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We began our cruise along the great Nile River in the city of Aswan. That’s a name familiar to anyone who grew up in the USSR in the seventies/eighties – and, I’m told, in the UK, where, apparently, its main feature (see below) was studied in middle-school geography classes (yet – no mention of Soviet

When I first visited stunning Luxor back in 2022 (on my first trip to Egypt), I heard that tourist boats ply the great Nile River on the Luxor–Aswan route, and that it comes highly recommended for exploring firsthand. Just four (far from boring) years later, and business has brought me back to the land of

Before our very eyes, technological progress has once again bolted ahead at full gallop. It’s all we can do to keep shutting them (or opening them wide) in astonishment! In literally just a few years, countless AI this-that-and-the-others have gone from being things like dim-witted but tireless talking parrots, to intelligent tools able to solve

On the main street of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, stands this rather confident-looking structure. What’s more… it’s of a somewhat unusual design for Southeast Asia: It’s called Patuxai, and it turns out it’s an “Arc de Triomphe”. But that figures, since Laos is a former French colony (and you still quite often see and

ສະບາຍດີທຸກຄົນ! Let me continue my tourism tales in and around Vientiane – the capital of Laos. Located 25km from the city center by road (15km as the crow flies) is a rather curious little place that goes by the name of Buddha Park. Here, on a relatively small patch of land (180x100m), stand around two

Ooh – déjà vu! These scenes out the window sure looked familiar – but of course they did: I was only here last month!… And here are some of our guests flying in!… We step out onto the beach – and it’s déjà vu all over again… Everything’s just the same, except that in September

With our tourist weekend in Luang Prabang over, it was time to get down to business. The next couple of days in Vientiane were pretty much all work, work, work (meetings, introductions, handshakes, negotiations, and so on – business as usual), but we still had some time left over for sightseeing: perfect! And the highlight,

Now that we’ve covered the campsites, it’s onward and downstream on the Sayan Oka River!… In places, the beauty all around us was simply off the charts: Come evening, we looked for a campsite again, found one, and parked up: The campsite was a goodie – as per: Next morning, all aboard the rafts and

ສະບາຍດີ folks! Back to Laos – for a continuation of my tales (and pics) from the Luang Prabang side… Curiously, the city is the country’s alternative capital (the government hopped back and forth between Vientiane and Luang Prabang several times), which is why traces of investment in urban infrastructure from days of yore remain here.

Today’s post is all about the campsites we stayed at on our summer rafting trip down the Sayan Oka River, of which there are many and in different flavors, but which all turned out to be decent. Even though there was a pretty heavy stream of rafting tourists (every day we crossed paths with one,