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October 2017 - April 2018
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    Hotel move in Siem Reap and rest day

    February 4, 2018 in Cambodia ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    It was a rather relaxed day for us today. We went to a German bakery for breakfast (“Bang Bang Bakery”) - but then both took a bagel :-)))) Coffee was quite good as well and, thus, we stayed until 11:30 and read our magazines.

    Afterwards we changed the hotel - the first one was good and the staff very friendly but we
    a) wanted a pool and
    b) reckoned that 43$/night for 2 people in a 5* hotel wasn’t that bad of a deal ;-)

    Hotel was great as well and we relaxed a bit before venturing our into the city for more coffee and cake. Then came yoga and pool time.

    For dinner Bertram chose a really nice Khmer restaurant with very few but authentic and fresh dishes. I ordered vegetables with fried rice flour as a starter and rice dumplings with chives as a main dish - they were very much the same dish, just in different forms :-) While the starter was a pancake from rice flour and coconut with vegetabkes on top, the main was the photo attached: three fried rice flour-coconut balls with veggies on the side. Indeed, it was even very much identical to Bertram’s starter - just 3 different names ;-) However, the taste and texture were really great and Bertram was also happy with the Beef lok lak. All in, the cost including drinks ended up $21.50 which was very fair!

    We then went around the night market but soon decided that this Mallorca-style party feeling paired with cheap mass goods and repetitive “Lady, good price for you” and “Sir, need tuk tuk now” was not for us. The only fun thing we may still try: fish spas where fish in tanks eat away the dead skin of your feet. 🤔

    Home at the hotel we failed to launch the “Tomb Raider” movie - maybe another time    Read more

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    Visit Banteay Srei + relaxed afternoon

    February 5, 2018 in Cambodia ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

    We started early with our tuk tuk driver Mr. Coin towards the lesser known, smaller but very well preserved temple “Banteay Srei” (Girls’ Temple) in the north of Siem Reap.

    The journey was pleasant but even with the tuk tuk tool more than 1:15 - glad we did not venture out with the bikes...

    The temple was quite stunning: it is indeed much smaller, but the site has been reconstructed to display the original landscape. Thus, we walked past rice paddies and small lakes besides visiting the temple. The red sandstone was a different material compared to what we had seen in Angkor Wat and the carvings were much more elaborate. Many scenes depicted ancient Hindu myths and thanks to a great documentation center we understood who the figures were! (Also different to Angkor Wat where we did not see anything like this on-site.)

    We returned around 01:00 pm and Bertram went to relax at the pool while Anna ventured into town for a cashew latte and almond cake while studying a yoga book for the upcoming teacher training starting this Friday in Nusa Lembongan. Yeah :-)

    Tonight, we will go to another NGO-based restaurant near our hotel which supports the local community by training disadvantaged youth as waiters. Again, this is consumption that tastes even better :-)    Read more

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    Last day at the temples & funny fish spa

    February 6, 2018 in Cambodia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    More temples today :-) We rented bicycles for a half day (1 $ for each one) and got on the Grand Tour up to the north of Angkor. We visited a couple of smaller temples. They were built unlike the others we saw 3 days ago as the main building material was small bricks instead of larger blocks. Originally, carved stucco was mounted onto these bricks - nowadays one only sees the holes in the brick.

    I liked especially the elephant statues we saw at the temple of East Mebon as well as the hidden path along the old city wall that Bertram found when we reached the Victory Gate of Angkor and pushed our bikes up a little path. The wall went all around the moat of Angkor Thom - the former Khmer capital in the Angkor period (~900-1400). Aside from the moats which are still filled with water, there are also a lot of reservoirs. In the Angkorian Empire time, these artificial lakes were used for storing rain during the monsoon season and irrigating the rice paddies in the dry season. Today, we saw quite a few people still going to fish in it - or herd water buffaloes and cows.

    We used the rest afternoon for more time at the pool, then went into town for coffee and dinner. We went to a Khmer vegan restaurant again with a great set menu at only 10 $ 🌱

    Today’s highlight was, however, something else: we visited the fish spa :-) 🐠🐟🐠
    It was a really fun experience though getting the feet in took some courage at first :-) Also, the fish tickle the feet quite a lot from time so mental strength was required, too.

    Now, it’s time for bed as we want to get up early tomorrow to arrive in Phnom Penh in the early afternoon.    Read more

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    Travelling from Cambodia to Indonesia

    February 8, 2018 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    We spent most of today travelling from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Denpasar on Bali Island in Indonesia. The route took us via Kuala Lumpur where we had a couple of hours at the airport (we’ll be back).

    After a leisurely breakfast we took a motor-riksha to the airport. Mainly for the experience, but it was also cheaper than the taxis used - so it seems - almost exclusively by the tourists.

    All went well until at check-in, the lady at the counter wanted to see our proof of onward travel from Indonesia. Basically, Indonesia doesn’t let foreigners (travelling on a one-way ticket) come into the country unless they can show a ticket with which they will leave Indonesia again. It’s extremely stupid: if you really wanted to stay in Indonesia, having to buy a flight out of the country (and later not using it) wont stop you.

    Anyway, we, of course, didn’t have proof of onward travel. On the contrary, we were actually quite happy to be in one place for a couple of weeks and wanted to work out the details of where we would go afterwards while we stayed on our little island. Still, the last would not let us check-in, claiming she had cases where the Indonesian immigration sent people away who didn’t have proof of onward travel. So we scrambled at the airport to quickly buy the cheapest tickets we could find from Indonesia back to Kuala Lumpur. We thought of going there for a couple of days - and now those plans were being finalized while standing at the check-in counter in Phnom Penh. After we had that sorted, everything went well. Needless to say, no immigration officer in Indonesia asked us about proof of onward travel when we arrived there...

    We arrived in Bali after dark, avoided being scammed by a taxi driver (after negotiating the price in advance, he later claimed that was meant per person - yeah right), and went to bed.    Read more

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    Settling into our home for next 3 weeks

    February 9, 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Today we travelled from Bali island over to little Nusa Lembongan. It’s a small village, about 4x4 kilometers large. We took a little ferry to get here (you’re about mid-thigh-deep in the water when you board, showing us the advantages of always wearing your swimsuit here :-)).

    There’s also not a lot of cash on the island and few opportunities to pay with card. So we each picked up 10 million rupiahs (about 600 EUR) before leaving mainland Bali - easiest way to becoming a millionaire :-)

    Our place is right on the beach, a traditionally built bungalow with a bedroom and balcony on the first floor and hammocks and the bathroom on the ground floor. A nice place and easy to spend the next couple of weeks here :-)

    Anna will be completing a three-week yoga teacher training while Bertram will spend the time surfing 🏄 and enjoying beach life (see the first of many sunsets to come in the pictures).    Read more

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    Starting the Yoga Teacher Training

    February 14, 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Today is already the last day of week 1 of my yoga teacher training (YTT). It has been a fantastic experience so far and I am glad that we chose to come - Bertram has the great opportunity to go surfing nearly every day every day so that balances it out nicely :-)

    We are a group of 31 students from all around the world: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Israel, ... The only dimension without much variation is gender: 4 males only ;-)

    Our teachers at the moment are Thia from Indonesia and Megan from the USA and both are great, dedicated teachers which is a must for days that start at 05:00 and finish at 19:45 :-)

    I really enjoy the variety of our curriculum - we always start with 2.5 hours of asana (yoga poses) practice and pranayama (breathing meditation) every morning and then have posture, anatomy and teaching workshops over the day before finishing with 1 more hour of asana. The evening session features singing, meditation, yoga philosophy.
    After building the foundation and practicing very basic poses on Day 1, we are now adding 2-3 poses per day - so much so re-learn after practicing yoga for quite some time and sometimes differently.

    Friends at home: there will be new yoga teachings soon :-)    Read more

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    Rest days... aren't alwas the best days

    February 15, 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ 🌬 26 °C

    After the first week of my fun and very informative yoga teacher training, it was time for the first day off - yeah!

    Originally, we had planned to go snorkeling with the manta rays but the trip was cancelled due to the bad weather forecast with lots of wind, rain, and thunderstorms 💨 ⛈ . So, surfing wasn’t an option either. :-/

    In the end, we had a nice, relaxed day in various cafés, reading our books (still on Cambodia and its difficult history for me, some historical fiction for Bertram). Following the recommendation by Bertram’s surf buddy Fabio, we even had pizza 🍕:-)

    We also started to plan the rest of our trip, looking into the possibility to visit Laos before going to Iran as our last stop. We will let you know once we figure the flights and timing out :-)

    The evening was short again with take-away food and beer on our balcony as the yoga teacher training will start at 05:00 am for our 2.5 hour asana (yoga pose) and pranayama (breathing mediation)...

    PS: photos all look a bit alike - we will work on that ;-)    Read more

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    Yoga, surf, beach, rain Nusa Lembongan

    February 17, 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Another typical day on the beautiful island of Nusa Lembongan:

    05:00-07:30 - Yoga (Anna ;-))/sleep
    07:30-09:00 - Breakfast at EcoDeli
    09:00-11:30 - Yoga/Surf
    11:30-13:30 - swimming and lunch
    13:30-16:45 - more yoga and surf :-)
    16:45-18:15 - thunderstorms ⛈ and trying to get to a dinner place
    18:15-19:45 - Yoga/chilling :-) (while the sun sets :-))
    19:45-22:00 - Reading, travel planning, showering

    It’s nice to have that little routine which will next be broken up a little when I have 2 days off the yoga teacher training on Wednesday and Thursday next week.    Read more

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    More yoga, surf, and beach dogs :-)

    February 20, 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    More time spent on Nusa Lembongan - and it’s already the end of week 2 of the yoga teacher training :-O You will see some evidence of my practice in the pics as we are now encouraged to develop our own sequence to practice daily at home.

    We celebrated the achievement of week 2 with some radlers in a beach bar :-) and finally I painted my toe nails :-))))

    The other part of today’s post is dedicated to the many beach dogs on Nusa Lembongan that we see every day - all of which very skinny. Similar to South America, many dogs do not have a fixed home but roam around and scavenge for food/are fed by different persons every day. Or they feed on the daily offerings that the locals put into the streets every morning day to appease the gods and spirits and bring good fortune to every one who passes by.

    Tomorrow’s day off will feature a snorkeling trip to hopefully see manta rays and surfing in the afternoon, yeah!    Read more

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    Snorkeling & surf on rest day No. 2

    February 21, 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    We had a fantastic day off! After an early rise from bed we started a snorkeling trip with 10 other people from the yoga school at 07:30. It was a great experience! We first visited a garden of underwater Buddhist statues and Bertram managed to dive down for 4 meters and swim around the biggest Buddha statue in the center of the arrangement :-)

    We then went further around the Nusa Lembongan island and landed on Crystal Beach which had beautiful colored corral and thousands of fish. I highly enjoyed swimming into the large schools of tiny and medium-sized fish while Bertram chased the biggies down to the sea bed :-)

    The final two stops where dedicated to seeing the graceful, big manta rays - it was stunning! Nevertheless, it felt a bit intimidating when the manta turned around and came directly at you. They measure 2 meters across their “wings” and move pretty quickly with just one flap :-)

    The only really sad thing about the snorkeling trip was the rubbish - in the manta ray bay there were so many plastic pieces in the ocean it made you want to cry: tooth paste tubes, bottles, bags, yoghurt cups, ...

    We then went out for a 2.5 hour surf session in the afternoon which was good fun even though the waves were pretty soft which gave us a hard time to catch them :-)

    The evening ended with us running away from another of the well known tropical thunderstorms which drench you instantaneously :-) we made it to the pizza place only after seeking shelter under a hut...    Read more

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