Three nights in Bangkok

By Markus on Jan 7, 2015

Bangkok – a city of many tales. To be honest, we didn’t really see that many, since we only had 3 days there, in between Pai and our already booked flight down to Melbourne. We soon figured that Bangkok is way too big to even remotely see in 3 days. With just over 8 million people living there, Bangkok packs the entire population of Switzerland into an area...

762 curves up north

By Markus on Dec 28, 2014

It seemed that the further north we went, the better we liked what we found. We really enjoyed Chiang Mai, which made us want to go even further. Popular choices were Chiang Rai and Pai, and the latter won due to a recommendation from one of my best friends. He said it was his favorite place in all of Thailand, which was enough of a reason for us to go. And what a...

Into the wild

By Judith Scharnowski on Dec 17, 2014

After having explored a few places in the south of Thailand, we were keen to get to know the northern part of the country. A lot of friends told us about the beauty of Chiang Mai, the biggest city in the north, home to around 150’000 people (and over 1 Mio tourists a year). Upon exiting the plane, we took a deep breath of the fresh air. What a good feeling after the...

Koh Phangan stands for…

By Judith Scharnowski on Dec 14, 2014

“Since we are in Thailand anyways, let’s go to the famous Fullmoon Party in Koh Phangan.” That’s what I said to my husband and booked a flight from Phuket to Koh Samui. I found out that domestic flights in Thailand are not as cheap as I expected. The party took place on December 6th, the “Samichlaus Tag” in Switzerland. In a...

Beachtime

By Markus on Dec 5, 2014

While Myanmar is not particularly famous for its beaches, it does nevertheless feature a pretty extensive coast line towards the west. Well, we’re a bit mare-phile anyways, and we figured it would be a perfect goodbye for this place to spend some time at the beach. The most popular beach is Ngapali, quite a bit up north. It’s where all the large resorts...

City of Pagodas

By Judith Scharnowski on Dec 2, 2014

4’000 would already be a lot. And 400’000 would definitely be enough, one might think. But, according to the locals, there are about 4’500’000 Pagodas in Bagan. We did not count or see all of them, but yet we are convinced that this number could be true. We headed to Bagan with a boat from Mandalay. It took us about 10 hours and provided us with a mild sunburn, back...