The Roads of India

Getting from point A to B in India is relatively easy and the credit goes to the British and their railway system, making a backpacker’s life so much easier. If only the Germans had built the roads on top of that, India would be a paradise for independent travellers. Theres is no-one else, but me

Existential Pains in the Desert

An alarm clock wakes us up at an ungodly hour of 5am. We take our backpacks and march through the narrow streets of Jaisalmer, the most western town of Rajasthan, near the border with Pakistan. At 6am sharp power gets disconnected in the entire Jaisalmer and we walk in a complete darkness, paying extra caution

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 central

Cormorants Under the Blue Sky of Yunnan

The last Chinese province on our itinerary waiting to be explored after Hong Kong and Macau was Yunnan. There was a brief thought of my other half to skip it and head off to Vietnam, but that would be clearly a deadly sin we would never forgive ourselves. For some travellers, Yunnan with its 25

Off Road with Kimchi and Boxes

We got our Chinese visa and practically we could leave Mongolia anytime, but the experience of this country would not be complete without horse riding. During our Gobi trip we met a Finnish couple who recommended us a good family-run company which organises horseback tours near the White Lake in Central Mongolia. Without a further