I really like Couchsurfing. I met so many people thanks to that website. I hosted 3 lovely girls and went out for drinks and parties with random people many times. I have never had any bad experiences until yesterday… I enjoy being with others, socialising, talking, drinking. I need people around me. Travelling by myself […]
One of the reasons why I came to Australia was to see the kangaroos and koalas. They are one of my favourite animals (I also love hippos), so a trip to Oz wouldn’t be complete without spotting a skippy, or a sleepy, gumtree eating cute bear. I imagined I would go to the zoo, or […]
I was advised by a friend of mine to take a long tail boat from Ko Tao to Ko Nang Yuan, a small island, which is pretty popular with divers. I got up in the morning and went to the beach to look for a boat, which could take me there. I didn’t have to […]
When I was around 7 years old my dad went to Australia for a year, where he worked on a farm. He came back tanned, relaxed and in owe of the things he’d seen. Till this day he says that Australia is the best country he has ever been to. No wonder then that visiting […]
Koh Tao didn’t blow me away. It was nice, relaxing, but it was too expensive, there were too many western style pubs and bars and too many 25 year old American/Canadian tourists with huge egos, who spoke with a certain way, finishing every sentence with a question mark. All they were talking about was getting […]
Wat Arun means The Temple of Dawn and is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Bangkok. It was called after Aruna, the Indian God of Dawn. The building represents the Mount Meru, the centre of the world in Buddhist cosmology. The temple is located on the Thonburi west side of the Chao Praya River […]
I’ve been travelling solo around Asia as a single woman for the past two years. If you don’t know what I do for a living, I travel around Southeast Asia reviewing hotels and writing travel articles for the AsiaRooms Community, an online travel community. My job has taken me from the bustling markets of Bangkok […]