I stayed a few days (26th to 29th) in Delhi at Amrit’s place, lovely located in the South. Amrit is yet another very friendly CS fellow. We had nice evenings together and with his friends! Delhi is a huge city.…
Amritsar
I took a night bus from Jammu to Amritsar: an interesting experience, the first time I saw fully sleeper bus: the bus is split horizontally: seats down and sleeper up. I got a sleeper for the 5 hours drive. The…
Jammu
I planned to take a night bus from Srinagar to Jammu but a few hours before, Iqbal told me he will go to Jammu with his car the day after. So I joined him in his comfortable SUV on the…
Srinagar
We finally arrived in Srinagar by the sunset, the summer capital of Kashmir. The most popular place to stay in this touristic city is in one of the thousands house boats in the Dal lake, the beautiful lake in the…
Leh and around
Leh is still quite a remote place. While becoming very touristic with plenty of travel agencies and restaurants, most of them are just opened 4 months a year, the road to Leh being closed during the winter. There is also…
Koh Samui and Koh PhanganKoh Samui und Koh PhanganKoh Samui et Koh Phangan
The rainy season started when we arrived, and it is supposed to affect the west coast (Phuket & Koh Phi Phi). But the east coast and the gulf of Thailand are pretty much preserved and have their own monsoon more…
Bangkok, part2
Together with Hervé and Punkgy who never went there before, we visited Wat Arun on Saturday. The stairs to get up are impressively steep, like some part of the Great Wall I was hiking one week before! Once on the…
Thailand, discovering Bangkok
Our flight was as newly planned and arrived in Bangkok around midnight. We took a taxi to the hotel in Sukhumvit 15 for less than 10€ (320 b). We were surprised to see so much activity on the street that…
Extra time in Beijing
Ling’s visa story let us three other nights in Beijing because the next flight was on the 1st. Finding a place to stay in such a huge city is not an easy task! We spent 2 hours in the airport…
Beijing
While I left Beijing under the Sun (the 23th), arriving back in the mid afternoon the 26th was another story: grey sky and low visibility. The next days in Beijing were almost under this grey and rainy weather. In Beijing,…