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Sex Tourism in South East Asia
What is sex tourism? ‘I ordered Beer Lao. Then he said “I have lady for you”, I said “sure”. That’s how easy it was.. I only paid about $20-$25 a day to the lady!’ Sex tourism is the act of travelling to procure sexual services. It involves a lot of different scenarios, countries, nationalities, ages, … Continue reading
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After collecting our Chinese Visa in Vientiane, we leave the relaxed capital (about 800.000 people) North. We travel to Vang Vieng, a “backpacker`s paradise”, of which we will write a bit more soon. We visit Phonsavan and Sam (Xiam) Neua in the North-East and learn about the “Secret War” of the Americans and the caves of the Lao … Continue reading
Nam ist working for COPE, a not-for-profit organisation in Vientiane, Laos. COPE is providing rehabilitation services to people in Laos who lost bodyparts due to cluster bombs. There are still 78 million active cluster bombs in Laos, injuring and killing several hundred people each year. The COPE visitor center in Vientiane is definately worth visiting … Continue reading
The Mekong rises in the “Three Rivers Area” on the Tibetan Plateau, together with the Yangtze and Salween Rivers. It runs through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam – 4,909 km (3,050 miles). It is the world’s 10th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia. It drains an area of 795,000 km2 (307,000 sq mi), providing especially poor … Continue reading
Final destination 200 meters after the border The Thai visa is stamped and simultaneously confirms our Thai departure. In front of us lies the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, built by the Thai government in 1995 and opened in 1997, which functions as border crossing.This friendship has proved most rewarding to Thai traders who are supposed to … Continue reading
After Singapore, Malaysia is calling! Initially we suspect that a return to a life of ‘tramping’ is inevitable, sat scruffily atop our bags at Malacca bus terminal growing fearful about the absence of our couchsurfing host. Fortunately, flashbacks to the wheeling and dealing of Indonesia are cut short by the arrival of a fleet of … Continue reading
After having left the beautiful beaches in the South of Thailand, we arrived in busy Bangkok. One of the most visited sights in the capital is the Temple of Emerald Buddha which is the most important Buddhist temple in Thailand and includes a Buddha image meticulously carved from a single block of jade. The largest … Continue reading
Hospitality is as old as civilization itself, travelling was partaken to further trade or religion and those spreading tangible or intangible commodities needed somewhere to crash, hence, the birth of the guesthouse. Happily this system rolled on for thousands of years, billions of overnight stays tallied up and people around the globe connected. With new … Continue reading
After our relatively short stay in Malaysia we cross into Thailand. A train takes us from the border to Jerantut where we head towards the beautiful Andaman Sea. After spending a few days exploring Ko Lanta, a boat brings us to the busy and world-famous Ko Phi Phi islands. Leonardo DiCaprio`s famous Beach is covered with … Continue reading
From Singapore we entered Malaysia. Our first stop was Melakka, an medival city, once occupied by the Portuguese, Dutch and the British. We then headed north to Kuala Lumpur to bring in the new year. Afterwards we went to Taman Negara Nationalpark, a 130 million years old jungle.
Confucius wrote that ‘In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.’ This struck a chord with us during our latest week of travel. Having journeyed through swathes of Indonesia populated by people living a hand to mouth existence we … Continue reading
Yeahhhhh!!! We reached the €3,000 mark and want to thank everybody who donated and supported travel4more.org during the last 3 months with this small preview of the travel4more-video. We hope you join us for the rest of the journey!
Our time in Indonesia ends with a visit to Jakarta and Yogyakarta, the cultural center of Java. The nearby tempels Prambanan and Borobudur are both UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia, and is one of the largest Hindu temples in Southeast Asia. Borobudur is a 9th-century Buddhist temple. We spend the … Continue reading
5 minutes with Hari – a Javanese sulpher miner. The work in a sulpher mine is hard and dangerous – but someone has to do it…
The East of Java has 2 amazing highlights to offer: Gunung Bromo is an active volcano and part of the Tengger massif. At 2,329 metres (7,641 ft) it is not the highest peak of the massif, but the most well known. The Ijen Crater lies only 5 hours east of Mt. Bromo and is one of … Continue reading
The success of our fundraising for just-one in Kathmandu, Nepal has been amazing, when we first contacted the organisation to discuss our plans to raise money we thought that it would take 9 months to reach our target of € 3,000. Thankfully we were wrong and due to some unbelievable generosity we have almost reached our target … Continue reading
We travel via Kupang (West Timor) to East Timor. From there it takes us 5 long days to travel back west through West Timor, Flores, Sumbawa, Lombok and Bali in order to finally reach Java. The market pictures were taken on Lombok`s biggest market (in Malang).
Have you ever sat in front of a thousand scattered jigsaw fragments, daunted by the challenge? Well East Timor is a vast socio-geographic version of that test and as you enter the capital Dili, you fear that the last remaining pieces of the puzzle may be out of reach. Disco bus from Bajawa to … Continue reading
In our current installment of “5 minutes with…” we talk to Leh – a Komodo dragon guide on Rinca Island in the Komodo National Park.
Starting in Flores with a trip to Rinca to see the famous Komodo Dragons, we traveled east through Ruteng and Bajawa before catching a 17 hour ferry to Kupang, West Timor .
There are only four small islands to see them on in the whole world, and all four sit in close proximity, a few hours away from Flores, Indonesia. They are the stuff of legend, enormous beyond belief and man eating in their ferocity. They are Komodo Dragons, the largest lizards on earth. Such a short … Continue reading
Our second and last flight of the entire journey drops us into heady, aromatic, crazy and always amazing Asia. Our mouths burn from the spice-laden street food, our ears bleed with the constant rumble of a million of scooters, olfactory senses are laid siege to by the pungent, combating smells while beauty and sorrow sourced … Continue reading
After Bali we head east to the Gili Islands, which are located north-west of Lombok. The triplet of islands (Gili Meno, Gili Aire and Gili Trawangan) are popular amongst individual travellers and are a hotspot for divers. Taking a ferry back to Lombok we travel through this green island and climb up to the crater rim … Continue reading
In our next installment of “5 minutes with…” we speak to Gede, an Indonesian fisherman from Bali (Lovina). Although we voiced our concern for the dolphins (up to 20 motorboats trying to locate them in one morning), we would like to emphasize that it is important to pay fair prices to local people (this is … Continue reading
One of the prejudges Australia has to fight is a lack of culture. And, although the cities look new and lack older architecture, Australia`s history and culture is one of the oldest and richest. It`s the story of the Aborigines, the indigenous people of Australia, who have inhabited the continent for the past 50,000 years. … Continue reading
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