Simona Davy

Kathmandu was our gate to Nepal and to the Children's home in Talamarang. We were picked up at the airport by Bikash who takes care of the Children's home together with Neel and we were taken to their shops in Thamel. And we were offered to stay at Neel's house for the next few days before going to Talamarang. It was absolutely lovely of him. We got to meet his family, were offered breakfasts and dinners every day and it was perfectly close to the touristic centre of Thamel, to Monkey temple and to the famous Durbar square. Perfect with the exception of one day when we ended being locked in the house by accident and couldn't leave for a few hours for our planned trip :) Being in India for some time, Kathmandu feels like ... read more

No stories from Kuala Lumpur this time as this was our fourth stop in KL and we did all the sightseeing already. So just a few snaps and one video http://youtu.be/KfE4Qaago8Y of a crazy rain and human feet running through a huge puddle, most of them taken while we were geocaches hunting in the town.... read more

For us, uninformed and unprepaired, Borneo was one big surprise. The first thing you notice about Borneo is the most amazing sky you have ever seen. It is the most beautiful mixture of all shades of blue with different types of clouds in different layers and everytime you look up you think wow this is really something special. The second thing we realized pretty quickly was that Borneo is much more developed that we would expect and very modern and very very expensive (although the public transport between cities and touristic places is an absolute disaster that would deserve some improvement). The only two things we have planned for Borneo was to climb the famous Mount Kinabalu in the northern Sabah and to visit the Bako national park in the sourthern Sarawak state of Malaysian Borneo. ... read more

In our effort to experience the real Laos, we hopped on the bus to Sam Neua in east Laos. Trying to get off the beaten track wasn't really comfortable and wasn't that cheap either. After exhausting 16 hours on the bus, we arrived to a small town in the middle of mountains and dense forests. Coming to the mountains pretty much means we spent the whole time on a bus bumping up and down and left and right as the journey is just turns and cliffs and downhills and uphills and more turns and luckily for lots of people on the bus, there are vomiting plastic bags available in an unlimited amount. Only a few tourists come here to Sam Neua, usually only to change a bus and cross the border to Vietnam. We definitely didn't ... read more

Our journey from Sihanouk ville to Kratie in the north of Cambodia was one of the worst since we started travelling. Getting bus at 7 am, arriving to Phnom Penh after mid-day was the easy part. We were told to wait for another bus at the bus station but then we were loaded onto a tuk-tuk and driven somewhere else to find out we were getting a mini-van to Kratie. It wouldn't be tragic if the weather in Phnom Penh wasn't sooo hot and sooo humid and we were sitting in the mini-van, squashed liked sardines and had to wait for maybe another 2 hours until they completely loaded the car with boxed, bags with rice, motorbikes and then it took another good few hours to get to our final destination. So when we arrived to ... read more