The blog of everything by Anneli & Markus

We’re finally breaking the silence! Our blog is on again (with a new dress) and our new home has officialy been opened for the “public” by a visit of our friends and owners of the flat, Sandra, Mel, Mattias and Hendrik. After a year of the most magnificent sensory overload it seems we needed some …

This entry is our Christmas present for you! We haven’t posted anything for a loooong time. That’s not because we had a boring two months, more like the opposite, we’ll catch up and write about our great adventures in China, Tibet, Nepal and Laos, promise! Right now we’re in Burma (Myanmar). We call the country …

Visited: July 2010 Tana Toraja or the Land of Toraja is a peculiar place in the middle of Sulawesi. Obsessed with death, funerals, coffins, bones, and sometimes eerily lifelike figures of dead relatives, the Torajans spend seemingly half of their lives sending their dear ones to the otherworld. And there are strict rules at the …

Let’s look for stupid pictures, we said today, you know, the funny stuff. We looked and found. Hidden gems, previously unreleased material. How we really look like. (It’s all in Asia!)

This is the second entry in our mega city series, the previous articles are… Intro – The Asian mega city craze #1 – A muddy river in Malaysia The most important part of our stay in Singapore is described in the article about Zivilstand, which is considered a bit hard to understand by some. Maybe …

Visited: Early June 2010 This is the first entry in our mega city series, here is the intro article “The Asian mega city craze“. Kuala means river, Lumpur means muddy. Many place names in Malaysia and Indonesia start with Kuala. That’s because the river used to be the only good road in this corner of …

This is an intro article to a series of articles about the crazy Asian mega cities we’ve visited. In many ways they are all similar to each other, on the other hand each one has its very own interesting personality. Before we went to Asia we had both never been in a really big city …

The Togeans Visited: Early July 2010 The island of Melenge in the Togean archipelago (Central Sulawesi) combines everything you expect from a real tropical island paradise – rainforests, magroves, coral reefs, romantic coves with white pure sand and turquoise water, coconuts, sandstone cliffs, colourful fish, you name it. Add some funky people, who like to …

3 times space plus one time. That’s the four dimensions we understand (to some degree, some of us) and we two travellers use them a lot these days… recently by flying Singapore-Zürich, Zürich-Hong Kong including jet lags and various degrees of in-flight entertainment (we love it, Emirates wins). I would like to propose (again ) …

… or Venice of Asia (yes, another one) is how Banjarmasin, the capital of Southern Borneo likes to be addressed! We got there after a 17-hour super-tight ride from Pankalan Bun. The local buses are made for Indonesians not Westerners with long limbs, so we swore that we will never again take such a long …