vollwietweg part II

Am Morgen des 17. März bekamen wir also ganz nebenbei mit, dass Malaysia ab dem 18. in "lockdown" geht, um so die Ausbreitung des Corona Virus zu entschleunigen. Wir versuchten...

Wir glauben so schwer ist es uns noch nie gefallen Ereignisse, die erst vor einer Woche stattgefunden haben, zu rekapitulieren. Seither ist wirklich viel passiert. Aber wir...

On the day of our departure from Indonesia, we set off quite early to the bus station 5km away, as we had to "check in" at 7 o'clock. In Indonesia, there are these huge bus...

Nachdem wir uns schweren Herzens von Lisi und Julie verabschiedet hatten, ging es für uns am nächsten Morgen sehr früh zum Flughafen von Manado. Manado ist nicht gerade ein sehr...

The last week on Sulawesi started for us with the journey from Tomohon to the island of Bunaken to meet up with Lisi and Julie again. The journey was quite easy. Right next to...

So we managed to get onto the ferry, which was supposed to take us to Gorontalo in a few hours. It took us a while to find a somewhat comfortable place where it wasn't too...

about Tentena to paradise - guest article by Lisi After a 14-hour bus ride, which initially took us through the highlands with fir trees and then past countless exotic mango,...

Guest post by Julie Selamat Pagi Makassar... Selamat Malam Rantepao/ Toraja Tana! After we arrived in the big city and had our first encounters with the tropical nature and...

After just under 1 1/2 hours of flight at a very low altitude, we finally arrived in Makassar, the largest city in Sulawesi, and took the bus to the city center. We were very...

To do something more active on Flores, we decided to visit the Kelimutu volcano on our way to Maumere. We took a Bemo (public minibus) to the village of Moni, located on the...

After our vacation 'at home' was over, we headed back home! In the middle of the night, we boarded our plane to Singapore in Zurich. Due to a technical defect with the ABS, the...

Over half a year ago, we planned a surprise visit home during a bout of homesickness and booked a round-trip flight from Bali to Zurich. And so, on the 23rd of December, it was...

We continued our journey to Indonesia from Taipei. Before landing in Bali, we had a several-hour layover in Manila, where we spent most of the time trying out the limited...

Tomato beef noodles

Back in Taipei, we realized that summer and the warm temperatures for this year are probably over. So we unpacked our long clothes again and explored the beloved city and...

Unser letztes Ziel in Taiwan, bevor es zurück nach Taipei gehen sollte, war die Stadt Hualien an der Ostküste. Um von Kaohsiung dorthin zu gelangen nahmen wir eine lange...

After our short island adventure, it was time to return to the 'mainland'. On the way to the bus station, we were intercepted by numerous taxi drivers - by the way, the first...

Weil wir ja schon lange nicht mehr auf einer Insel waren (haha), war unser nächstes Ziel die kleine Insel Liuqiu im Südwesten von Taiwan, die wir ganz gemütlich mit nicht einmal...

Nachdem wir sooo lange Zeit in der Natur verbrachten war es wieder mal Zeit für etwas Stadtleben. So brachte uns der Zug nach Tainan. Tainan ist die älteste Stadt Taiwans und...

As mentioned before, our next destination was the famous and touristy area of Alishan. Besides the famous tea, this area located at an average altitude of about 1500m offers a...

To get to our next destination, we first had to go to the neighboring city of Changhua. It took us about an hour for the 12km journey (city buses in Taiwan really cover a lot,...

From Taichung, we wanted to make a short detour to the small town of Lukang. So we drove the 27km to this little town in the morning, which only took 2 hours, checked into a...

From Sun Moon Lake we continued by bus to the city of Taichung. This industrial city used to be synonymous with "Made in Taiwan". Many companies have since moved their...

From Taipei, we took a bus to the so-called Sun Moon Lake, which owes its name to its shape, which with a lot of imagination represents the shape of the moon and the sun....

Our flight left Seoul on time at 22:40 and we arrived in Taipei shortly after midnight. So far so good, if we hadn't booked our room from this day on and therefore could only...

We didn't know exactly what to expect in terms of food in Korea, since we hadn't really looked into it before. We had never tried Korean food before either. In Western...

Our last two nights in South Korea were spent in Gyeongju, the so-called Museum without Walls. Even though there were many different attractions in the surrounding area, we...

Nach einer kurzen Busfahrt von Busan, kamen wir gegen Mittag an unserem nächsten Ziel - Daegu - an. Die viertgrößte Stadt Koreas soll eine sehr beliebte Stadt für internationale...

Unser nächster Halt für die nächsten 4 Nächte war die zweitgrößte und am Meer gelegene Stadt Busan. Ein Hostel Angebot zog uns in eine nicht sehr charmante Tourigegend,...

Very happy to be reunited, we embraced each other on Friday morning at the airport in Seoul. Although we talked almost every day, there was a lot to catch up on, and the...