King of Thailand birthday
Today, 5th of December, Thai people celebrate Wan Chalerm Prachon Phansa, the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, which in the country ...
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HSIPAW – A PEACEFUL STOPOVER
We leave Mandalay reluctantly but with the desire to explore what here they branded ‘the way to China’. The bus is ...
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SHAN STATE – KAHTAIN FESTIVAL PART 3
I sleep 11 hours in a row and I do not even hear the 5am litany. After a breakfast of homemade cookies and tea in a Chinese teahouse, ...
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SHAN STATE – TREK TO THE MONASTERY – PART 2
I wake up with a start, it’s still dark outside the window. I look at the phone: it’s 5am! Extremely noisy speakers that ...
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FESTIVALS OF THAILAND – LOY KRATHONG
November sees one the best and most magical festivals Thailand has to offer. Loy Krathong is held every year on the full moon of the ...
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Loving Andaman Sea Cleaning Day
Ao Nang, in Krabi province, is, or should be, a common heritage for both Thai and foreign residents, and for the thousands of tourists ...
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Huay To Waterfall Trek in Krabi
With no prior commitments for the day, it presented the ideal moment to hop on my bike and embark on an adventure to Huay To Waterfall, ...
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SHAN STATE – ARRIVAL IN NAMSHAN – Part 1
After leaving Mandalay in direction north-east, we had a pit-stop of a few days in Hsipaw, a small outpost town situated on the way to ...
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Padang Earthquake
On October 5th, 2009 I traveled to Padang, the capital of West Sumatra and the focal point of relief efforts for the victims of the ...
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Lory and the monitor lizard
Lory is not a squeamish kind of woman. She was raised on a farm, riding horses, milking cows and selling calves to the market for ...
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The Terung Dayak
Do you know Sushi and what country it comes from? I guess this kind of question is pointless since even a little boy knows that Sushi ...
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Huay To Waterfall – Krabi
Huay To waterfall, with its five-tiered cascades and pools, is by far Khao Phanom Bencha national park’s most visited site, especially ...
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INLE LAKE – HITCHHIKING – PART 3
Today I wish to rely mainly on fate and chance, as I often do when I travel. I fill the daily backpack with snacks and fruit from the ...
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INLE LAKE – BY BICYCLE AROUND THE LAKE PART 2
Despite being a tourist town, Nyaungshwe is still the main trading hub for the local villages, as well as the departure point for craft ...
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Chinese shadows
When I was a kid, I often played with some of my mates, and one of the many games consisted in projecting on a wall, with the help of a ...
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INLE LAKE TRIP – Part 1
Inle Lake, located strategically in the heart of Myanmar’s Shan State, is a shore-less expanse of water and marshes 20km long and 10km ...
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