We arrived in Munnar and spent 3 hours looking for a cheap place to stay and for two motorbikes to explore the area. We were carrying our full package, which means around 20kg each. We finally found an honest deal, so we finally dropped our stuff and went around the hilly city of Munnar to recover from backache. The city itself is nothing particular beside a nice bazaar and a mosque, an Hindu temple and a church facing each other. We estimat...

Right after reaching Colombo, I dropped my passport at the Indian embassy where I was told I had to wait 7 days for a new visa... Colombo being a pretty boring city, at least for me, I decided to move on the south coast of Sri Lanka again, and try to meet my fisherman friends in Tangalle. Unfortunately, and as I suspected, they were out fishing, so I just stayed 4 days in Tangalle, chilling on the beach and walking around city markets. I finally got my India...

Long time since my last Indian news. No excuses: only laziness. I moved to another small Asian country: China, for a three parts journey: Chongqing, Beijing and Lijiang. I first stopped in Chongqing for 10 days, to meet my Chinese friend who joined me in Thailand at the beginning of my travel. I have been to Chongqing a few times before, for my work, but was always in the summer months, and I remembered an extremely crowded and hot city. Chongqing...

India, India.... I flew from Colombo to Thiruvananthapuram (what a lovely name) for a few days in the southernmost province of India. Main reason of this short trip was actually work: I had to visit a customer there. I managed to have one day off to go around and get my first impressions about this country: Although Thiruvananthapuram is considered a small town, compared to India of course, I was shocked by the density of people, cars, two and three wheelers, b...

Another 5 hours train through the mountains brought me to famous Kandy. This time it was way harder than the previous time: I was still standing in the coach, it was raining hard, as usual doors were kept open, and I had to share the ride with another group of young men singing loud and dancing hard. First hour was actually good, I enjoyed their songs, but it turned into nightmare because they never stopped over the 5 hours ride. I was standing, with no way...