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 […]
Places
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 […]
Along the Mekong to Cambodia
I am not a big fan of doing organised tours. You’re often in a big group, which goes either too hurried or to slow, it’s over priced and most of all, there is no challenge in that, no adventure at all. If you only have a short amount of time in a place and you […]