Playa Blanca is the beach that travellers speaks so warmly of and that all travel agencies across the Colombian coast try to sell you. We had our tour booked through our hostel who afterwards booked the tour from the company running it called Sea and Land Tours at a price of 55 000 Colombian Pesos...Read More
To go to Volcano de Lodo has been one of the best decisions we have done here in Colombia. An all inclusive day trip booked through our hostel costed only 50 000COP and was worth every penny. At eight in the morning we were picked up from our hostel and driven straight to the Totumo...Read More
Cartagena has the reputation of being the safest city in Colombia and it also feels that way, but our flight into the city did not. During the whole time flying into Bogota and the next flight from Bogota to Cartagena we flew through a thunderstorm seeing the lightning striking several times a minute not too...Read More
The last few days had been spent living in a small bubble called Waikiki and before picking up our Chrysler 200 Convertible rental car, we had no idea what there even was to see at the rest of the island. The only things we had already done was the compulsory hiking trip up Diamond Head...Read More
Waikiki is the most touristy city, in the most touristy island in Hawaii and is located directly by the beach just half an hour from Honlulu International Airport. The city is not that big, and Waikiki beach can easily be walked several times in a day. All these things describing a place that I normally...Read More
Majuro turned out to be everything we wanted it to be: a laid back place with good food and great beaches. The perfect place to relax. As the fifth least visited country on earth, we also had the beaches completely to ourself and felt very welcome, being about the only tourists there. Our accomodation for...Read More
Micronesia, which we hoped to become the highlight of our around the world trip has become a bit of a dissapointment for us. Not because there was little to do here, but because the things that we wanted to do required us to go outside of our hotel room, which was hard when it was...Read More
Palau is not just an Island in the Pacific, like most people think. Palau is actually made up by more than a hundres islands, divided by shallow, turquil and warm water. The Islands look like the are elevated from the water and draped in lush tropical greenery. It is a mystery to us why...Read More
Palau is known for having some of the Worlds best dive sites, both because of its unique underwater landscape and also because of the diverse and sprawling underwater life. My instructor and dive buddies who had dived in Palau plenty of times told me that I had been lucky with the dive sites chosen for...Read More
Jellyfish lake is a unique place where you can go snorkeling with thousands of jellyfish. After kissing a few of them my lips got really numb, because the skin on the lips is so thin, but for the rest of the body you will not feel them sting at all.Read More
Manila is a huge, weird Asian – Latino hybrid with spanish names on everything, siesta culture, lots of catholic churches. It is laying on the eastern corner of Asia, feeling almost as if it was closer to Central America. The city is overwhelming and the best way to experience it is to go as if...Read More
The question that should be asked to everyone who returnes from the Philippines is did you eat balut? Balut is a Philippino dish consisting of a fertilized chicken egg that has been left for 7 days so that there is a little chicken inside. A chicken abortion in other words. And if you ask me...Read More
Beijing has proven to be a worthy finishing point for our 7000 kilometer long train ride, much so because it has been so different than any of the other stops along the way. The first thing we did when getting off was to go out and literally get a taste of what the city had...Read More
The Great Firewall of China is widely heard of, creating frustration among travelers who want to share their holiday memories or just get in touch with those back home. The pages and programs that are blocked include Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Gmail, Blogger and so on, and it is not only in China that these pages...Read More
Our fantastic group on the Vodkatrain tour Ruski Huski Getting up at 5 AM, just two hours after we came home from the clubs was tough. The minibus that was going to take us to the train station was waiting at the agreed time and the people already awake had to run around knocking on...Read More
Arriving in the Worlds coldest capital at 5 o’clock in the morning, we had plenty of time to check out what the city had to offer on our first day there. First off was a walk through the city center, which probably took us around half an hour, as the city (even though it has...Read More
The highlight that many people had been looking forward to was to visit a traditional Mongolian ger camp to sleep in so called “yurts” like the nomadic Mongolians still use today. These round shaped tents, along with horses and cows running freely were a common sight on the three and a half hour drive between...Read More
The group with our Honcho in the front. Ready for departure from Irkutsk Getting on the train in the late evening was great, just getting to bed, wake up and have around a third of the train ride over with in just one sleep. The Mongolian trains were also a bit different, where the toilets...Read More
