If you have problem with noisy neighbors, this might be the place where to live. Closest people are 10 minutes by speed boat. I cannot imagine being there during storm. Out of 7 sea turtle species which live in the world (all endangered species), you can see 6 of them in Indonesia and 2 nests…
Singapore day 3
For today we agreed to meet with Allan and Donovan at east coast, have a lunch together and then hang out on the beach or rent bicycles and ride to the city. Bikes were supposed to be 10 SGD per 3 hours, but when we came there, we discovered this was price for week day,…
Singapore day 2
After Indian lunch prepared by Ritika I was going to meet Allan – my Burmese friend from Halong Bay 🙂 He proposed to go hiking in southern ridges. I was really interrested what does it mean hiking in terms of Singapore – I could not imagine where to do this in the middle of skyscrapers….
Taiwan day 20: Taipei
Today morning it was pretty difficult for David to wake up and go to work at 7am, as our „let’s have one beer together“ lasted yesterday little longer than expected (until 3:30am!) After packing, I finally could go to Taipei 101 – from 2004 to 2010 highest building in the world (508 meters)! I got…
Taiwan day 19: cycling challenge completed
As next week I am going to volunteer in turtle protection, seeing turtle shell in Chinese medicine show-case was not really pleasant. I liked the group of children going to theater in Hsinchu Just in the moment when I was thinking about my last defect, I felt something strange from rear wheel. All along the route…
Taiwan day 14: Mt. Jade (Yushan) climb
As yesterday I was unable to fall asleep before 10pm, it was very unpleasant when somebody woke me up at 1:30am by shaking my leg! As I didn’t want to hike alone (just in case), yesterday I tried to agree with one Taiwanese couple we would go together. But when I discovered they wanna leave…
Taiwan day 12: Chiayi
This morning was the most difficult for me, the day when I was really sorry my schedule is so tough and I cannot stay longer. I spent last night at CouchSurfing, my hosts were Ruby and her sister Nicki – and the chat with them was just amazing. But if I wanted to arrive to…
Taiwan day 10: Fo Guang Shan and Moon world
There is no way how I could describe the happiness – Daniela has a scooter, so no bike for entire day 🙂 First we went to Fo Guang Shan monastery. It is top most visited place in Taiwan. The monastery itself is really huge. And additionally to this, a mall was built just next to…
Taiwan day 8: Royal stage
Royal stage was waiting for me today. 70 kilometers with few 200 meters gain as a warm up in the morning (preferably early morning before it gets real hot) 10 kilometers with 500 meters high mountain as the main task of the day (crossing from east to south coast of Taiwan) 26 kilometers as a…
Taiwan day 7: friendly people
All the time I am writing about fear from snakes, but real danger here are dogs! There is a lot of them everywhere and when you pass by, they start following you, barking and you never know into which leg they will bite you. When I’m getting closer to my destination and I feel real…