Four Belgians, two couples, two times two best friends. So my best friends’ boyfriend is my boyfriends’ best friend. What a dream. Well it is, kind of, but apart from just a few double dates in Antwerp, we never spent a lot of time with the four of us. Until now. Jeroen visited Karen (my […]
What to do in West Nepal – Bardia National park & Lumbini
The West of Nepal is an often forgotten part of Nepal. It’s flatter, very green and the infrastructure is less developed. There is one ‘proper’ road from West Nepal to Kathmandu, the rest of the infrastructure is pretty underdeveloped and it’s hard to get from point A to B. Since we (Karen, Elias and I) […]
How to cross the border from India to West Nepal – A journey from Rishikesh to Mahendranagar
At the end of my (non-finished) yoga training in Rishikesh, Elias (who had been volunteering in a different city) came back to Rishikesh and together with my best friend- and yoga buddy Karen, we were travelling to Nepal. We had about 8 days before Karen’s boyfriend and Elias’ best friend (one and the same person) […]
Triund trek – How to hike and camp without a tour
We left Dharamshala in the pouring rain. It was during the first week of September; rainy season in India. We were seven people by now. When I left for India, we started with just three: me, Laura (Elias’ best friend) and Nicolas (Laura’s boyfriend). We all came from Belgium and took the same flight to […]
How not to walk to Ella Rock – The day we got lost in a cobra field
Sometimes it’s better to trust the locals instead of your phone… We wanted to visit Ella Rock and just started following the route Maps.me told us to. Maps.me had been working great for us during our trip and we didn’t expect it otherwise this time. But soon we started to get lost for the first […]
Waterfun around Ella – Diyaluma & Ravana falls
After our first Workaway experience in Weligama we were up for some change of scenery. We exchanged the beach for the mountains and traveled to Ella. Ella is a small town in the middle of the country situated at about 1000 meters above sea-level and because of this, a little cooler than the rest of […]
Sri Lanka after the bombings
After many years of civil war between the Sinhalese & Tamil population, the Sri Lankans were going to celebrate ten years of peace in 2019. Ten years in which Sri Lanka has become a more and more popular tourist destination. In 2019, Lonely planet announced Sri Lanka as the number 1 tourist destination in the […]
Volunteering in Sri Lanka – Workaway in Weligama & Kandy
Before Elias and I left Belgium, we created an account on Workaway.info. Workaway is a platform where hosts from all over the world offer volunteer opportunities for travelers. In exchange for a couple of hours of work per day you get a free place to sleep and meals in some cases. Since we were planning […]
How to extend your Sri Lankan visa in Colombo and how (not) to take a tuktuk
Applying for -or extending a visa is a hassle, every traveller knows this. And the fact that in most cases you have to do these things in busy capital cities doesn’t make it better. We didn’t hear good stories about Colombo and everyone advised us to get out of there as quickly as possible (we […]
Two weeks on Lesvos with Movement On The Ground
The idea to volunteer in a refugee camp came out of a certain guilt we both felt. Guilt about taking a polluting flight and shame of being so rich we can just go wherever we want. So to pay off our debt to the world we decided to do something that we both found important […]