I continue my journey towards the North of Thailand. After the busy Chiang Mai, I want a quieter place to stay and choose a guest house a little outside the center of the much smaller Chiang Rai and close to…
Trekking and biking around Chiang Mai
Hunting (and eating) rat in the middle of the Thai jungle!
The North
I spend my last week in Sri Lanka in the North, joining my Sister Gaétane at her place in Vavuniya. This town has nothing special, but it is a good hub to go on the coasts around. I spend one…
Hsipaw
The 12h train journey from Mandalay to Hsipaw (starting at 4am!) is beautiful but exhausting. Back in India, I was happy to try once the general class. Here we choose to be close to the locals as well, taking the…
Trekking in Kalaw
Getting lost in remote villages around Kalaw before enjoying a Nepali Dal Bhat!
Inlay Lake
Biking and day boat tour around the Inlay Lake
Bike trip in Southern East
I have a lot of fun going around the southern east provinces with bi cycles or pick-ups. We first bike to the bus terminal in Yangon, a good hour from the city. This bus terminal is actually like a whole…
Around Annapurna
The Annapurna circuit trek take 10 to 12 days from Besishar to Jomsom on the east side towards the north and one week more to close it on the west side. However, the west side is less popular now that…
Chitwan national park
I slept in Nepal close to the border and got a bus to Kathmandu in the early morning, but get out at Narayangarh where I took a local bus to Sauraha. I was actually the first in the bus and…
Jaisalmer
As Daniela already booked it in Ajmer, we took a sleeper bus from Ajmer to Jaisalmer which came again through Pushkar, as I was expecting but the agency in Ajmer told us the contrary… In Jaisalmer, we got an unusual…