How it is getting a Sak Yant tattoo from a monk at Wat Bang Phra in Thailand. My experience and all you have to know when thinking about getting a Sak Yant (Thai Bamboo tattoo)
A trip to Mongolia needs a lot of preparation. Not only because of the itinerary, the date or the duration, I think one of the most important things you have to think about is “What the hell should I pack?“. Especially if you’re planning to trek through Mongolia for three weeks like I did. An…
Travelling to Myanmar (Burma) has always been my dream… But actually I should have named this post “Myanmar, the country in which I had my very first banana pancake” and everything would have been said. Yes, it’s true. It was in Myanmar (Burma), more precisely at the restaurant “Cheriland” in Bagan, where I ate the…
It feels a little bit like Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. Every evening at dawn tens of thousands of herons come to the small village of Petulu in the heartland of Bali. Every evening. Petulu is a village like Ubud used to be before the artists came; before Elizabeth Gilbert found love there. (I do hate the…
Here I am in Ulaanbaatar, though I will be in the desert Gobi, while you’re reading this. But I made it to Mongolia, despite three broken nails and a minimeltdown in Moscow (the moment I noticed, I’ve forgotten my charging cable for my Mac Book). Outside my hotel room window the 24h honking fest blends…
Guest post by Antje Pfahl Delhi can be seen as a realm utter of chaos and visiting Delhi means time traveling as well. (I would say this applies for whole India.) India’s capital is shaped by the successive dynasties that have ruled here and today it’s one of the fastest growing and largest cities in…
