Born to Travel.
Yangtze River Cruise was officially my first luxury-scenic cruise experience. I’m not exactly ‘luxury’ type of a traveler, but I wanted to experience what I don’t normally do. Four days of the cruise was one of the highlights of my China trip, no doubt. Because of the scenery and because of the [...] Read more »
“The natural world doesn’t come with an instruction leaflet, so it teaches you to use your creative imagination.” It pretty much sums up what I think about travel. This is a part of the news article from BBC how nature deficit is harming children. Throughout many interviews I did with fellow [...] Read more »
To this day, Dali is my favourite city in China. For two months, I’ve been traveling in Guangxi Province, Yunnan Province and Sichuan Province, and there were not many so places that I could see myself living, but Dali was one of them. Dali used to be a backpackers’’ THE hangout place, but [...] Read more »
One of the best things about being in a tropical country is their fruit. How can I resist having mango, mangosteen, and papaya everyday? It is more desirable because I couldn’t get them in my home country; where there are four significant seasons. And of course, they are sweet and juicy, sour and [...] Read more »
When we decided to stay in Laos for few weeks, I got worried about getting malaria. I’m very easy target to mosquitos – to this day, I don’t know the reason. And just in time, there was a BBC article about how malaria is getting higher death rates around the world. Perfect. But, [...] Read more »
Travel Tips: Why you need to plan extra time while traveling Time, time, time… Time is always an issue during travels. We are late or early, stuck in traffic, stressed out… Especially if you are having a short vacation, time can be an issue every single day. You would think “I want [...] Read more »
I’m leaving soon, and traveling with a backpack. This trip is going to be long, and it’s not a vacation. I will be living out of my backpack, so I need my usual items along with super-travel-friendly things. Besides of my small but powerful items, and hiking pants, running shoes, t-shirts, laptop, I [...] Read more »
Multiple days hiking trip is a great microadventure. It is a compact version of the simple life: pack light and travel further. The backpack with essential hiking gears, a tent and a sleeping bag are all we need. And, some food. No need to book a flight ticket, shop for cheap holiday insurance, and [...] Read more »
Packing can be a joyful process before get on the plane, and also can be stressful. All of a sudden all stuff in your place looks very handy and very important for every reason you can think of. But, we need to think straight and see what really is and what isn’t. We all [...] Read more »
It’s been almost two months since we left for our roadtrip. And it’s about to end. Well, it has been longer than we expected when we started. Roadtrip in the US has been on my continuous bucket list for a while now. Still I haven’t been to more than two third of the [...] Read more »