Climbing Khao Ra
If you want to climb Ko Phangan‘s highest peak Khao Ra (627m), you don’t need a guide, even if many guidebooks tell you otherwise….
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10 celebrations and festivals around the world
There are these celebrations and festivals around the world which usually come up when travellers sit together at night and exchange anecdotes and recommendations. After a…
Jogging in Saigon
The South Vietnamese city Saigon, officially tagged Ho-Chi-Minh-City since the reunification of the two countries in 1975, is a hellhole megalopolis. Eight milion rather…
On a boat through the Ayeyarwaddy Delta – Brackwater, pagodas and hospitality
A wrecked taxi spits me out at the pier on the Ayeyarwaddy. In an instant, I am surrounded by a hord of kids in…
At the Inle Lake: Ghost ride on a water buffalo
Superstition? Sunstroke with hallucinations? Or, after all, something you can’t really find words for? On a day in February in the heart of Burma…
7 strange foods you don’t necessarily have to try!
Strange foods? Before I drew the consequences and became a Vegetarian, I virtually ate everything anybody anywhere waved in front of my face for…
Tsunami Volunteer – My experience in Thailand
After having come to Phuket 4 days after the Tsunami in order to help, my Swedish travel companion Max and I had worked 48…
Savior of the furless dogs – Phangan Animal Care
This is the account of my volunteering at Phangan Animal Care: Oh no, another pothole! Again, the brown dog who has only just recovered…