During the day, Silom is a business district with office workers filling the streets. At night it’s still a business district but the industries have changed. One of the sois is home to the infamous Pat Pong sex tourist haven and the whole main road is lined with small shops selling… pretty much everything. Souvenir […]
Machans Beach
North of Cairns are, the name suggests it, the Northern Beaches. Besides touristic places like Palm Cove there are the more quiet corners where mostly locals live and no or few hotels can be found. On Monday I took a bus out to Machans Beach which is the first beach outside Cairns, close to the […]
Happy Abu Dhabi – follow up
During my stay in AD I had joined Omar, who was shooting a video showing random people dancing to the song “Happy” by Iforgotthenameagain. The video is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=audy0aHjdyg I think it’s really well done. Yours truly has a short appearance around 3:40. Dancing in the streets of Abu Dhabi!
The touristy corner of Pokhara
Tourism in Pokhara and Nepal in general was badly hit by the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake and the following Indian border closure that resulted in a severe lack of gas, petrol and many other things needed during winter time. These days, parts of the main tourist area in Pokhara look like a ghost town. […]
Good Morning Vietnam!
I had to write a post titled with that sentence, it was inevitable. Phu Quoc has been treating me well, it is a pleasantly undeveloped island and even though there is several resorts on the island, it is still far away from Koh Tao and other Thai islands. The town I’m staying at still has […]
Inland Day Trip
Tuesday morning we were greeted by sunshine and blue sky. After the wet season in the last couple of days we were keen on getting out of the house. Roughly 30km from Airlie Beach are the Cedar Creek Falls and we went to see them. Did I mention the heavy rainfalls during the last weeks? […]