cambodia before going straight to Lao. After leaving Kampot which...

435 Days Abroad – My Personal Highlights and Review (Part 1)

Hey folks! First of all, I wish everyone a Happy New Year! I hope you had a great start into 2018 and wish you all the best for the next 12 months 😊🍀 Anyway, I decided to...

Four Days In Kampot – What A Wonderful Time

Hey folks! After a long last night on Koh Rong, it was time to leave the island and head to my next destination in Cambodia. I took the boat in the morning, arrived in...

Angkor Wat, Beaches and Party

Angkor Wat group picture (f.l.t.r. Pedro, George, Diandra, me)

Island Time In Thailand

Hey folks! ✌ My overday stay in Bangkok had come to an end and in the late evening, I took a bus to the South of Thailand. The ride was once again extremely comfortable but...

Great Times In Chiang Mai And Pai

Hey folks! ✌ It's time for a new post! I know I'm a bit late, but at least I'm trying to catch up a little bit 😉 As I told you in my last post, I started my Asia adventure in...

Welcome To Thailand! My Time in Bangkok

Hey folks! As I already said in the end of my last post, the next stop of my trip was going to be Asia – Bangkok, to be more precise, one of the most famous towns in the world...

Sydney, Volume 2 - The Perfect Stopover

Hey folks! After my time in New Zealand, I did not feel like going home at all, so I decided to make a few stops in between, the first of them being Sydney. I had already been...

Skiing, New Friends And Fun – My Winter in New Zealand

Hey folks! After living and working in Murchison for eight weeks, I still had a bit more than three weeks left to see what this amazing country looks like in winter. I mean,...

Traffic Controller - Stop Spending Money, Go For The Best Backpacker Job

Hey folks! Last weekend, my time as a traffic controller came to an end after eight long weeks of work. I stayed in Murchison all this time which makes this small village the...

My Australia Experience - Review And Closing Words

Hey folks! I've got some good news for you: After publishing 39 articles on the greatest adventure of my life in German, I decided to write my first ever blog entry in English....

Cairns - My Final Destination

Ein allerletzter Stopp stand mir auf dieser, meiner ersten Reise durch Australien, also noch bevor: Cairns. Im Dunkeln kam ich dort an, fand meinen Weg zum Hostel und ging nach...

Mission Beach - A Secret Paradise

Time flies! After leaving Magnetic Island, I went to Mission Beach. Before arriving, I never thought that I would enjoy my time there more than any other place I had been to in...

Magnetic Island - Magnet For Wildlife and Nature

Next stop for me after Airlie Beach was Magnetic Island. After a four-hour bus ride, I arrived in Townsville and immediately boarded the ferry that would take me to the island....

Wings Whitsundays Sailing Trip

As written in the last report, after saying goodbye to Caite, Karen, Kathryn, and Niamh, we went straight to the port of Airlie, which was our meeting point for the sailing...

A beautiful no man's land and a joyful reunion

After leaving Rainbow Beach, I was supposed to reach my next stop after midnight, which is somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I think that pretty much sums it up 😉 Anyway,...

An annoying illness and a great adventure

As announced in the last report, I went to Noosa on Maundy Thursday afternoon from Brisbane, where there is a large national park with large forests and many rocky coasts. I...

Beach, local wildlife and AFC Champions League

From morning until noon, it went from Byron Bay to the next stop on my 33-day route: Surfers Paradise, a suburb of the Gold Coast. Here you can do one thing really well: spend...

Byron Bay - beautiful time in the deep east

On day two in Byron Bay, I had an activity on the agenda, namely kayaking with dolphins. I spontaneously booked the tour in the morning and was picked up by a shuttle in front...

Sydney - the nearest major city

City trip 2.0 was my plan just a few days after leaving New Zealand. Since my flight to Sydney started early in the morning, I also spent the night at Melbourne Airport. I...

Melbourne - my premiere on Australian soil

So on March 29th, the time had come and I temporarily left New Zealand behind. In the late evening my plane took off on time in Christchurch and after a flight of almost four...

My March in Methven

Hello lovelies, As announced in the last report, I recently spent some time in Methven in the heart of Canterbury. Even more time than originally planned. I originally wanted...

Aoraki - Gateway to Paradise

Kia ora koutou ✌ 😊 Continuing as promised with my report on my experiences in Mount Cook National Park. Enjoy reading 😊 Wednesday, 22 February The next Stray bus was supposed...

Lots of movement and nature in Otago

Hey guys 😊 After working in Clinton for 1.5 weeks, I wanted to do a bit of traveling before starting my next job in Methven. I wanted to focus on two places that I had already...