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Travel Day 652 – Bangkok, THAILAND This only full day in Bangkok was quite a busy one, especially because everything hat to get done that I couldn’t get done easily in Nepal… So after some nice breakfast in the hostel, it was time to do some packing and organizing as some items needed to be […]
Travel Day 651 – Kathmandu to Bangkok, THAILAND The day started pretty early with hailing a cab, waving a last good-bye to Thamel and Kathmandu, plus catching a flight to Bangkok… While the flight was technically nice, it was unfortunately delayed and by the time we finally arrived and received the luggage, I realized that […]
Travel Day 1137-38 – Bangkok, THAILAND After treating my wound from the past at the Bumrungrad Hospital yesterday, today I had to look at the future and start preparations for my visit in Myanmar… Luckily I had taken care of all the visa formalities for Myanmar back in July when I first arrived in Bangkok. […]
Travel Day 1136 – Bangkok, THAILAND While I had really enjoyed my stay in Sri Lanka, unfortunately I had left the country with a little souvenir I never wanted, an infected wound on my foot… This infected wound had started pretty harmlessly as a simple scratch back in Anuradhapura and over time it had become […]
Travel Day 1109 – Bangkok to Colombo, SRI LANKA After arriving back in Bangkok yesterday evening, today I could really only do some errands, pack my backpack and get ready for Colombo and Sri Lanka… Actually since I had arrived in Bangkok with my huge backpack including my Tabla and since I knew that I […]
Travel Day 1108 – Koh Tao to Bangkok, THAILAND It didn’t seem fair, but the weather was finally really good, I was starting to feel quite comfortable on Koh Tao and yet I had to leave everything behind already… I guess I always knew that I would only have a few days left to visit […]
Travel Day 1107 – Koh Tao, THAILAND Wow, today was a very different day and today I actually had to admit that I really liked Koh Tao which all of a sudden appeared as the perfect place for a little beach Daycation… My change of mind had probably a lot to do with the weather, […]
Travel Day 1106 – Koh Phangan to Koh Tao, THAILAND After settling-in so nicely on Koh Phangan, I really wasn’t sure any more if wanted to move on, but since Koh Tao had been my original destination, I felt obliged to at least have a look and see how different the other island… Since I […]
Travel Day 1105 – Koh Phangan, THAILAND Even if I went to bed quite late yesterday, today I couldn’t help but wake up early, and even if it wasn’t 4am, but by 6.30am I was already running around… The evening rain shower yesterday had probably been rather a storm than anything else, because in the […]
Travel Day 1104 – Wat Suan Mokkh to Koh Phangan, THAILAND It was already the final morning session of our Vipassana meditation retreat and instead of following the regular schedule, we had a lot of things to get done and organize… Of course we still had our last 4am rise with the usual morning reading […]
Travel Day 1102 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND It was already the last day of our Vipassana retreat at Wat Suan Mokkh and for some strange reason our entire schedule was changed again… After finally having such a great and intense day yesterday, which had actually felt like what I had expected from […]
Travel Day 1102 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND After four more days of Vipassana routine and to everyone’s big surprise, our schedule was changed again… Without any prior warning, we happened to see yesterday evening that there was once again a new schedule posted, starting at day 9. Actually the changes were not […]
Travel Day 1099-01 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND While all my Buddhist studies at Kopan Monastery in Nepal had been in the Mahayana tradition, now in Thailand it was great to finally learn a little bit more about the Theravada Buddhism… Obviously the fundamental teachings of the Buddha like the “Four Noble Truths” […]