A few hours south of Hue, Hoi An was a delightful experience. We wandered the picturesque cobbled streets, only stopping for a juice at the terrace of a small cafe with decrepit yellow walls and blue blinds. A short Vespa ride and we were fighting the heat by taking a nap around the swimming pool. Delicious smells of [...]

“Dragon a 10 heures! Dragon!” Lagredin shouted at the crew of the “Avalanse” on a scorching day of the 1898 summer. Since that day, the bay is called Halong Bay or the Bay of the Descending Dragon. Magical dragon aside, there is definitively some mystery in Halong Bay. We cruised the bay during 3 days, spending 1 night [...]

After visiting Saigon, we headed on to the Mekong delta, Vietnam’s rice basket, a wonderful landscape of green fields criss-crossed by brown canals. While most travellers visit the Mekong on an organised tour, we prefered to travel on our own. The tickets for the local bus were a little difficult to get – with agencies trying [...]

In Vietnam, people do everything on a motorbike. They commute on a motorbike, dads their kids to school on a motorbike, they produce and transport their products on a motorbike – and they even flirt on a motorbike. As one local explain to us: No motorbike, no girlfriend. With 3 millions motorbikes for 7 millions inhabitants, the [...]

After a few days in chaotic Hanoi, we boarded another night train, heading south. After an 12 hour journey at 50 km/h max, we finally reached Hue, the capital of the Nguyen emperors, located on the Central Coast of Vietnam. The imperial city is charming and comparatively quiet after Hanoi’s incessant touts, with its grand, crumbling Citadel [...]

We thought the Vietnamese border will only be a short bus ride away. After all, Hekou is only a mere 197km away. How wrong were we! It was a grueling route over bumpy dirt roads, on board of a taxi-bus stopping every kilometer. Along the route the bus was stopped by donkeys, chicken and pigs… we [...]

After the Polaroid Project experience in Russia, we were expecting similar difficulties in China… Thankfully, the weather was ‘a bit’ less freezing and snowy, nothing really that the Polaroid camera couldn’t handle. Getting a stamp in a local post office proved to be a nightmare… Hopefully, but we found some old/fake Mao stamps at the flea market. Perfect [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts recently… I have taken loads of photos but couldn’t find the time to sort them out. Will upload them soon…too tired/lazy right now. In the meantime, I found these amazing photos while fishing for information on the internet and thought I had to share them with you. They are from Chinese [...]

Love your beef steak sizzling on the BBQ? Well, have a look at how the Hani tribes are preparing a buffalo on market day in Duoyishu, Yunnan, China. The village markets in Yunnan are sure to offer an eyeful and bellyful too! But you are lucky, we turned down other tasty market snacks, including chicken feet and pig’s [...]

After a week in Beijing, time to go south, to Yunnan. After a night in Kunming, we board an old overnight bus… Rustic comfort of course, but that’s good fun! Waking up at 4am, we are thrown in an old salun motuoche (motor tricycle), heading off to the sunset at Yuanyang Xinjie, somewhere about 200km from the [...]