Life among the lilies
During the rainy season, when the water levels get so high that the house is waist-deep in water, Monimala helps her husband to pile waterlilies on top of each other in the floodwaters. Over this heap...
View ArticleBuzzing Bangkok
The taxis are pink, the tuk tuks are large enough to sleep in, the ladyboys prettier than a beauty queen, the food is amazing, everyone is brimming with laughter and smiles, the city is clean and so...
View ArticlePrecious forest
We look to rent a good off-road bike but end up with a 100cc scooter with a broken petrol guage and speedo. We get a new inner tube for the rear tyre, get pumped and head out of Thakek on a 3-hour...
View ArticleRich in poverty
We follow our Mekong down the country until it shatters into a thousand rivulets, rapids and waterfalls at Si Phan Don (Four Thousand Islands). We stay in a sleepy village on Don Khone island and soon...
View ArticleIndia still
So there was a cockup with our tickets and Addis will have to wait a couple of days – we’re back in Delhi. Leaving India always turns out to be surprisingly hard. Still, it gives us time to prepare for...
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