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Visiting legendary UNESCO world heritage temple Angkor Wat
As the world’s largest religious monument Angkor Wat is an architectural masterpiece from the Khmer period. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vwLw5FcoP/?igshid=1pt092qc1pry7 https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vxfpjlfMn/?igshid=1bwzqfpvl9ml3
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Disputed Preah Vihear Ruins on the Thai-Cambodian Border
Cambodia, the 27th of January 2020 A three hour long road trip with our local guide Oeum Rida through the Cambodian „outback“ brought us all the way to the northernmost part of the country to the Preah Vihear temple. Located at the natural border of Thailand and Cambodia atop the Dangrek mountain range, these Khmer ruins…
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Ximen Rainbow Crosswalk in Taipei
Taipei, 05.10.2019 It’s been already a few month since we traveled to Taiwan but I still think back on this trip often. There were so many moments where we simply got lucky – like with this photo of the popular Ximen rainbow crosswalk which usually attracts way too many other tourists to get a good…
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Taiwanese East Coast – 70km bike tour from Hualien to Shitiping
Hualien, Taiwan October 2nd, 2019 There are two routes that go all the way along the Taiwanese east coast, highway 9 and highway 11. While the first one goes further inland and has much more vegetation and landscape, highway 11 basically has the sea to one side all the time and a small mountain range…
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Shibuya Baby
One of the busiest intersections in the world is the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo. When you are right in the middle of it you don’t really feel it, but especially during rush hour – like during lunch break or after work – and you stand to the side and wait, thousands of people cross this…
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Chinese New Year escape to Indonesia
Indonesia, 29.01.2019 – 09.02.2019 2018 has passed in a rush and the lunar new year provided us with a whole week of (extra) holidays yet again. Every year we contemplate to just stay in Beijing and boycott the exorbitantly high prices airlines and hotels charge for travels on these Chinese holidays, and every year we…
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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…