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The ultimate spa day in Thailand

By | May 16th, 2016|Categories: Asia, Thailand, Trips & Activities|

Oasis: it literally means a green spot in the desert but is also used to describe a peaceful area in your everyday lives. After spending [...]

Ella, Ella, Ella

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: Asia, Sri Lanka, Trips & Activities|

We ride through the rolling hills full of round, green, bushes. As far as I can look I see tea plantations. We’re up in central Sri [...]

Up in the air

By | February 16th, 2016|Categories: Asia, Sri Lanka, Trips & Activities|

The alarm goes (again) at 05:00 AM. Back home I could still be dancing in a club at this hour, especially together with my four [...]

The last Mentawai

By | February 4th, 2016|Categories: Asia, Culture, INDONESIA, Trips & Activities|

Sixty miles West from Padang, West Sumatra, there is an isolated jungle paradise called Siberut Island. It is part of the Mentawai Archipelago and home [...]

PHOTOGRAPHY: Off the beaten track, local life Bukit Lawang

By | January 24th, 2016|Categories: Asia, INDONESIA, PHOTOPGRAPHY, Trips & Activities|

Bukit Lawang, a small village in the middle of the jungle of Northern Sumatra. Well known by tourists for its trekking’s to meet the orangutans. [...]

Sumatra; Bukit Lawang

By | January 21st, 2016|Categories: Asia, INDONESIA, Trips & Activities|

I am chuckling on the backseat of the car. I think back of the first story I heard about Bukit Lawang and how much I [...]

Taiwan’s best roads; highway 11, 9 and 14

By | January 14th, 2016|Categories: Asia, Taiwan, Trips & Activities|

The most interesting roads to cycle in Taiwan. Not into cycling? The same goes up for driving a car, motorbike or hitch hiking. Highway No. 11 [...]

The Great Wall of China

By | November 2nd, 2015|Categories: Asia, China, Trips & Activities|

It is grey en voight outside, a red, orange autumn panaroma is passing my view. On my left and right side are steep mountain peaks. [...]

Gobi Desert Mongolia

By | October 26th, 2015|Categories: Asia, Mongolia, Trips & Activities|

Diagonal above me are the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.  I’m looking up at millions of glittering stars and see the Milky way across the [...]

Seven must do’s in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

By | October 17th, 2015|Categories: Asia, Mongolia, Trips & Activities|Tags: , |

Zaisan Memorial South of the city, on top of Zaisan hill you will find a masterpiece of socialist architecture build by the Russians. The memorial [...]

The Tsaatan, the last reindeer families in Northern Mongolia

By | October 16th, 2015|Categories: Mongolia, Trips & Activities|

Through a heavy snowstorm, the night bus takes us from Ulaanbaatar to Mörön. We are on our way to the Northern highland of Mongolia, adjoining Russia, [...]

FILM: Trip to the Tsaatan in North Mongolia

By | October 6th, 2015|Categories: Asia, Film, Mongolia, Trips & Activities|Tags: , |

Into the wild and the road to the end of the world. That’s how our journey to the North of Mongolia felt. Eager to visit [...]