WE ARE ON THE WAY TO NOWHERE AND EVERYWHERE…
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After 320 days, almost 11 months, the long-awaited day arrived when we arrived back home. On the morning of June 8, our plane landed at Tallinn Airport. We were quite zombies as from Turkey we flew home via Norway and had to spend half a night at Oslo Airport (not recommended to anyone since the …
After three days in Istanbul, we flew on to Antalya, where we had booked a long hotel vacation. Although Antalya Airport is not very far from the city center and the taxi is relatively cheap, we decided to use a tram which was even cheaper. For this, you need to buy a one-time ticket or …
Arriving in Istanbul, Turkey, already made Europe feel like home. Our airport was on the Asian side of Istanbul but we immediately took a taxi across the Turkish Straits to our accommodation on the European side. Kaija had found us accommodation with a local Turkish man, Sinan, through Couchsurfing. Another Mexican couple stayed at his …
When we arrived at Mirissa we were quite tired of a long bus ride. We wanted to get to the hotel quickly and get the room and have dinner. It was obvious that this city suffers from a lack of tourists due to recent events in Sri Lanka. There were few tourists and most hotels …
One of the major goals of Sri Lanka’s visit apart from the train was to visit one of the national parks. We decided between various national parks. One of the parks we were considering to visit is Sri Lanka’s most famous Yala National Park. While reading different reviews and blogs, we still decided to take …
Sri Lanka came to our travel plans when we started looking for different routings for our journey back home. Initially, we had taken a plan to definitely go to India. However, since we wanted to get home by at least by mid-June, we could only have been in India for just two weeks. However, for …
We exchanged the 1.5 million people capital city of Cambodia against 8 million people capital city in Thailand. At Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, we were welcomed by a familiar long immigration queue. Until now, we have been quite quickly through immigration, but in Bangkok, we stayed for over an hour. Since we landed at night, …
We travel from Koh Rong Samolem to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. To do this, we first had to ride the ship to Sihanoukville, where we went to the bus. We were able to book bus tickets right from the harbor. Regardless of the higher price, we decided to take a VIP bus, …
With this blog post, we first have to tell the story of how we end up the idea of visiting Cambodia. We actually wanted to fly to Myanmar from Malaysia. We dreamed of Myanmar already from the beginning of the trip. We had heard a lot of good about this country and that the local …
From Penang, we took a ferry to Langkawi Island. Langkawi is located in northern Malaysia, just off the border with Thailand, and is famous as the so-called local resort island. So, we hoped Langkawi just to rest and enjoy the sun. We managed it quite well except for some rainy afternoons. Fortunately, we arrived at …