Category: Travels
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The Magic of Sapa
An original version of this story was posted for Tulisan. The following is a personal extended version. After a 10 hours ride on the sleeper bus – a signature travelling style of Vietnam – I was finally at Sa Pa. The town of Sa Pa is a district in the northwestern province of Lao Cai, Vietnam and was indeed the awaited part of my…
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Singkawang’s Minute of Rhapsody
We had been on the road for four hours now. After a while, things started to grasp in. This was Indonesia indeed, yet it always felt like this for me: familiar yet so different. Darwin, the driver, took no turn. It had been straight all along from Pontianak up to the north. The road was okay…
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Portraying Phnom Penh
We were no where walking through the city, yet I promptly thought it was one sad city. There was just too much unhealed pain that needed some serious treatment. A walk down Tonlé Sap River slightly revealed what actually happens. People here were trying so hard to find their self-defined happiness; through selling things…
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