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Tag: Travelling thoughts

  • How a world trip affected my future travel goals

    How a world trip affected my future travel goals

    The aftermath of a world trip affected my future travel goals as well. Before leaving on a world trip in 2017 my ideal holiday would last for 3 weeks and involve flying as main mode of transportation. My travel goals did mostly start with a flight: Fly to Portugal, fly to South America, etc. A changed…

  • The aftermath of a world trip

    The aftermath of a world trip

    You probably don’t know it, as it’s hard to see the aftermath of a world trip from my infrequent posts published here. But life is changing around me. And so am I. Some changes are delicate and not intended to share even though they contribute quite a lot to my state of mind. Some other…

  • Sun rising over Bagan

    Sun rising over Bagan

    When we rode our electric scooter to the Dhammakaya temple east of New Bagan at 05:30 AM it was still dark. After the sky turned lighter we waited on top of a abandoned monastery to see the sun rising in the east. The sky was hazy and so it felt like the sunrise would not…

  • The dark side of the moon

    The dark side of the moon

    When I was strolling around this morning for different impressions apart from the regular beach days I came across a dump yard. A few boys were preparing a truck with loads of rubbish. As a training after some days of photographic absence, I did enter the premises. First a little hesitant if someone would take…

  • Update

    Update

    I am in Lonely Beach Koh Chang right now. B.A. has recovered in Sihanoukville (Snooky) for a few days. When she got finally better we parted ways again. She took the direct way out of Cambodia. Traveling to the capital Phnom Penh and taking a direct flight to Bangkok. She will rest some more days.…

  • Two sides of a rising country

    Two sides of a rising country

    Battambang is not an especially poor city or an example for the Cambodian clash of social problems. But I decided to publish these pictures anyway. There are buildings and offices in this town and you can really feel people starve to raise themselves to a new social level. On the other hand there are the…