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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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Taiwanese East Coast by Bike – Hualien
Taiwan, 30.09.2019 – 07.10.2019 It’s Chinese Golden Week again and this year we spend the seven holidays in Taiwan. On our first day we landed in Taipei and were surprised by a taifun – most of the shops were closed, rain came at us from all sides and the wind destroyed our borrowed umbrella. Still…
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Oh Wonder – Lose It
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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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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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Kaleo – Way Down We Go
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Hiking along The Great Wall Mutianyu
This is a flashback to last year winter, in early January 2016, when we hiked along the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
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Elderbrook – Could