“Let’s take the Reunification Express from Saigon to Hanoi!” “How far is that?” (Long pause. Google maps search.) “1600 kilometers.” It sounded like a crazy idea at first. The Reunification Express. An old train, slowly making its way through mountains and rice paddies and along amazing cliffs, revealing hidden beaches. Romantic maybe, but crazy. Even Continue reading
In the last two weeks of September until the first weekend of October, more than six million people from all over the world will be heading to Munich for the famous Oktoberfest. They will drink way too much beer, eat copious amounts of German food, get dizzy on the rides (or just get dizzy from Continue reading
When the decorated streets are so packed with people they have to be marked as one way walking streets; every bar, restaurant and shop sells take away beers and cocktails (mojito anyone?) or snacks on the street, and on every corner, there’s live music or some other kind of event going on – from 10 in Continue reading
The highlight of a castell, the traditional Catalonian human towers, is when the little kids put on their helmets and quickly climb all the way to the top of the castell, looking fearless and agile like little monkeys, while the crowd watches nervously. The group’s musicians, the “Gralles”, play the typical castells tune. The crowd Continue reading
“Sea to table in 10 minutes!” is how my travel partner very accurately summarised our experience at the Kep Crab Market. At this amazing little sea town in Southern Cambodia, you can eat fresh crab either right at the market itself or at one of the many restaurants surrounding it – my favorite: Holy Crab Continue reading
Before I set out on my three month South East Asia trip, I read loads of packing lists by other bloggers. I’d done plenty of traveling before, but usually either short trips or staying in one place for several months. Traveling for three months while moving to a new place every few days was new Continue reading
Do you have a few days in Siem Reap, Cambodia and are wondering what there is to do there? Not sure how to organize your stay around the temple visits to Angkor Wat? Read along. Siem Reap is a great place, and you should plan in some time away from the temples as well to Continue reading
As my travel partner and I walked through the streets of district 1 on our fist night in Saigon, in search of street food, we laughed at the street food sushi cart. Sushi, raw fish, prepared on the street? “That’s a whole other level of brave”, we laughingly dismissed it. By the second night, we Continue reading
One of my favourite things about traveling is discovering new dishes and new taste combinations. I’d heard great things about Thai and Vietnamese cuisine before our South East Asia trip, and had been to restaurants serving Vietnamese and Thai food all over the world, but I knew next to nothing about Cambodian, or Khmer, cuisine. Continue reading
Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples are undoubtedly Cambodia’s number one tourist attraction, and if you’re like me, you won’t be disappointed. They’re majestic, magical, and surreal all at the same time. Angkor was the ancient capital city of the Khmer empire. It comprised over a thousand temples, some of which have been restored, some Continue reading
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