After 4 months travelling from Thailand to Myanmar, here I am, ready for more adventures from Sri Lanka to the Philippines. Follow my backpacker trip and enjoy little anecdotes and travel tips. Love*
After visiting part of Java, Bali and Lombok, I decided to explore another Indonesian island: Flores. Here's a feedback of my 13 days trip in this beautiful island. You'll find my itinerary step by step and short explainations and photos of the main highlights. 1....
After spending a month in the Philippines, I had a hard time picking my favorite spots. Among the 7000 islands forming this gigantic country, I've focused my attention on 4 of them: Luzon, Cebu, Bohol and Palawan. Here are my favorite highlights. 1. Cebu...
Tried to select my 10 favorite spots in Indonesia, it's a hard thing to do as the country is huge and fascinating. There are many other great places that I can't mention here of course. 1. Snorkeling Gili Islands - Lombok (West) If you like heavenly beaches...
After spending 1 month in Sri Lanka, here are my 10 favorite sites on this island full of treasures. 1. Sigiryia (Center) There is a rock that looks like it fell from the sky and it's called Sigiryia. Climbing up there is a bit tricky for someone that...
As you already read if you're a follower, I just finished a road trip in Northern Thailand. It is called the Mae Hong Son loop and it starts from Chiang Mai to Pai and then goes the length of the border with Myanmar. The idea here is to give you a little...
1. Bukit Terisek & canopy walk - Taman Negara Taman Negara National Park is one of the oldest tropical forest in the world. It requires a 2.5 hours boat ride to get there. It is where you can find the longest suspension bridge in the world. Really fun...
I also want to express my sincere salutations to all the people I got to meet during this trip, in other words, my travel buddies (in order of appearance): Sri Lanka: - Célia & Martin: the Flamingo team. Célia keep you passion, you're an inspiring soul....
Here comes the time to thank everyone who has been there for me the whole time. Traveling gives you the opportunity to meet incredible people and gives you faith in human nature. Again, each of you is one more proof - if needed - that kindness is around...
After two weeks travelling around Taiwan, here is my ranking - totally subjective - of the best places to visit and why. 1. Kaohsiung - Lotus Lake, Tiger and Dragon pagodas (South West) According the me, the most beautiful city in Taiwan. The Lotus lake...
After spending 2 weeks in Sarawak, mainly exploring the National Parks, let me give you a feedback of the 6 parks or reserves I visited. First of all, a table with useful information on how to get there, from which city and how much you'll have to spend...
8am: Everybody woke up so early in the dorm, I couldn't sleep in or anything. Already at breakfast, taking in the amazing scenery. And today, I plan to explore Bohol on a scooter, that'll remind me of Indonesia and it'll be the first time I ride a scooter...
6.30am: Slept like a baby at 9pm yesterday night to be ready for the island hopping in the 17 islands today. We read very good reviews about it from different sources. We paid 250.000Rps each without lunch for the whole day on a private boat. 7am: The...
I know the question that burns your lips to ask every time I come back is: which country did you like the most! The festival de Cannes going on right now gave me an idea on how to decide. Attributing awards on different categories and subcategories: -...
- On the ground Deer (Sri Lanka): Santa Klaus also relocates to other countries... Elephant (Thailand & Sri Lanka): Dumbo is sacred here. Big ears, big... what? Mouse deer (Malaysia): A deer the size of a mouse... Of a small dog more like. Am I the only...
- In the trees Tarsier (Philippines): Did you know that the smallest primate in the world can fit in the palm of your hand? It also looks at you with the cutest 'Puss in boots' like big eyes. Orangutans (Borneo): The most famous and also most human-like...
8am: Ben, my British roommate, came back at 2am completely wasted - or 'pissed' as he says and started talking to me. He's nice but the typical British drinking guy. He got ethanol poisoning in Cambodia and had to go to the hospital and everything......
10.30am: First stop today: Singha Park. For the ignorant, Singha is the most popular and the oldest beer producer in Thailand. The grass there is as well-maintained as a golf course. And the flower beds look amazing. The park is famous for the tea fields....
8pm: The breakfast buffet is directly on the beach. It's beautiful even though the food is consistent with what I consider Filipino food to be: between not good and terrible. There is tocino - you know, that dodgy pink greasy pork meat - that means a...
10.30am: Pinkie Beauty and I got ready to explore the less touristy part of Bohol. There are several waterfalls and you know how much I like them! The first one was Mag-Aso and it's great. Not the most impressive one, it's only 5 meters high but a perfect...
7.30pm: After struggling to get a bus ticket - yesterday I was stuck in Ruteng because of Easter and this morning I discovered the hotel hadn't booked my trip - I'm finally on the bus to Bajawa. 10.30pm: The road is once again very beautiful and natural....
After 4 months and 6 countries visited, this is the end of the first part of my trip. It's also time to thank all the people I got to share that experience with. First of all, my sister who's always been supportive and loving. You're my sibling, my best...
If I had to choose 5 things to do in Singapore, here is my list. Some of you might have noticed that I'm more into nature than big cities and building so this ranking reflects my state of mind. 1. Marina Bay Sands - Light show The Marina Bay Sands is...
I know you guys like concrete elements to picture my trip. That's why I decided to keep track of my travels every single day. This is how I came up with that synthetic table telling you how many kilometers I've done in each coutry and how. -> In a nutshell:...
In the air Sorry for this section, I don't have my own pictures because I don't have an appropriate camera to make close ups. But thought you'd wanna know what the animals look like anyway! Giant fruit bats (Flores/Indonesia) Very noisy Tiny insect bats...
Same here, some are my pictures - the shitty ones - others are not. Plancton (Cambodia) You can see them during the day but at night, you go in the sea and move and it's glowing. Like magic! Fireflies in the sea. Irrawaddy dolphins - freshwater (Laos)...
