Read our travel stories, tips and impressions, to live our stops a little more closely.
In front of us, the traffic in Hué looks like a steady stream of scooters. An hour earlier, we were leisurely sipping coffee at a huge intersection, fascinated by the way the motorcycles pass each other and weave in and out without ever really stopping. Now that we’re on our own scooter in the middle of the flow, the experience is different. Here, the horn…
“Ah, there, he’s putting on his pants.” We watch the man calmly cross the small restaurant. He gets back to his scooter, picks up a pair of pants from a chair and puts them on by the side of the road. A few minutes earlier, he was still in his boxers. “I think he’s definitely going to go buy the eggs.”...
“Nếu bạn đã dịch câu này, bạn biết nhiều hơn chúng tôi lúc đó.” The man continues speaking in Vietnamese while pointing to the bike. Sébastien looks at him. Then look at Matthew. Still no idea what he's trying to tell us. He starts again, this time with his hands...
“It was completely fake." The receptionist at our very pretty hotel looks up at Matthieu, visibly surprised. She had just asked us what we had done the day before. “Cat Cat Village" Matthieu replies. Before adding, with the most absolute naturalness: “It was completely fake."...
“It’s me, Lisa!” Big smile, very high voice. Matthieu looks at her without understanding. “But it’s me, Lisa!” We talked together!”...
The roar gets closer. In a few seconds, the waiters fold the tables against the walls, the tourists press against the facades and the train crosses the alley a few tens of centimeters from us. Welcome to Train Street. It is here that we discover Hanoi for the first time, among the cafes set up along the rails and the cameras already ready to immortalize the…
The bus driver turns off the engine, turns around and shows us the pontoon where we should stop. How does he know it's the right one? We never told him anything except our names. The journey from Hanoi was booked with a company; the cruise, in another, without ever connecting the two or giving the name of any ship. Perfectly established network or cruise…
After several weeks traveling around Indonesia, we returned to Bali one last time. Five days between Uluwatu and Seminyak, without trying to fill our days, just to enjoy the island a little longer before turning the page. Uluwatu is known for its immense cliffs, its wild beaches and its very surfing atmosphere. We took our scooter and spent several days…
It was in Labuan Bajo, a small port town on the island of Flores and gateway to the Komodo National Park, that our adventure continued. We started with a three-day liveaboard to explore the park along the water. From the first evening, the spectacle was already incredible: at sunset, thousands of bats left the mangroves to take flight. Seeing all these…
Head to Kuta Lombok, a surfer’s paradise. Ever since we started traveling to Indonesia, we kept hearing his name come up. It's impossible not to want to go and see for ourselves if the reputation was deserved. During our stay, we had the opportunity to do two surf sessions, both accompanied by local surf instructors. And here, there is no question of…
Certain stages of a trip are carefully prepared. Others arise from a simple misunderstanding. It all started during a karaoke evening in Bali. Between two songs and a few drinks, an Englishwoman enthusiastically tells us that she has just spent several days in Gili Meno... and that she has even extended her stay three times. For her, there is no doubt: if…
We spent three days on Nusa Penida with a fairly clear program from the start: go meet manta rays and discover two of the most iconic beaches in Bali. From the first half-day, we went out to sea for an outing dedicated to diving with mantas at Manta Point. And there, a truly incredible experience: several enormous manta rays glided around us with almost…
