South East Asia

Hmmm… What's there to see in Manila? Couldn't find anything… ;)just another big city…(but I needed some time to "really" do nothing again…)

WOW. this was a nice trip. Again - see the Video "Diving in the Philippines" in the video section. Such a lovely group and really well organized by JC and Sito! Thanks so much to everyone. Don't know what else to add to this what you cannot see on the video - but if...

While in Boracay I was thinking what other islands I should visit. Unfortunately I already decided that there isn't enough time for "Palau" and "Chuuck" (diving) so I was deciding in between Palawan and Cebu… I chose Cebu for diving. Wanted to go to Malapascua to see...

After a very exhausting travel from HCMC/Saigon to here (21 hours - 36hours awake - due to bad planing on my side) I arrived in Boracay. What a lovely beach - and very great nightlife - and good (not fantastic) diving. Shishas at nearly every bar (ok, very expensive...

Last day in HCMC/Saigon. Started of with sleeping in (didn't sleep well the last 3 nights in Phu Quoc and Can Tho because of Waves/boat-noise) 🙂 - Then a Shisha, then to the Saigon Skydeck on the 49th floor of the Bitexco Financial Tower and then to 4 different...

Nice little Island - apparently one of the best places in Vietnam for relaxing and beaches. It's supposed to be Phuket but 10 years earlier. Well, the first thing: visit during the dry season - not the wet season like I did :)The island was quiet - very quiet - very...

5.00am start!!!! How stupid am I? This is supposed to be vacation! But the reason was to see the sunrise on the Mekong and also the floating market which is much bigger than yesterday. We didn't see a sunrise (or the sun for that matter 🙂 ) - but apparently the...

First day of a 2 day Mekong Delta Tour with my private tour guide Jason. 7:30 start and then a nice drive with a lot of information to Cai Be. There we spent a lot of time on a boat on the Mekong delta. Visiting the "floating market" (like a marketplace on the river...

… views from Henry's flat … nice … Henry showed me many places. Really cool. Great nightlife with many bars with live-music (the first one we went to featured a kind of Vietnamese Heavy Metal band - how cool is that!). In that weekend we managed to visit ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu_Chi_tunnels Felt like in all those movies 🙂 - Amazing how small they are! (the ones you/a westerner can go through have been enlarged). All these "simple" but effective traps from the Vietcong - nearly felt sorry for the americans...

Henry was so kind to let me have his scooter for the day (and following days) - Thanks so much :)How much fun it is to drive through Saigon with a scooter - unbelievable. Initially it looks crazy - but Saigon traffic has its own rules. I really enjoyed it and traveled...

First impressions of HCMC. Staying with Henry (friend of Jan) - Thanks! The War Remnants Museum was quite shocking. Interesting to see the "other" side compared to the american "version". It's really sad what happened - and crazy what the US did to this land and it's...

Due to taking a plane instead of the bus I had one extra day in Siem Reap. As I had enough of temples I decided to visit a silk farm. The showed the whole process from the little worm to the big worm to the cocoon to the silk and weaving. Very amazing - that you can...

Got to Siem Reap by bus (6 hours) and it was a nice drive. Nevertheless, after being on the bus for 2 hours I decided to change my original plan which was to use the bus again to get to Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon (Vietnam - 13 hours!) - and booked a flight instead 🙂 As...

Interesting country/city with different architecture. I liked the houses like the palace and so. Did some sightseeing with Temples, Royal Palace, Wat Phnom, Prison S-21, Killing Fields an more. There are two main things I take from my visit:1- By visiting the prison...

Spent 4 days - really interesting and I had a great time.The Petrona Twin Towers were amazing. The tour to the skybridge and then to the top. Impressive building.I also went to the Batu Caves in the north - quite interesting and many monkeys :)Then to the KL Birdpark...

Just 2 days Singapore - but that's also sufficient. It's a city in the end :)The first evening started with a really good food. My hotel was in the center of Chinatown and I had some really spicy but delicious Korean food (spicy chicken). Next day I did a city tour...

Today Jeremy (the other divemaster candidate) and I hired a car + driver and covered A LOT of attractions of the Island: We first stopped at the water temple of Taman Ayun - where we where still discussing whether it is a UNESCO world heritage site or just the area or...

Drove to the Russian Consul on Bali today to get my Visa. Quite expensive - 120USD! (instead of 50USD if I would have gone to the embassy in Jakarta). But hey, I'm happy I was able to get the Visa while traveling.Rented a motorbike in order to get there - and that...