In Laos we have spent almost whole June (2017). Which means we were there at the beginning of a rainy season. It was consequently raining every day. Downpours come suddenly but with different intensity and can easily disturb hitchhiking, scooter ride, trekking in the middle of a jungle or a regular walk. You can imagine…
Myanmar (also known as Burma) has only recently opened up for tourism. For a couple of years now it is gaining on popularity and attracts tourists from different parts of the world. Regulations concerning visa processing as well as prices and tourism infrastructure changes quite rapidly here. But if you dream about Myanmar undiscovered (which…
White man in India is perceived as a millionaire. In every place you feel that someone wants to take some money from you. Despite the fact that for entrances we pay 10 or even 20 times more than Indie citizens, Whiteys (that is how we described ourselves there :P) overpay for almost everything: food, drinks,…
This advice is mostly for the travelers who have a rather low budget, so if you do not belong to those feel free to skip this part. We came to Myanmar directly from India where it was cheap in the first place plus coach surfing works really well there, so it helped making some savings.…
One of the attractions on which we spent not a lot of money was Backwaters. Both agencies and locals offer quite expensive tours on well equipped boats. On the boat there is a chef preparing food, alcohol and you do not need to care about anything. Houseboat, that is how is it called, is like…
In Nepal we realized for the first time how important is the insurance while travelling. How important it is to be aware of the fact that in case of anything one can always call and get some advice. That there is always someone who will tell you were to go to get help. We have…
Before every trip, longer or shorter, some of the technical-equipment cases need to be considered. We also had a lot of them. We spent a long time on reading opinions on blogs, professional websites, on consultations in professional stores and finally we decided! We were thinking if it is worth investing in shoes or isn’t…
What does it even mean? Well, we hurry up to explain, or actually no, we do not hurry up, we just explain 😉 Nepali time is not just time, it’s more like a perception of time. It’s an expression describing the lifestyle, the way you are and work and the most important thing about it…
If you are going to Iran….. book more time for that trip. Add at least one week or even two for the time that you planned and it should be ok. When we were establishing in Poland an initial trip plan and Maciek mentioned that we shall spent 3 weeks in Iran I grabbed my…
Armenians and Georgians has their own languages but most of them use well also Russian what is very helpful for Polish tourists 🙂 We have never learned that language of soviet empire but we learnt some few rules and words quicker that we could imagine 🙂 So YES it’s very useful to spend some time…