The Bordercrossing After our guided tour through Myanmar, we crossed the border to Thailand in Mae Sai. Bringing your own car to Thailand is a pain at the moment, as authorities installed a new law on the 1st of November. Foreign vehicles are only allowed to enter with a guide and a special permit. But …
After 4 really intense months in India, we crossed the border to Myanmar last week. The Asian highway No.1, which is the only connection between India and Southeast Asia is maybe the worst road on the way on my trip. Full of dust, potholes, and construction in the middle of the jungle.The border-crossing to Myanmar …
From Meghalaya to the border to Myanmar it’s about 600km, but google maps showed me a 24 hours ride, and we also heard that the roads should be in very poor conditions. So we decided to take the northern route through Guwahati, where I met Zofia.After her unplanned stay in Warsaw she drove from Delhi …
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After I went to Agra to meet Zofia and pick up the spare parts I flew back to Guwahati. The van could be fixed immediately and I drove directly to my friends, who were staying in Meghalaya, a few kilometers from the border to Bangladesh. There is no doubt that Meghalaya is one of my …
The guys at Mercedes in Guwahati tried to fix my A/C compressor but fucked it up completely. When I started the engine a bad smell appeared and the belt was making a strange noise. On the same day, Zofia flew from Warsaw to Delhi and had a stopover in Vienna. But the flight from Vienna …
Deutsch am Ende des Textes! While I was traveling with Tom and Dan in Nepal, I got bad news from home: Zofia was diagnosed with a tumor on the thyroid. At that time, it was not clear if it was a good or bad tumor. When the suspicion of cancer hardened, it was clear to …
On the weekend Zofia flew back to Europe to work at a conference and two friends from my hometown in Austria came to visit me. They will travel with me for a bit through India and Nepal. I picked them up at Delhi Airport and we drove directly to Hardiwar, where Marco and Anja (rockinrosie.com) …