Gone with the backpack

Beaches and.... ....mountains You might say Sri Lanka has been hiding in plain sight. Countless scores of travellers have passed ov...

The Philippines is still one of Asia’s relatively undiscovered countries and only now are people beginning to discover its paradisiacal...

Landing in Kuala Lumpur – the first one of many future stops. At this point I didn’t know that next 3 months the city (or better sa...

I took a train from Shenzhen where my 28 hours train trip from Beijing ended and went to Fung’s flat. It was early in the morning and h...

One of the world´s oldest civilizations! Very vivid and full of colour and smell…but.. Im not planning to go back there any time soon....

Issyk-Kol What do you know about Kyrgyzstan or Kыргызстан? That´s right...nothing. Same here...before I went there.  Monster mountai...

This simple, earnest hospitality can be disconcerting at first (what are they after?), but soon becomes super-enjoyable, the care shown fo...

University students in their "blue" day After Iran the next stop of my Silk road trip and the entrance to Central Asia is T...

Azadi tower Sorry guys, this will include lots of reading but Iran impressed me a lot, no chance to make it shorter. I couchsurf...

Geghard Monastery A few facts first There are only 3 million Armenians living in Armania while 8 million live abroad. The relations ...

Kazbegi TBILISI Tbilisi was way nicer than I expected. No trace of Soviet union in the old town – really beautiful buildings, lot...

Khachapuri Adjaruli Gelati church near Kutaisi 9 th of August 2011, I got to Batumi. So the “marshrutka” dropped me off som...