How time flies! It’s almost two years ago that I visited Hoi An, the rather touristy but oh so charming town on the Vietnamese central coast. The old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, …
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The lion queen
Lions aren’t supposed to climb trees, but in the Ishasha region of the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, there are lions that do just that. I was there in December 2018, and seeing them would …
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Oh, little Tira
“Now let’s see if we can find a spotted zebra“, said our guide on our morning drive in the Masai Mara. Did I hear correctly? Did he just say “spotted zebra”?? Haha, very funny! We …
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Tribute to a gnu
Thousands of gnus were running around like crazy, in all directions, abruptly changing direction, overtaking one another, running even faster – it looked like a mad dance. It was a very wet late afternoon on …
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Sunrise at Wat Phou
The guide came to pick us up at 4:30 am and it was so dark that it was actually difficult to find the way from our bungalow to the reception area where he was waiting. …
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Hidden gems
After a rather long drive on pot-holed roads covered in red dust, we got out of the car in the middle of a rubber plantation, but it looked as though the whole plantation was scarred, …
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All day enlightenment in Langres
Langres is a lovely little place to stop, or why not stay the night?, if you travel through north-eastern France, perhaps on your way to nearby wine districts (Champagne, Burgundy) or to sample and stock …
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The enchanting chanting
Eight years ago I visited lovely Luang Prabang in Laos for the first time. Ever since I wanted to go back, and now I was there, for four days, as part of a month’s tour …
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The toothbrush and the lady
Every day in Cambodia my fantastic guide Len brought me to visit something or someone out of the ordinary. On this particular day during our stay in Mondulkiri, a province in the eastern part of …
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The bird that won my heart
There were so many colourful birds in Uganda, sunbirds, orioles, bee eaters, kingfishers, one more beautiful than the other (see my blog post Birds, birds, birds), but for some reason none of these stunning little creatures …
