This winter, we went to Cambodia and Thailand. With only three weeks in total, we ended up visiting Cambodia for only a little more than a week. Barely long enough to appreciate the beauty of the temples and the tropical countryside, and far too short to understand the miracle of traveling through a country that […]
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Desley Jane from Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist asked us where we would go to if money was not a concern. The question immediately reminded me of a book I read a few months ago in which German journalist and winner of 500.000 € in the German edition of ‘Who wants to be a […]
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The subtitle at the back of Richard l’Anson’s book is “return from your travels with the pictures you’ve always wanted”. While I haven’t been able yet to put to test everything I have learned in this book, I can say for sure that it provides many ideas and a lot of inspiration for travel photography. […]
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Before we went to Tibet, I kept reading and reading about the place, and the more I read, the more I felt that there was something that I did not understand. Being too young to know the movie, I was only able to tell that all those guide-books made allusions to a myth, a secret […]
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As travelers in Tibet, we realized that we knew very little about Tibetan history. Or, in fact, we basically knew nothing at all. Without Sam van Schaik’s book, I would have had a lot of difficulties to understand what our guide told us about the buildings and statues we saw. If you do not know […]
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The author, Andrew Skurka, defines the goal of his book in the introduction: “I wrote this book for backpackers who want to enjoy hiking more”.
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