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Traveling through Yunnan – First Leg: Lijiang
May Day Holidays, 28th – 30th of April, 2018 The May Day holidays were spent traveling through Yunnan province! Its a beautiful place with very friendly people, delicious food, and incredible sights to visit. Just sitting in one of the rooftop cafes and enjoying the view of the city is a great start into our…
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Exploring Beijing’s White Cloud Temple
Sunday, 26th of November, 2017 Apart from the many well-known tourist attractions Beijing has on offer there is a surprisingly large number of remarkable sights that draw a lot less attention to themselves. Beijing Bai Yun Guan is honored as the chief temple of the Three Ancestral Temples of the Quan Zhen Taoist tradition. Originally…
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Kanchanaburi Elephant Haven – A jungle walk with gentle giants
Kanchanaburi, 1st of October, 2017 Even though the vacation we spent in Central Thailand and Malaysia was already several weeks ago, the places we visited and new things we learned are easily brought back into memory when looking through the travel photos we took. We are making more frequent use of our video camera as…
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Ayutthaya – Bang Ian Night Market & the Wat Mahathat
Ayuthaya, Friday, the 3rd of October 2017 In Ayuthaya one of the most famous sights is a single severed buddha head that looks out from under the tangled roots of an ancient bodhi tree. It’s hard to imagine how it got there since the body of the statue is long gone, but there might have…
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Panorama Langkawi – SkyBridge, SkyCab and the 3D museum
Day 3 – Monday, the 25th of September 2017 A lot of time and effort went into the planning of this year’s October holiday. As with almost any destination, the LP is a good first source of information and inspiration. One of the things highlighted was a cable car ride up Langkawi’s Machincang mountain, on…
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The Blue Mansion, Penang
Tuesday, the 26th of September 2017 The Blue Mansion was the first place we went to see after arriving in Penang. Since this historical house opens to visitors only three times a day, we joined the guided tour at 3:30pm. Our ferry from Langkawi had just arrived and after checking into our hotel, we conventiently…
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam IV – Three day motorbike tour to Meo Vac
29.01.2017 – 30.01.2017 So here is the fourth part of our travel documentary from Northern Vietnam at the beginning of this year (2017). In the last blog entry we were still discovering Bac Ha and the trekking routes around that small village with our local guide. We stayed one more night in “downtown” Bac Ha…
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam Part III – A game of spinning tops in the rural mountains
A popular way for men all over Northern Vietnam is to spend their free playing a game of spinning tops/boule on an open sand field. Quite a large number of participants can join the game, as long as you bring your own whip and bamboo spike. The rules are quite similar to boule, with the…
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The Eastern Qing Tombs and Dowager Empress Cixi’s Final Resting Place
Weekends are for daytripping – at the end of last month that motto brought us to the Eastern Qing Tombs in Zunhua, almost 130km northeast of the Jing in the province of Hebei.