June 2016
Do you know the Nike message? I think you all do: “Just do it!” This is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think back to Ko Phi Phi. Just do it! Just go there! I’ve seen quite a few islands lately, but if I were to choose one to come back […]
Here we were just the 2 of us again! Sad? Happy? Both and much more multiple and contradictory feelings! We decided that we needed something new, something different… And that is how we found ourselves at our first yoga and meditation class in Krabi: two European tourists that have never had any contact with this […]
After being on the road for some time we thought it was time to cool down and relax with 2 friends from Romania on the amazing beaches in the Gulf of Thailand. It was not that easy though – I think we got used to being just the two of us (The Bear and The […]
Late afternoon, before sunset. The sun’s reflection in the Irrawaddy River to the West, trees covering the two-lane highway giving us the impression that we’re in a green tunnel and, of course, Robbie Williams’s song resonating in our headphones: that’s how we entered Mandalay coming from the South. Mandalay is the third most important city […]
Having still almost one week left for Myanmar after visiting Bagan, we decided to make a detour before going to Mandalay. We had a look on the internet and found Monywa being recommended as the perfect stop between Bagan and Mandalay. It was the best decision we could make as it soon became our favorite […]
A country is not only a long list of monuments, places, cities, mountains, rivers and so on. It is especially made of PEOPLE. And if there would ever be a top of the countries where people have the warmest, most sincere smiles I’m sure that Myanmar would easily enter that list. We were so overwhelmed […]
Even though Cambodia remains my favorite country in South-East Asia so far, with Angkor Wat as one of its most amazing sceneries, I did like more the “rival” Bagan in Myanmar. It is not included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is less known and less well-maintained, but I felt it closer to what […]