Every day you make decisions that affect the worldDuring travelling in Asia, it’s easy to observe and notice human impact for the environment. Mountains of the rubbish, rainforest burning, polluted water, dams on rivers, smog, animals as mascots… Enough? Every day we make decisions, also on holidays or when we travel. Decisions from where we …
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Acording to the statistics, Laos is one of the poorest country in the world. Really?We stayed over there only 2 weeks but for sure, we feel like going back. This time, we visited only north part of Laos and our TOP 10 is about that. In Laos everybody says Baw pen nyaaaaaaaaaang!Which means – NO PROBLEM. …
It is impossible to spend a couple of days in Sri Lanka without talking about Sri Lankan Cuisine. When we arrived on this big island of Indian Ocean, we did not know what to expect about food. We were thinking about kind of Indian cuisine but when you know that there are many types of …
Tea routeThere is so much behind this definition… always green hills of South-West China; Tibetan horses; tea plantations – green and pu’erh; war with hordes of Genghis Khan. Carriers and the ROAD ‘Chamagudao’, through wild forest and frozen mountains, through highlands at 5000 m high, ended in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet (3656m). Looking how …
Laos and Weaving, an inseparable storyThere are some countries you visit and in which traditions are hardly hidden. While crossing Laos from Boten (border with China) to Luang Prabang, we discovered a rural Laos. On our way to meet local families, we crossed hilly landscapes, with small and bigger rivers and a strong tropical green …
When talking about sustainable and responsible tourism, it is common to hear about ecotourism. Indeed, taking into account ecological and environmental aspects and maintaining it for the next generations, are the beginning of a positive spiral in the development of a touristic activity.Birdwatching is an activity linked to ecotourism and we need to know what …
Lijiang, Old – New CityBecause we resigned from trekking around Emei Shen, we arrived to Lijiang few days before we planned. Emei Shen is one of the five holy mountains in China. We gave up because of the weather – snow and wind, and the cost. When we found out that for it costs more …
Xin Tuo, a « new developement »Yunnan region is a south west region of China at the border of Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Tibet. Mainly mountainous, there are around 25 minorities living in this region. The region stays under developed economically in spite of a constant growth of tourism.We must say – and we only saw Lijiang …
On our way from North to South (don’t forget that we have India on target 🙂 and already more than 12000 km behind us 🙂 ), our route was more or less defined by itself and somehow classical. A first step in Xi’An, capital of the empire for many dynasties. A second step in Chengdu, …
Good choice or not ?Plan a trip. Build the route. Make your mind roaming until things get alive. Relate moments to the draws of our minds. There is something fascinating about traveling, something powerful.When the opportunity of crossing China came to us… we firstly saw an opportunity of experiencing a cultural shock. Under a lot of …
When we decided to go from Russia to China, we started to have a look on travel forums to get information about the border… To be honest, whatever the language (English, Polish and French) we did not get too much information… It was really poor and very difficult to figure out how is to cross …
When we started to plan this trip/project, the first destination that came to our mind was India…We were ready to stay few months in order to be able to visit a bigger part of this huge country as well as to be sure to meet this attractive culture… the decision to realize a HopTour with …