Tag Archives: rural villages

This post will show you the tropical island Ko Samet in the Gulf of Thailand. Once on the island, we explored to all parts of it so here they are, the best Ko Samet beaches. Ko Samet is not far away from Bangkok, you only need to travel three hours south. This makes its beaches easy to reach from the ...

Thailand is dotted with tiny fishing villages built straight on the water. They just add poles and then their houses. Ban Phe south of Bangkok shows you what a Thai fishing village built on poles is like. We wanted to see what Thai village life on poles is like and spent an afternoon in Ban Phe wandering through its streets. ...

Want to combine Bangkok with a beach holiday? In that case think about the Gulf of Thailand islands and try Ko Samet. The drive from Bangkok to Ko Samet only takes three hours, in which time you will enter a different world.  We spent lazy days on Ko Samet’s white powder beaches, and active days on the island’s jungle paths. ...

We rented a car and drove to inland of the Gran Canaria east coast to check out what the region offers for tourists. On our drive from Las Palmas to Aguimes we saw historic Guanche caves, a volcano crater with a farmhouse and an finally a striped terracotta canyon. On the way down we also found a botanical garden – ...

This post will take you on a Las Palmas mountain trip through the scenic north of Gran Canaria. We will cross the lush, green northern mountains, a fertile region with pretty villages and gingerbread houses. The highest point on the road is Vega de San Mateo at 1 100 m, after which it’s all the way down to the island’s ...

In this post we will show you the Gran Canaria mountains south of the highest peaks. We will invite you to join our scenic mountain drive starting from the south coast, for which purpose we rented a car. What are the southern mountains like? Stunning scenery, lakes and ravines, palms and pine forests. And a lot of Canarian history: archaeological ...