In Luang Prabang, Utopia is a very nice relaxing bar, but only Falangs (white Foreigner) are coming there. As in many town or cities, everything must close at 23:30 sharp in LP, so the after party was in a bowling…
Hill country
Itai suggests many times to hire another car for the way from Sigiriya to Haputale. I am glad that the guy in the guest house advices us to take the bus and train I am trying to push, so that…
Kandy and the ancient cities
Discovering the marvelous Sigiriya
Transit in Bangkok
In Bangkok, Rex invites me through CS at his place. And what a place: very modern apartment in a tower having a swimming pool on its roof! Quite a change after Myanmar! The Internet connection was so slow in Myanmar…
Kolkata
I enjoyed 2 days in Kolkata, hosted by Avik (CS) and his family, and walking through the city with Lukas from Germany, the other guest at Avik’s place. Together, we helped them to organize their 3-week trip in Mai 2013!…
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…
Ulaan Baatar
The airport there appeared me to be very tiny, and I was quickly outside. At midnight, I had to take a taxi to downtown, first to my CS host place, but I couldn’t reach him since it was a wrong…
Last days in Tehran
When we arrive, we were supposed to go to our CS host respectively, but we figured out we had the same! As the metro is closing before 11pm in Tehran, we arrived too late. So we shared a taxi to…
Esfahan
The bus to Isfahan was the same price as the taxi fare from Yazd city center to the bus terminal: 50000 IRR, very cheap for a 5h bus trip! If we started almost empty, some other passengers joined in the…
Shiraz
As I have less than 20 days in Iran, I could only see a part of it, and chose to follow the classic route recommended by the Lonely Planet. I flew from Tehran to Shiraz, a ~ 1000km and 2h…