Trip: South East Asia
There are [17] stories from my trip: South East Asia
SINGAPORE | Saturday, 27 Mar 2010 | Views [851] | Comments [2]
Ok. So it’s been a while.
We’ve been on holiday. Somehow we went from being travelers to becoming lazy
vacationers. Right at this very moment, we are in Australia and have turned right
back to being proper backpackers.
Ok, this is what we’ve
been ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Saturday, 27 Mar 2010 | Photo Gallery
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LAOS | Wednesday, 17 Feb 2010 | Views [1761] | Comments [1]
We have
been running a bit behind with our updates.
Over the past month, we have left the beach in Cambodia, passed through Siem Reap to check out
the temples of Angkor, done a quick stopover in Bangkok
and travelled through Laos.
We ... Read more >
LAOS | Wednesday, 17 Feb 2010 | Photo Gallery
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CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 2 Feb 2010 | Views [1159] | Comments [1]
Phnom Penh Phnom Penh has a bit of a sordid history… We spent a few depressing days looking at the killing fields (and seeing the movie from 1984, which is good!) and also visited the school turned torture prison, S-21. Before coming here we read ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 23 Jan 2010 | Views [704] | Comments [1]
Carbon footprints…
We have managed to get
all the way to central Vietnam
from Moscow
over land, using only buses and trains (and a one-off hitch-hiking stretch with
a lovely Mongolian family). Except for our little side trip to Japan from ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 23 Jan 2010 | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Wednesday, 13 Jan 2010 | Views [1000] | Comments [1]
Where the Dragon Descends into the Sea
We ended up celebrating
the holidays in Vietnam, and
as a little Christmas treat to ourselves we took a two day tour of Halong Bay,
sleeping on the pretty junk boat ‘Oriental Sails’. A tour is by far ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sunday, 3 Jan 2010 | Views [618] | Comments [3]
The ‘Sleeper’ Train After
warming up thoroughly by watching classics like ‘The Platoon’, we felt ready
for Vietnam.
A bus and a train ride brought us from Yangshuo in China
to Hanoi in Vietnam,
via the Chinese city Nanning
- famous for it’s ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sunday, 3 Jan 2010 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Thursday, 31 Dec 2009 | Views [669]
We spent
six days training Chen style Tai Chi at the Long Tou Shan Martial Arts
School in Yangshuo, China. When you see old people doing this in the
park, it looks very relaxing and not at all like a particularly strenuous ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Friday, 25 Dec 2009 | Views [420] | Comments [2]
CHINA | Friday, 18 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Monday, 7 Dec 2009 | Views [1409] | Comments [3]
The last two weeks we’ve
been touring the major and some medium size (like four or five times the size
of Stockholm) cities in China, slowly but surely getting ready to let go of the
rail and venture out into the Real China – ... Read more >
CHINA | Monday, 7 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Sunday, 22 Nov 2009 | Views [1176]
After a solid week in Beijing, we decided to go on vacation to Japan. Lovely country – highly recommended. We will definitely go back here – next time hopefully knowing some more Japanese. Trip overview Day Where? ... Read more >
JAPAN | Sunday, 15 Nov 2009 | Views [637] | Comments [7]
Caught this beauty when we were strolling along the bay in Hiroshima. Not sure if it is an eagle, a hawk or something else. Does anyone know? Best, Lars