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After almost a week hiking in the Jumolhari trek, I went to Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan for a few days of rest. It was good to take a nice break in a nice hotel, sleeping on a proper bed and soft pillows inside a warm room, treating myself with good hot shower and good food. I spent 5 days in Thimpu since I was extending my visa in Bhutan and it… Read More
The cold bites my skin at night despite the beginning of summer. When the sun is out, it slowly provides comfort here to the living things… like a sweet mother holding her crying baby on her arm tightly. The temperature was slowly rising and we continued our trek when the sun started shining. As we trekked further, the landscape slowly changed. The thick forest slowly disappeared… less trees the higher we walked… Read More
The sun rises as early as 6 here in the Bhutanese skyline, waking up all the sleeping beings here. Even at 4am, I could already see the first light hitting the darkness of the night sky. The summer season begins to show its characteristic here in the Himalayas. I left Paro after having breakfast in the hotel I stayed. I left my bicycle in some safe place in Paro, still untouched in… Read More
My life has been in contrast recently. Time changes everything including my physical body. I grew older everyday, the wrinkles on my face grew more noticeable, I started to feel the limitation on my movement very slowly. But my horses…. my horses and the Tien Shan mountains… they made my mind stronger. My experience travelling with the horses through the Tien Shan has really changed me. I now realized even more the… Read More
After a day driving around visiting nice places along the Una river with Redzo, we then drove back to Cazin village to take a rest. I plan not to drive anymore for a few days but to just stay in this beautiful countryside of Cazin. It feels a bit like a countryside in northern Scotland… reminding my old sweet memory when I was cycling around Scotland almost 3 years ago… when the raindrops… Read More
Diary Of A Traveller 