Attending a funeral in Tana Toraja
Funerals in Sulawesi are quite special. I couldn’t explain it better than TED did: In Tana Toraja in eastern Indonesia, funerals are raucous affairs involving the whole......
10 days living like Buddhist monks in Chaiya
Before we left I decided to follow various travel blogs as a source of inspiration. One night I read about the silent retreat in Chaiya, Thailand and......
Celebrating Loy Krathong in Chiang Mai
We’ve been to Chiang Mai a few times but the Loy Krathong festival (also known as Yee Peng) in November was definitely the highlight of......
Celebrating Thingyan in Yangon
April in Myanmar is hot. Scorching hot. It’s not only the sun that burns but also the air that surrounds you… it is constantly warm.......
Playing Holi
Holi was not as I expected. Luckily. A lot of online articles tell women not to participate in Holi in the big cities. That’s why we chose......
Stay like a local in a peasant Hindu village
We were well informed by the Airbnb ad: your stay will be basic (no mattress or running water), nobody speaks English, it’s a bit of......