March 2016
Ho Chi Minh is the first city in this trip that I did not enjoy at all! Extremely crowded, dirty, smelly…and you get the impression that people around just do not care about one another and all scooters try to kill pedestrians (no picture available as it was very difficult to stop on the road). […]
It’s been almost a week since we left the island and I find it still difficult to describe Gili Trawangan using words or photos. Though, it’s been my favorite place so far; but it was all about feeling, not just beautiful landscapes, cultural heritage or adventurous activities. It is a very small (just 2-3 square […]
Close your eyes! Are they closed?… Of course not, if not, you would not be reading these lines right now! Imagine a place where time has no importance. Imagine a place where humid heat meets all the colors of the rainbow, where lush vegetation makes room for paradise like resorts, where every “Hello” is accompanied by […]
In Ubud, the art capital of Bali situated in the middle of the island we chose to stay in a traditional Balinese family compound (where several generations of the same family live together in different heavily decorated houses grouped around a family temple). We enjoyed feeding and playing with the monkeys in Ubud’s Monkey Forest, […]
I’ve seen snow on TV, but can you tell me how it really looks like? What does it feel like when you touch it? What does it taste? Can you bring some snow to Bali? What do you eat during winter if you cannot do any farming? Simple, basic life questions that Kan reminded us […]
Curious or not, within the biggest Muslim country in the world (Indonesia), most of the Balinese people are Hindi. They believe in one God that has several faces out of which Ganesh (the elephant) is the most popular. Big temples or God statues are present all around the island. In addition, each family has its […]
Lucky bastards! Again! We were in Melbourne for Australia day, in Waitangi (the place where the Brithish colonists singed a collaboration treaty with the indigenous population) for NZ day and here we were in Kuta for Bali’s most important ceremony of the year – Nyepi Day – the new Balinese year or Silence Day celebrated […]
There is one thing that scared me in Cairns. We arrived during the evening and went out to search for a restaurant. On our way to the esplanade we saw hundreds or thousands of bats flying all over while small helpless parrots were hiding in trees and making horrible noise. We still haven’t found out […]
Yes, it was raining badly when we got on the Skyrail gondolas for Kuranda village! It’s a 75 minute ride over the tropical rain forest, giving you a chance to have a different perspective on this wonder of the nature. The 2 intermediate stops for walks in the rain forest were fast and refreshing under […]
Created in the 1930s by a Spanish emigrant, Jose Paronella, the park has one of the most inspiring stories in Australia: a man who follows his childhood dream of building a castle. As a young fellow, Jose moves from Catalonia to Australia and starts working in sugar farms. After saving some money he starts building […]