Südostasien 2016

After completing our last long bus ride from Siem Reap to Bangkok, we took two more days to relax in Thailand with good food, massages, and shopping (for Zora). To get used to...

Angkor Wat

As mentioned in the last blog, we ended up back in Laos and specifically in Pakse. The city itself doesn't have much to offer, but it is beautifully situated on the Mekong and...

After we clarified the food question in the last blog, we return to traveling. Unfortunately, our two weeks in Vietnam are already over and because the internet in Laos did not...

If you're worried about what we're eating and drinking all the time, we've put together some photos for you. That's right, we're not starving and we don't have to thirst. :-) ...

Our (for now) 11 days in Laos flew by and we only visited the 3 places Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, and Vientiane, as well as their respective surroundings. We spent the first few...

After 3 weeks in Myanmar, we had to recover from the many impressions and traveling in Chiang Mai. We managed this quite well with the pool in our hotel, Thai massages, and the...

Before we write about our experiences in Bagan and Mandalay, here are some hopefully interesting and funny facts about Myanmar: - Myanmar has its own time zone (GMT +6:30). -...

Shwedagon Pagoda

What we will not forget so quickly about Bangkok are the traffic jams (sometimes we would have been faster on foot than by taxi, but the air conditioning in the taxi is very...

To get from Nusa Lembongan to the small islands in front of Lombok (Gili Islands), we had to ride the fast boat over the sea for almost 2 hours. Luckily, the weather was...

The journey towards Bali began with a train ride from Yogyakarta towards Mount Bromo, which was quite long and cramped (in Indonesia, people usually travel with very little...

After Borneo, we experienced a small culture shock in Singapore: out of the jungle...into the city, which is sometimes rather unnaturally modern and exaggerated! In any case,...

Meanwhile, we're back from the various jungle expeditions and spending our last night in Borneo before heading to Singapore tomorrow. The first jungle expedition took us to...

After the flight towards Singapore and 12 hours layover until the connecting flight to Kuching (we survived this time thanks to massage chairs and hourly hotel), we have arrived...

Liebe Zuhausebleibende Am Samstag ist es so weit und wir fliegen über Singapur nach Kuching (Malaysia) auf Borneo. Wir können es kaum erwarten, auch wenn unser Reisegepäck...