While travelling you meet different individuals from all walks of life. Depending on one’s values and lifestyle they get drawn to different places more or less. The last three stops of our trip represent three different worlds: an emotional retreat for the 40-plus, a laid back capital with a French vibe and a hedonistic allContinue reading “Infected with a Travel Bug”
Monthly Archives: December 2011
While Waiting for One Train
Our next destination: Nong Khai, a small Thai border town. We’re turning up at the railway station in Pak Chong at 23:30 to take a night train at 00:30. When midnight strikes Marcin goes to the ticket window to buy two train tickets as you can only purchase them half an hour before the departureContinue reading “While Waiting for One Train”
Touching the Nature
Since planning our trip around Thailand has been quite spontaneous recently, the decision to go to Khao Yai National Park, the oldest Thai national park, established in 1962, was made quite ad hoc as well. From Ayutthaya, the old Thai capital, we took a train to Pak Chong, a provincial sleepy Thai town in centralContinue reading “Touching the Nature”
Ayutthaya: Grandeur of the Past
Bangkok: Two Tales of the City
Another border crossed. This time Thailand. The Land of Smiles is the third country in SE Asia we’re visiting and we hope it’s ‘same same, but different‘, as goes the threadbare slogan overused in tourism industry in Asia.
Smile Against All Odds
“Need a Painting” Boy It’s lunch time. We’re sitting in one of the local restaurants in Siem Reap waiting for a papaya salad , naturally for me, and a burger for Marcin. A girl is washing the passage in front of the restaurant with a mop and she spills some water on the cobbled alley.Continue reading “Smile Against All Odds”
M&M’s and the Temples of Four Faces
It’s amazing how passing one single border can change everything around you. Having arrived to Phnom Penh in Cambodia, we were delighted to discover that Cambodia is not another Vietnam as regards tourism industry. It doesn’t mean it’s difficult to travel here either. It’s more about what you see around is more genuine and closerContinue reading “M&M’s and the Temples of Four Faces”
Good Night, Vietnam!
Ho Chi Minh City, known as Saigon before the National Liberation Front ‘liberated’ the city in 1975, was our last stop in Vietnam. Having arrived by bus late evening, we were greeted by ceaseless streams of motorbikes, which number is bigger in this city than 7 mln of Ho Chi Minh City population. Vietnam’s mostContinue reading “Good Night, Vietnam!”
M&M's let loose 