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Thailands Backpacker Secret: Ubon ratchathani

I stayed there coming from Laos, because i wanted to see something different before i meet my girlfriend in Bangkok to travel the north and south of thailand..
Ubon Ratchathani is located in the east of Thailand, near the border to Laos.  It takes about 2 hours from the border to the town (by official bus). [...]

Teeth Whitening in Bangkok

WHITENING- In Bangkok you can read this word on many shower gels, shampoos, deo sprays and in big letters on dental clinic doors. While it is not very interesting for westerners to whiten skin, it is quite interesting to whiten teeth.. especially for an unbeatable price..
They promise painless, fast (30 - 60 minutes), secure (harmless [...]

Saigon: Motorbike city

Some tipp in advance: be sure to fill out the blue/white arrival card (available in the plane), no matter if you have a visa or not. If you don’t, you may end up like me standing in a queu for 20min twice!
Saigon has terrible traffic, thousands and ten thousands of motorbikes. finding their ways through [...]

flights, airports and terrible jetlag

So thats the first post i write from Vietnam. Actually since now i had either no time or the internet connections were so slow that i could hardly open any sites. Vietnam kids like to play online, so they may block the whole line
Both flights from Emirates from Zurich to Dubai and Dubai to [...]

Switzerlands mountains

Going the tourist paths in my home country was a long time not my cup of tea. But going on the right time and ignoring the sometimes ridiculous prices can make it a nice experience.
So we went to the top of Switzerland famous mountain “Säntis”, located in the eastern part of switzerlands alps. In my [...]

Visa for Laos

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I wrote in an earlier article, that i will get a visa for Laos also in advance.
Well i did some research and asked some people who where there. Despite the info of the travel agent, no visa in advance is needed.
You can get a visa on arrival right at the boarders (overland) or [...]

Weekend Trip to Munich

I had a very nice weekend with my girlfriend in Munich, the capital of Germanies “Bundesland” Bavaria.
We stays for 3 nights in the Westfalia Pension, which is located at the end of the Mozartstrasse. Must be very popular during the Octoberfest, because it is right at the Wies’n area. The Pension itself was quite nice, [...]

Organising visas for Vietnam, Laos and Thailand

I was at the travel agent last friday to get my flight ticket from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City and got some information about the visas i have to get before i leave.
To tell you my plans: I got a flight to Bankgkok at 1. January evening, return flight is at the end of [...]

beware! another blogger around :-)

very well, just managed to setup wordpress.. since i heard so many good things about that system, it was my first choice. At the moment just with standard design and plugins, but i’ll change that later.
The reason to setup this blog is to write some exiting stories in there while i’m travelling around in south [...]