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Travels Archive
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New York and London
My recent trip to NYC and the short weekend away to London were amazing. I can’t wait to live in London and wouldn’t mind to live, at some point, in NYC for a while. So another two places added on my list of simply great places to be. What I love about metropolises, just like Tokyo, [...] -
Sardinia
Spring break in Sardinia, click on the photo below to see the photo album on flickr. At this time of the year there weren’t many tourists there. The weather was sunny but windy and only a very few people dared to go have a dip in the ocean. There wasn’t really much to do in [...] -
Shanghai
Shanghai, home to more than 20 million people, is an exhilarating, fascinating, huge and high metropolis. Skyscrapers everywhere, a magnetic levitated train that goes as fast as 431 km/h (it was fast, yea!), and 40% of green areas by 2010, Shanghai also boasts with an exciting melange of East and West, tradition and hypermodernity, in [...] -
Vietnam and China
My Southeast Asian journey is almost over. Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay was amazingly beautiful. There are almost 2000 limestone hills and rocks that build small islands with weird shapes, surrounded by green water, inhabited by tourists and local fishermen. Cruising around the bay, going kayaking, seeing a nice cave but mostly just relaxing on the [...] -
Vietnam
Millions of motorbikes. Stools so small you really wonder if they were made for infants. No traffic rules whatsoever (Malaysia was a heaven of logic compared to this). Old French buildings. A few new tall buildings. People chilling outside. Very friendly people. Vietnam is great! I’ve been to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) and Hanoi so far, [...] -
Bangkok and Cambodia
Some Photos of Bangkok and Cambodia: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=91120&id=503192582&l=9772cc7e6f -
From Bangkok to Phnom Penh
For my lazy visitors: I’m still fine, still travelling, still enjoying. For everybody else: Here I am, in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. I flew today from Bangkok, where I got to know to a 49-years old ethnically Nigerian London-born Rastafarian, so it was an interesting flight… My last days in Bangkok (I spent four days there) [...] -
Bangkok 1
(German, scroll down!) Today, I arrived in Bangkok, Thailand. Of course I got there in one of these colourful taxis that shine pink and orange and yellow throughout the entire city. Bangkok is Asia’s number one tourist destination and I completely agree. It is a huge metropolis, like Tokyo, but things move slower than in Tokyo or [...] -
on y va!
3 exams to go. While I should be studying (the usual procrastination), I am planning my trip in two weeks: I will go from Penang to Bangkok (Thailand) to Phnom Penh to Angkor Wat (Cambodia) to Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi to Halong Bay (Vietnam) to Nanning to Shanghai (China), and all the way back [...] -
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a fascinating place. Warned by a Canadian whom I met on the bus – “this is the best city in the world” – I couldn’t help but also fall in love with this place. Hong Kong offers urban craziness, busyness, hassle, and congestion, it lures you with temples and a massive amount [...]