First of all, I need you to click on the link below! Thanks to Lena, I have the perfect soundtrack for this Blog entry: http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=MY#/watch?v=a22oCGwZULo I can't believe that the moment has come: I am sitting at the airport of Kuala Lumpur about to board the plane that takes me back to Germany. After 8 months, 2 weeks and 4 days of traveling, it is time to go home. Time for a resume: I set my feet into 21 countries, sle...

Was my first sentence of the day for the last two weeks. And if not the first sentence, at least the first thought. Thanks to Beat, my Swiss travel buddy, who teached himself to speak a bit Lao, we could order the early morning banana/pineapple fruitshake in the Local language. Somehow the laotians always laughed at us when we said it. Our guess is that we probably pronounced it wrong and accidentily said something like: 'a thousand horses to go please'. Lao is ...

We are cruising down the Mekong river in a slow longtail boat for two days, so I have a lot of time to tell you about my last weeks. We are passing breathtaking landcapes and watch the busy fisherboats doing their daily business, women washing clothes and children playing in the water. It feels unreal beeing in Laos now. The Mekong has always been such an exotic name for me and now I am experiencing it live and in coulour! Feels weird but really good! But back to...

I am back in the real world. After 10 days of Meditation, no Dinner, no real bed, no coffee, no music, no speaking, no reading, no chocolate, no shower, no Internet. Just me and my thoughts and 100 of other people crazy enough to do a 10 day meditation retreat in the middle of nature somewhere in southern Thailand. It all started with a serious interview with a buddhist nun, who had to make sure that I knew what I was getting myself into and who had to judge whet...