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In this blog we will share our experiences from our trips around the world. Since December 2015 our focus has been on travel. We are planning to be on the road until August 2018, what happens after that we will find out then. // Christel & Johan
(Goa India, 8-24th of March )
To travel to Goa is like coming home. The beach is wide and clean, the ocean is warm and the food is amazing.
(Pushkar and Jodhpur, India, 4-8th of March)
From Jaipur our daughter Moa went on by her self to Goa and we continued on to Pushkar, another one of those Indian holy cities by a lake. Pushkar is much smaller than Varanasi and a bit more laid back than Rishikesh.
The town is filled with “hippie wannabees”, a lot of them with dreadlocks, walking barefoot down the streets.
and a bunch of holy men – some of them very interested in your money.
(Jaipur, India, 1-3rd of March)
We spent some fantastic days in the big buzzling city of Jaipur. This city is mostly known as “the pink city” – as many of the houses in the old part of the city are pink.
(New Delhi, India, 21-28th of February)
We flew from Phnom Penh to New Delhi and checked in to our hotel in Chowdy Chok, a modern hotel but situated a bit “off the grid”. Even if the hotel was fancy the only dinner options were the hotels restaurant or the shabby places down at the metro station.
(Halong Bay , Vietnam, 3-4th of February)
We had booked our trip to Halong Bay through our hotel. We were picked up at the hotel by a minibus and started the four hour long trip down to the coast. We were a group of people from Europe and South America together with a driver and our guide, named Thang. Along the way we stopped at a touristy handicraft shop where we were let off in one end of the shop and picked up in the other one, all to make us shop as much as possible. (However, we used Johans method for shopping, “If you have not decided that you need it before you leave home, then you do not by it”, so we did not buy anything at all :-))
What a touristy place we arrived to. Wven if if it is low season in Vietnam at the moment the pier was filled with tourists and the harbour crowded with hundreds of ships, looking almost the same.
Our ship was not directly at the pier and we had to take a small transport boat to get to our big boat. Read More