The short afternoon hop to Bagan had no surprises. A pleasant, short - even for Myanmar standards - driver took us to the excellent  Areindmar Hotel in new Bagan, a great difference from the rather indifferent hotels we slept in Yangon and Mandalay. The weather was...
The morning hours are the best in Myanmar. Clear skies, a pleasant breeze and intriguing house cooking odors. After a full breakfast at the hotel’s roof garden we went to the Kyauk Taw Gyi pagoda with the resident, imposing marble Buddha image, made from a single...
The early morning flight to Mandalay was our first in Myanmar, so there was a fair amount of uncertainty involved. The national flights terminal will certainly look familiar to seasoned travelers: small, basic, with signs in completely incomprehensible script and no...
I always wanted to visit India, so mystical and different than the west, a land of many attractions. We decided to do it in March 2012. The planning took longer than usual in order to combine some culture, a safari and the beach. Then I thought that it would be a pity...
We decided to spend our last week in the Indian subcontinent in Havelock, part of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. Only few of them are open to tourism and Havelock is home of the famous beach no. 7 or Radha Nagar, the best beach in Asia according to the...
The Himalayan Express Today I woke up feeling a little better. The schedule included the must-do flight to the Himalaya peaks and then a visit to Bhaktapur and Patan. We boarder the Yeti Airlines BAÂ Jetstream-41 for a one hour flight to the Everest and back, with a...
We arrived in Kathmandu after a short one hour flight from Delhi to realize that there is a 15 min time difference to India, where again there is a +30 min time difference to Pakistan and -30 min difference to Bangladesh! It is remarkable to what extend nations will...
It was a long drive from Delhi to the Jim Corbett NP. We left Delhi shortly after noon and took seven hours for the 250km to the Corbett Hideaway. It did not help that the Tigers in Corbett driver did not speak a word of English. Later, Ramesh, the head of the...
The next morning we had to leave to Jim Corbett national park but we had three hours to spend in New Delhi. We preferred to skip the monuments and drive to the old market to get a feeling of everyday life. On the way to the center, we passed by a slum. The situation...
Early in the start from Jaipur. On the way to Agra we stopped in Fatehpur Sikri, the short-lived capital of the Mughal empire that was abandoned shortly after its completion due to paucity of water. It is definitely worth a stop, as it is one of the best preserved...