Author: Stijn Swinnen
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Our foggy Sa Pa Topas Travel experience
Time ticks away fast, the last days of our trip approached faster than we wanted to. With such little time left, we agreed we should try to get the most out of it. One of the highlights of my visit to Vietnam the year before were the North of Vietnam. Many other travellers we met…
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Video of our “Islands of the Mekong” bicycle tour in Phnom Penh
As written in our previous article, The Chaos of Phnom Penh, we did do a small bicycle tour organised by Grasshopper Adventures. Next to the many photos we had taken, I also had mounted a GoPro camera on the steering bar of the mountain bike. Though I little detail was forgotten: I forgot to charge the…
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Drive to Bokor National Park
A 1400 square kilometer National park that according to Wikipedia now hosts a ghost town, a location that was used in the move City of Ghosts. We did start our morning with a breakfast in Rikitikitavi in the center of Kampot. We asked them to prepare take-away sandwiches for our trip. We filled up…
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From Naypittaw to Chaungta Beach: The road to paradise goes along hell
The first day of the year we planned to leave the immense empty city of Naypittaw to go to Chaungta beach or Ngwesaung beach. Our bus would only leave at 9 pm so we still had a full day to keep us busy. There was still an important job to be done: finding a…
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The smartphone generation
Taking selfies and photos of each other is something you see everywhere in the world. In India, we especially noticed many people who insisted on being on the photo together with us, or especially with Elize. In Bangkok, a selfie is taken on every corner of the street at every minute of the day. And…
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24 hours in Bangladesh
Bangladesh was not on our itenerary for this trip. When we booked our flight to Myanmar, the cheapest option was to fly with Biman Bangladesh Airlines and have a short stopover in Dhaka. We had booked the flight just before I left for India in the beginning of October. Somewhere on the way, when we…
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Last day in Udaipur
For the last day in Udaipur our only plan was to pay bill for the guest house and pack our bags. While we were having our breakfast I received a message from Punita. She lives in Udaipur and had spotted our blog. It turned out that she is living on the street Stijn had earlier…