Personal experiences - Where you now, Jordi?

19 Mar 2019

Keur Yakaar, the hotel & restaurant that trains young locals in the tourism business

After having left from Senegal already, one of the sweetest memories I have from this trip I have to say it’s definitely my stay at Keur Yakaar, even if when I was in the plane on the way there I...

18 Aug 2018

Eid al-Adha / Kurban bayram: How we experienced in Indonesia and Tajikistan the Feast of the Sacrifice

With this year’s Ramadan that just started yesterday, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the three Ramadans that we lived during our long trip, the first in Turkey, the second in Cambodia —where we barely noticed it, as only...

06 Dec 2017

How to survive a train in unreserved class in India

As you probably know, in India we took a little break from hitchhiking. On the one hand we thought that the country was huge and that we wanted to see as much as we could of it, on the other...

16 Oct 2017

Trekking guide from Altyn Arashan to Ala Kol: Happy, even if we couldn’t finish it!

There are some days that you wake up full of energy and everything that you have in mind seems so possible. And the day of this trekking was definitely one of them. The afternoon before we had walked quite easily...

09 Jan 2017

Celebrating the Buddhist New Year in Vientiane

During the month that we spent in Thailand, every time we were asked how long we would stay around, we got tired of hearing what a pity we would not be there for Songkran and that we would be already...

30 Nov 2016

Camping everywhere in Sri Lanka (Part II)

A few days ago I started telling you how I decided not to pay for sleeping not even one night in the two weeks I spent in Sri Lanka. In the first part, I told how I did it in...

23 Nov 2016

The experience of floating in the Dead Sea… Unbelievable!

Shortly after starting this long adventure, when we took the flight from Turkey to go to Jordan, we did not have a closed plan but there were a couple of things that we knew beforehand that we had to do...

15 Nov 2016

Camping everywhere in Sri Lanka (Part I)

I was in India, deciding where to go to pass the obligation of having to leave the country after the first ninety days to go back and be able to stay another ninety. I was not only looking for a...

17 Apr 2016

Spending our first night in a temple

We read on many blogs how many backpackers had spent nights camping in temples in Southeast Asia, and after a month in Thailand we had not yet done it. Either because we did not find any, or because asking people...