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…
Journey from Delhi to Leh, Ladakh
Arrived in Delhi from Thailand, I met Manisha at our CS host Gautam. We went straight to buy the ticket for the first leg: Delhi to Manali. Waiting for the city bus, getting to the bus terminal close to the…
Khao Sok National Park
For my last days in Thailand, I went to the jungle in the Khao Sok national park, which main entrance is 100km west from Surat Thani. Sunday the 19th was spent mostly on the ferry and road from Kho Samui…
Angthong National Marine Park
The Angthong National Marine Park is an archipelagos of more than 40 islands, west from Kho Samui. It is reachable by daily tours: a tour boat starts from Kho Samui about 8:30 am, stop in one island for some hours,…
Diving in the Gulf of ThailandTauchen in den Golf von ThailandPlongée dans le golfe de Thailande
The main motivation to come into these islands was diving. And for that, the best is Koh Tao. So I stayed 2 full days in Big Blue dive resort, one of the biggest in the island and in the top…
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,…