Category: on the road
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Monkey business
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Today I went up to Prao. This is a town about an hour and a half North of Chiang Mai. Actually it is a whole Ampoe, or district hidden behind mountains. Driving from Chiang Mai I pass Mae Jo and then later drive over some hills that leads to Prao.…
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Legoland
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"Have I shrunk in the kids play room?" No we made the trip to the Legoland in Germany near Ulm. We were visiting friends in Stuttgart the day before. As a child it was my dream to go to Legoland. It took twenty years to finally see this dream fulfilled.…
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Laupen
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We are in Switzerland for a week now. It is just beautyful here. The air is so clean and the landscape is like a piece of art. The other day we went to Laupen. A little town half an hour from Berne. My father grew up there and I used…
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Back in Chiang Mai
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I came back from Laos last Sunday. I can’t believe that another week has past. We were so busy with moving and painting the new office that I didn’t get to write on the blog.Yes we moved from a room 2×3 meters to a little two story townhouse. Thomas has…
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Luang Pabang
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We arrived in Luang Prabang after a six hour bus ride over uncounted mountains. We passed many hill tribe villages and soldiers with their AK 47’s. David told me that some Swiss got shot on his bicycle a view years ago by Rebels. Very comforting. My mind went into imagining…
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Tubing in Vang Vieng
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Vang Vieng is crowded with back packers. There are a view things you can do. Like kayaking, river rafting climbing and trekking. The most cherished for the travelers seems to be tubing. With a tractor tube they are dropped of five kilometers up river. The tubers the jump into the…
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Vang Vieng
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We arrived in Vang Vieng after four hours. The bus ride from Vientiane was alright. Even the air con worked.The county looks quite poor, but clean. There are barely any beggars. Very similar to Thailand except less developed.The bus drove into the yard of a guest hose in Vang Vieng…
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Vientienne
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Yesterday I and David (a friend from Switzerland) arrived in Vientiane Laos. We got picked up by mark who works here. Laos is in big contrast to Thailand and reminds me a lot of Cambodia. At least when I was there in 1992. Vientiane is the Capitol of Laos. We…