Finally! It had been my dream for so long to do a big hitchhiking trip, but I was too scared to do it alone… When I found myself a boyfriend who loves adventures as much (or more) as I do, it didn’t take long to make my dream into a real plan. Our first idea […]
Places
Qatar – A bubble in a desert
Qatar wasn’t exactly on top of my wish list… But my sister had been living in the capital, Doha, for the past year. Since I started travelling right before she left, I hadn’t seen her in over a year. So I figured I could add an a-typical country to my list and see what was […]
Coming home, twice
Coming home, part 1 It took me a while to write about this last part of my trip. Partly because I’ve been super caught up in the coming home process; meeting with friends and family, finding a (temporary) place to live, trying to catch up with some administration, finding a job, working… Next to that […]
My own version of Eat, Pray, Love – Bali
On Bali I stayed in two places, to do absolutely nothing but sleeping, eating, surfing, tanning and snorkeling. The surfing I did in Canggu and the snorkeling in Amed, but the rest of my daily activities were the same. In Amed I stayed at Meditasi Bungalows, where I spent a little more to stay in […]
From Singapore to Jakarta by boat
When I first discovered I could get to Jakarta by boat from Singapore, I was quite excited. But after my stress, panick attacks and tiredness got worse and worse, I wasn’t really looking forward anymore to this journey. I really wanted to finish my travels without taking a plane until Bali but I had the feeling I […]
Making friends part 217
I’ve made so many friends on the road I am starting to forget the names (not the faces!) of the people I travelled with in the beginning. Luckily I foresaw this problem from the start and every week, I would write down the names of the people I met that week in my diary. Up […]
Pa Pae Meditation Retreat & My Mental Breakdown
After I said goodbye to my parents in Chiang Mai, I went to Pai. It’s a small town in the mountains and from what I’d heard a backpacker’s paradise. Although I mostly don’t like places which are made only for tourists, Pai is different. Maybe because it’s not really made for tourists, but at least […]
Family time! & First impressions of Thailand
My mom and dad were really eager to catch up with me, somewhere along my trip. Since I was not taking flights, it was not that easy to time this. So when my parents booked their flight to Bangkok, I had a deadline for the first time! This meant, unfortunately, that I had to rush […]
Cambodia – Her darkest and richest history
Apart from the beautiful islands, Cambodia is a country with a very rich and a very dark history. I only spent 16 days in this country, but wanted to see a little of both. Practically the only reason I went to Phnom Penh was to see the Killing Fields and the S-21 Museum. With not a […]
Cambodian paradise: Koh Tonsay & Koh Ta Kiev
After Vietnam, Cambodia looked dryer, poorer and less populated. Corrugated roofs, begging kids (which made my heart break… I hadn’t seen this yet during this trip… but it made me realise how rich I am once again) and a lot more pushy sellers and taxi drivers. I think if you look at the countryside, I […]