Category: Asia & Pacific

  • Japanese cherry blossom craze – You almost can‘t get enough

    Japanese cherry blossom craze – You almost can‘t get enough

    Ever since I started playing with the thought of visiting Japan, I just knew that I definitely had to see the cherry blossom season. But the Japanese cherry blossoms last, just like any other cherry blossoms around the world, only for about a week or two. To be able to capture your own personal cherry…

  • Find out, which Sihanoukville beach is your favourite

    Find out, which Sihanoukville beach is your favourite

    There is plenty of choice concerning Sihanoukville beaches! This guide will help you find the one best for you. Atmosphere Is Sihanoukville worth the arduous four to five hour trip from Phnom Penh? In my opinion, yes, it is. The Sihanoukville beaches are, in part, unbelievably beautiful. Everything is reasonably priced, since it is a…

  • You‘ll have them to yourself: Visit the temples of East Java

    You‘ll have them to yourself: Visit the temples of East Java

    Hidden places This series covers places where not many tourists show up. Discover the gems, that lie off the beaten tourist track! Only attractions where, during my entire visit, I haven’t come across more than five other international tourists make it into this category. I don’t count local tourists. After two reports about two busy…

  • Tourist traps in Asia

    Tourist traps in Asia

    In the present day, as huge amounts of data are saved in huge databases in huge, air-conditioned server farms, I, as a travel blogger, would like to do my part and contribute to the systematization of all knowledge, and today I am delivering an overview over the most important tourist traps in Asia – for…

  • Ups and downs: One day and one night in Bali‘s Ubud

    Ups and downs: One day and one night in Bali‘s Ubud

    Sometimes I make good decisions. So I decided that it would be sufficient to spend only one night in Ubud in Bali, Indonesia. I came here to see the famous Legong dance and it really was sensational! But the rest is kind of negligible here, unless you take a yoga class or urgently need to…

  • Merapi – the dangerous Indonesian volcano

    Merapi – the dangerous Indonesian volcano

    Close to Yogyakarta lies the Gunung Merapi, an Indonesian volcano and one of the most dangerous volcanoes on earth. The last occasion on which it demonstrated its strength was in 2010 when it produced a series of eruptions with more than 300 casualties. You can find more information about the Gunung Merapi here.If you visit…

  • Must visit: The Prambanan temples are really well preserved

    Must visit: The Prambanan temples are really well preserved

    At Prambanan, an inspiring location, I again felt a sense of travel frustration when I realized that I had only managed to see the central temples. But when one visits Borobudur temple, Gunung Merapi volcano and, to top it all of, the Prambanan temple all in one day, in order to avoid paying for a…

  • Thailand travel advice

    Thailand travel advice

    After almost two years in Thailand, where I live between my travels, it’s about time for my Thailand travel advice. Here we go! When to go? From mid-November until mid-February it is not too hot and there is almost no rainfall. In Thailand’s south, from about Surat Thani southwards, it may rain all year round.…

  • Stroll through Yogyakarta and discover its treasures

    Stroll through Yogyakarta and discover its treasures

    Yogyakarta serves as a great base for the independent traveller who wants to visit nearby attractions, such as the Buddhist Borobudur temple, the Hindu Prambanan temple complex and the Gunung Merapi. For just a day even Yogyakarta – called Yogya by the locals – offers its visitors enough attractions. The “main” street for tourists, but…

  • Tuscany in Northeast Thailand

    Tuscany in Northeast Thailand

    Only 2.5 hours outside Bangkok, north-east of the well-known Khao Yai National Park, lies Wang Nam Khiao (also known as Wang Nam Keow or Wang Nam Kaew), an area which belongs to Khorat province. The tourism authority of Thailand describes Wang Nam Khiao as the Switzerland of Isan (the Northeast of Thailand). The climate is,…