The well-travelled among us would probably recognise that Borobudur, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is the world’s biggest Buddhist temple complex. They may not realise that the second-largest one, Candi Sewu, is also within spitting distance of the city’s airport. Best of all, it’s a mere 15-minute stroll from Prambanan; you can visit both on the same admission ticket. […]
I’ve never been a big fan of jostling with crowds on my travels. When I learnt that I could avoid the worst of them by visiting Borobudur at sunrise, there wasn’t going to be any other way I was going to do it. The early entry price was worth every extra Rupiah (400,000 Rp vs the […]
A trip to Biskupin rarely features on most visits to Poland, but it wasn’t far from the Poznań-Gniezno-Toruń route that I was taking through the country. An Iron Age settlement that was discovered in 1933, reconstructed and turned into an open-air museum, its proximity to other sites related to the founding of the Polish nation was quite fitting (for more […]
Fresh from a visit to the temple ruins of Angkor with one more day on my pass, I scanned the other trips that were listed on the Siem Reap Hostel whiteboard. In addition to the places that I’d already been to, there were trips to Banteay Srei, Tonle Sap lake and the waterfall at Kbal Spean (I saved […]
What? Cycling Angkor in this heat? Haven’t you seen them all already? I may have seen Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Ta Prohm and a few others on my first full day in Siem Reap, but that’s not all there is to see. There are more ruins on the grand circuit and they most definitely do not look […]
It pays to do some research before jetting off, especially if it involves a culture one is not immediately familiar with. I did mine five years before setting foot in Angkor, the temple-dotted capital of the ancient Khmer Empire, and it saved me a tidy sum when I finally made the trip. I have the Asian […]