This morning we slept a little longer, had breakfast late and then strolled a bit along the main street Malioboro in Yogyakarta.
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Our world is so incredibly beautiful and versatile and we want to explore & experience as much of it together as possible. We are Sandra and Michael from Darmstadt – commuters between full-time jobs and 30 days of vacation per year. There is a lot of wanderlust in between. And that’s why we keep pulling out into the wide or near world. Since 2012, we have been on our smaller and larger holidays by 78 Countries On travelled to all 5 continents and blog with a lot of passion about our countless adventures and experiences in our travel blog – be it from dreamlike islands, in cities of millions, on mountain peaks, in the pure wilderness or even in the depths of the oceans. Travel is our great passion and we love to get to know and write about new countries, places and cultures.
Java – Our day trip to the Prambanan Temple (Indonesia)
After visiting the Borobudur Temple this morning, the journey continued to the Prambanan Temple, which we still wanted to visit today.
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With Air Asia we went today from Singapore to the island of Java to Yogyakarta in Indonesia, where we arrived around 1 p.m.
» Read the full blog postSingapore – Marina Bay & the Singapore Flyer at night (Singapore)
This morning we were picked up by a shuttle service from our hotel in Hanoi and taken to the N’i Béi International Airport. Our next destination is: Singapore!
» Read the full blog postHalong Bay – Our two day boat ride through Halong Bay (Vietnam)
Halong Bay in Vietnam was one of the fixed points we set ourselves on our world tour from the very beginning. We had already seen so many beautiful pictures of the limestone rocks in the sea that we really wanted to experience it ourselves. And today our little 2-day trip from Hanoi to Halong Baystarted.
» Read the full blog postHanoi – Travel Guide & Things to do in the capital (Vietnam)
At around 6 p.m. today we arrived at the airport in Hanoi on time, coming from Beijing. The flight with Vietnam Airlines was nicely quiet and lasted 3 1/2 hours.
» Read the full blog postBeijing – The Forbidden City & Jingshan Park (China)
Today was a beautiful day with bright blue skies. And since our flight from Beijing to Hanoi did not leave until the afternoon, we had enough time in the morning to visit the Forbidden City.
» Read the full blog postGreat Wall of China – The Wall Section at Huanghuacheng (China)
After visiting the Chinese Wall near Mutianyu this morning, we had to visit another part of the wall in Huanghuacheng.
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A visit to the Great Wall of China must not be missed, of course, if you are in China or Beijing. And that is exactly what we should be doing today.
» Read the full blog postBeijing – Local Street Food at Wangfujing Snack Street (China)
If you have always wanted to eat scorpions, seahorses, snails, sea urchins, frogs, snakes, centipedes or locusts, you will definitely find it in Perking. In the Wangfujing Snack Street in the middle of the city center you can discover all kinds of culinary delights.
» Read the full blog postBeijing – A daytrip to the New Summer Palace (China)
After our visit to Tian’anmen Square and the Temple of Heaven this morning, we went as the next stop to the Summer Palace in Beijing.
» Read the full blog postBeijing – Tian’anmen Square & The Temple of Heaven (China)
Since we only had 72 hours to visit Beijing because of our transit visa, we have put together a very tight program for the most important sights in Beijing and an all-day trip to the Great Wall of China. But that’s what we’re used to 🙂
» Read the full blog postBeijing – Our problem with the 72-hour transit visa (China)
Now we have been on a world tour for over 150 days and everything worked exactly as we had planned in advance 🙂 That something had to go wrong at some point was almost clear – and today was unfortunately that day. We had problems getting in from Japan to China with our booked flight ticket…
» Read the full blog postTokyo – Shinjuku District & Hibiya Oktoberfest (Japan)
After we got up early yesterday and had a long day, we just slept today and only left around noon. On our last day we wanted to go to Hibiya Oktoberfest and the Shinjuku district with the kabukicho entertainment district.
» Read the full blog postShibazakura Festival – Beautiful flower carpet at Mount Fuji (Japan)
After our photo stop this morning in Arakurayama Sengen Park, we boarded the next Fujikyuko Line train at shimoyoshida stop at around 12pm, which arrived in Kawaguchiko a short time later. From here it was not far to the Shibazakura Festival.
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