Investigative Selfism

While my colleagues were singing karaoke at the Christmas staff party, I was sleeping at the Phuket airport. And before I took that night nap I was looking at a bunch of fliers that I inevitably received with a free map. Half of those brochures were in Russian so I…

My trip to Laos was a great fun and I think I proved it in a way with my other blog entries. But it wasn’t just fun. I was very interested to see this place for I do happen to know quite a bit about its history: the very contemporary…

“Let’s all meet up tomorrow and bike to a waterfall that’s pretty close to here, what do you think?” asked Luc, a fellow traveller who I met just a day ago here, in Luang Prabang, and with whom we had a great time celebrating his birthday that evening. Nothing less but…

Finally, after exhausting days of tubing, eating baguettes, and trying to fall asleep when nearby clubs are still blasting music, my hostelmates and I were on a bus to Luang Prabang. Vang Vieng is a famous party place while Luang Prabang is much calmer (or so we thought at that…

As a person who enjoys partying but doesn’t think it is the most important element in life, I will throw in a mini disclaimer here: I chose to visit Vang Vieng because of its breathtaking scenery first and discovered the whole tubing thing later. Why am I writing this? To…

While all of my hostelmates agreed to go tubing together (which I will soon explain in greater detail), I and my like-minded friend Juli decided to postpone that “drink in the sun and party surrounded by astonishing views” adventure. Why? Being cultured people, we believed it would have been highly insensitive…