Dubai - Taiwan - Vietnam

Heading home…… We savored our last breakfast until the last minute. We relaxed by the pool until 2:00 p.m., had a light meal at the restaurant, showered, and waited for our...

Today, the most important words in Vietnamese -> Hello/Good day = Xin chào pronounced "sin chow" Thank you = Càm ón pronounced as slow "kam un" The kitesurfers are already...

Relax Day at the hotel: Means enjoying a hearty breakfast, relaxing by the pool, at the beach, in the spa, and with cocktails. The sun is shining, the flag for the sea is red,...

Today is golf day, so we're having breakfast early again. Afterwards, we went to the pool for a short while. Since the flag was red in the morning, Carolin and I went into the...

Today we visited the local market with the hotel's chef. It's a bustling place where you can find everything - fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, clothes, and even get a haircut on...

The breakfast is delicious again, especially with good prosecco - it makes starting the day so much easier! The only uncomfortable thing is the time, as breakfast is always over...

A brief review of yesterday - we were all glad that we didn't have to pay for this tour and only had to invest time. We did receive a very interesting piece of information...

Today got up early again, and this time it worked with the pick-up for the now free day tour to the Mekong Delta. The journey takes about 2 hours, our tour guide David (they use...

Another adventure that was not planned happened to us early this morning. We were supposed to go on our 2-day Mekong Delta Tour, including the floating markets, today. The...

Today again devoted ourselves extensively to our breakfast. Again covered our liquid needs with hot and cold coffee, Prosecco, fresh coconut, mango smoothie. Then to the post...

The breakfast was in the same league as the room. Nothing was missing - from good Prosecco to Egg Benedict and filleted oranges and avocado salad. Smoothie and juices and fresh...

Today our travel group has expanded -> Carolin and Karolina (Carolin's classmate) are joining us for the second part of our trip to Vietnam after finishing their study...

Today started off relaxed, we took the metro to Dream Mall. It's a huge shopping center with a Ferris wheel on the 10th floor and several other adventure units for kids. Uwe and...

Today is New Year's Eve and the sky is bright blue and very warm. The city is very quiet, hardly any cars and scooters on the road. That should change again in the early...

Today we went golfing and the adventure began at the check-in. The time and number of people were correct, but the lady wanted to tell us something that we didn't understand. A...

Good News in the Morning - my visa for Vietnam is here - hooray 👏 Since it was very windy again today, we decided to take the express bus back to Kaohsiung earlier - our last...

Today we rented a scooter to drive a short distance in the national park. We visited Elanoubi Park with the lighthouse and the circular path. There are sculptures with steel...

Today we took the TRA train to Kaohsiung and then the express bus to Kenting. Carolin stayed in Kaohsiung to take her last Mandarin exam and attend the last 3 days of on-site...

In Tainan, there are approximately 1,000 temples, so they are no longer numbered consecutively. There is a temple in almost every street and alley, big and small, and each one...

Today we visited a beautiful and large temple called Baohu. On the way there, we needed to refuel but couldn't find a gas station. During the drive, I had said that we didn't...

Today we wanted to go around the lake with E-Scooter/Bike. It looks more like a vehicle for retirees, but it was super comfortable and above all we didn't have to exert...

Today we continued to Taichung in the west of Taiwan with the HSR (High Speed Rail). We rented a car again right at the train station for the onward journey to Sun-Moon Lake....

Today started off on the wrong foot. Our hosts were supposed to order a taxi for us to the car rental station at 08:15, but they didn't get in touch, so Uwe tried his luck at...

Today we met Carolin at Taipei Main Station, as she will be traveling with us for a few days (thanks to online lectures!). Today we took a 2.5-hour TRA train ride to Hualien....

Today, let's take a look at the daily life of garbage collection in Taiwan: Gabage collection takes place 5 days a week (morning and evening at the same time) and is announced...

Ni hao - Good day, hello and Xie xie (pronounced sche sche) - thank you are our most important words for the day. Masks are only required indoors, so we have stocked up on...

We arrived back to reality with this flight (2.5 hours). Big plane, with only about 40 people and economy class for small people. Our knees hit the front seat and we're not the...

Suitcases are packed, and we're off to Frankfurt Airport again with Deutsche Bahn. This time, we were lucky and there were no delays or cancellations - everything was great....

Burger

Today is all about relaxing. We had a long and indulgent breakfast -> Splashing in the pool and enjoying the sun. And then we ended up negotiating the price for the jetski...