We land in the middle of the night in Bangkok and therefore break with an unwritten rule for us and take us a taxi (or grave, the Asian variant of Uber) to the hotel. This will catch up with us the next few days more often, because the public transport in Bangkok is unusable for ...

The city of Siem Reap is the natural starting point for the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Angkor Wat”. Although we never took the “travel-to-do” lists very seriously, we wanted to take a closer look at the most famous temples in Southeast Asia at least since Mexico – if only to get to know the differences ...

As already indicated, in Koh Lipe we decided to treat ourselves once more. We had been thinking about visiting Angkor Wat for a while and somehow it seemed like a nice change to the whole island before we left Bangkok. Accordingly, we booked for the 05.01. a flight from Phuket to Siem Reap, earlier would ...

Even though Koh Lipe is really beautiful, it gets boring relatively quickly – at least if you’re not busy with touring and diving all the time, which is why we were glad to come back to a bigger island. In addition, we had the turn of the year in the house and we were really ...

Do we want to go to Koh Lipe? This question caused us a little mixed feelings again. This is in favor of the unofficial title of the Maldives of Southeast Asia, on the other hand, the mass tourism initiated by the Thai government for several years. Actually, the small island of Koh Lipe (2 km ...

With a three-hour but very quiet ride on the speedboat, our first – with backpackers typically very popular – real island hopping begins. So far, we have always postponed it, simply because it usually involves a lot of time but also money, just to lie on the beach and snorkel a bit. And after a short ...

The island of Penang just off the coast is actually only the starting point for the “real” islands. So as not to spend 8 hours in buses and ferries, we decided to stay one night in Penang to spend a leisurely afternoon in the small town of Georgetown and not take the ferry to our ...

sorry, only google translate In order to break up the route between Kuala Lumpur and the planned island hopping for the Christmas season, we decided to pay a visit to the Cameron Highlands. Our feelings in advance were mixed due to various travel reports (keyword: mass tourism), but we still did not want to miss out ...

We arrive in Kuala Lumpur in the late afternoon – or in the Bukit Bintang district, where our inn is – and are pleased to see that we have hit it completely in the black. Not only is the famous night food market just a 5-minute walk away, but the large shopping malls (for example ...

Now we sit in the car back to the airport and can not help but wonder if this short detour into the jungle was worth the whole effort. In the run-up to the event, we spent a lot of time thinking about the usefulness of this side trip, especially from an ecological point of view or ...

sorry, only google translate… Now it was time. The tour in the jungle, for which we had taken 2 days for arrival and departure in purchasing, should start. Here again the advantage of traveling in the low season, we were only with a couple from Munich and a Dutchman and our two guides on the way. ...

sorry, only google translate… After we have (more or less) kept our feet still for over 15 months, it is finally time for a new adventure. When planning we had originally thought only about Malaysia and Thailand. At some point during the research, we stumbled over an alleged jewel of Indonesia, namely Bukit Lawang in the ...