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Travel Day 687 – Yogyakarta and Borobudur on Java, INDONESIA In continuation of seeing the historical sites of central Java, today I went to see the Buddhist Borobudur Temple, another UNESCO World Heritage site… In general, the religious aspect of Indonesia seemed quite interesting as it used to be a Buddhist country at some point. […]
Travel Day 686 – Yogyakarta and Prambanan on Java, INDONESIA While exploring Yogyakarta and the Water Castle had been great, today I was off to something bigger and better, the UNESCO enlisted temples of Prambanan… But before even thinking about going to Prambanan, I still wanted to see the Kraton of Yogyakarta and luckily it […]
Travel Day 685 – Solo to Yogyakarta on Java, INDONESIA Somehow this day started on the wrong foot and when I took the rickshaw after breakfast to the train station, the train was just leaving and I had to wait another 1 ½ hours for the next one to come… Technically this was not even […]
Travel Day 660 – Driving on Bali by Scooter, INDONESIA 05/09 Lovina via Pura Ulun Danu Batur to Toya Bungkah Since yesterday had only been a half day at the grey sand beach of Lovina, today at least the morning had to be spent again in the sun and by the sea… Surprisingly enough but the […]
Travel Day 1165 – Yangon to Bangkok, THAILAND Sometimes it was really amazing to see how quickly time could pass by and in this case my allotted days in Myanmar simply felt not quite enough… This was interesting because initially when landing in Yangon I had no real clue about what Myanmar had to offer […]
Travel Day 1164 – Kalaw to Yangon, MYANMAR The 28 day time clock on my visa was running out quickly and there was only one last thing to do for me, discovering a bit of former British colonial Yangon… Initially when I had entered Myanmar my impressions of Yangon on my more than Underwhelming Arrival […]
Travel Day 1154 – Mandalay to Pyin Oo Lwin, MYANMAR Visiting Shwebo had been a very special experience, but arriving in the British colonial hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin simply felt outlandish and surreal… After my extremely nice lunch invitation yesterday in Shwebo, I had left town on the last bus departing for Mandalay. While […]
Travel Day 1148 – Mandalay, MYANMAR Since riding a bike through Mandalay had been a great experience yesterday, I decided to continue exploring more on two wheels today… There were a few listed monasteries and temples further south in Mandalay and it seemed easy enough to visit them while pedaling along some other neighborhoods of […]
Travel Day 1147 – Mandalay, MYANMAR Yesterday I had wondered what the sights were in Mandalay, but today I had at least a little bit of an idea… To be fair, when I was reading my guide on the much too long bus ride yesterday, I already got the clue that Mandalay was not really […]
Travel Day 1144 – Bagan, MYANMAR Seeing all the temples of Bagan inside and out was definitely an amazing experience, but they were actually also impressive at night… By now I had spent four days in Bagan, exploring all the temples, and if time would have permitted, it would have been nice to stay even […]
Travel Day 1143 – Bagan, MYANMAR While the red brick temples in the green fields of Bagan were an absolutely fascinating sight, the interior of the temples was interesting as well… During our first day in Bagan we had already learned that the temples were actually all hollow structures, in various states of repair and […]
Travel Day 1142 – Bagan, MYANMAR Bagan was absolutely amazing, it was simply stunning and yet it was not a UNESCO enlisted World Heritage site… When we climbed some temples yesterday and got a little bit of an overview of what the area of Bagan had to offer, we were simply in disbelieve. There were […]
Travel Day 1141 – Yangon to Bagan, MYANMAR After the more than underwhelming arrival in Yangon, Bagan appeared to be a very different animal, but it came to a certain price… While I normally like to spend at least 3 days in the first place of arrival in a new country, Yangon had made it […]