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Taiwan: Hot Springs And Night Market

Not far from Taipei is a hot spring area in the town of Beitou. It’s easy and fast reachable from Taipei by metro train. In a few steps, a green park invites for a stroll, or to play mahjong, or skating.

I found the public bathing places. There’s an open air one, but i decided to go to the more authentic bathing house. At entrance i got informed, that female and male visitors have separate zones and use to bath naked. I acknowledged and entered, after changing room, a room packed with men sitting in and around two pools. The temperature of the water was between 42-44°C, while the second pool had a thermometer showing constant 45.9°C. The hottest bath i ever had.

Back in Shilin, i went another time to the nearby night market, enjoying some food and the lively atmosphere.

März 6, 2024März 6, 2024 by Rene Bauer Categories: Asia, culture, gastronomy, history, portrait, reportage, tradition, travel, urbanlifeTags: Asia, beitou, city, food, hotspring, mahjong, nightlife, nightmarket, park, people, portrait, renebauerphotography, reportage, shilin, taipei, taiwan, temple, Travel, urbanlife, waterfall Hinterlasse einen Kommentar

Start Into New Asia Trip: Jomtien, Pattaya, Bangkok

Just before i checked in my flight to Bangkok i decided not to see the hustling city but go to the nearest beach from the airport first. Since there was a direct bus link from the airport to Jomtien Beach, just next to Pattaya, it was a good decicion.

A few days on relaxing beaches, nice walks trough forest hills nearby, visiting temples and lookouts, eating at local night markets and having a beer in the street of bustling nightlife.

Bangkok with its skyscrapers, the green lush parks, but busy, noisy traffic, is a whole different story. I ended up in the famous-infamous Khao San Road, a backpacker area even long since my first visit here 30 years ago. When i went for a stroll there among the nightly, crazy party folks i thought literally: ‚New generation, same shit!‘, but enjoyed it.

März 1, 2024März 1, 2024 by Rene Bauer Categories: Asia, culture, history, landscape, nature, portrait, reportage, tradition, travel, urbanlife, waterTags: Asia, bangkok, beach, beachlife, beer, bigbuddha, bkk, buddhism, cappuccino, city, citylife, coffee, landscape, nightlife, nightmarket, pattaya, people, renebauerphotography, skyscraper, southeastasia, temple, thailand, Travel, urbanlife, walkingstreet Hinterlasse einen Kommentar

Winter In Turkey: Gelibolu/Gallipoli

Winter in Turkey impressions #17: Gelibolu, also known as Gallipoli, gained sad notoriety after a disastrous battle on WWI with many thousands killed. In the history of the many New Zealander and Australian soldiers involved it bekam known as ANZAC day.

For me was it the end of an very interesting trip trough the history of times. But before i left Turkey, i met an very nice couple riding a Honda Africa Twin. A newly wed couple, it turned out, on their trip trough their own country. After a nice chat, i handed over a sticker, which i got from an other Turkish friend and motobiker.

Güle güle ve yakında görüşürüz. Teşekkür ederim Türkiyem!

Januar 20, 2024Januar 12, 2024 by Rene Bauer Categories: history, landscape, nature, portrait, reportage, roadtrip, tinatortuga, tradition, travel, turkeyTags: anzac, anzacday, battle, beach, gallipoli, gelibolu, Landrover, landroverdefender, landroverdefendertdi300, landscape, middleeast, nature, overland, people, portraits, renebauerphotography, reportage, ruins, sea, tinatortuga, Travel, turkey, war, wwi Hinterlasse einen Kommentar

Winter In Turkey: Tarsus

Winter In Turkey Impression #6: Tarsus offers not only historical places like the ‚Cleopatra’s Gate‘, but i was also lucky to meet a friend there, who explained me everything about the sweet „Künefe“.

Januar 9, 2024Januar 5, 2024 by Rene Bauer Categories: culture, history, landscape, portrait, reportage, roadtrip, tinatortuga, travel, turkey, urbanlifeTags: anatolia, church, citylife, cleopatra, cleopatrasgate, künefe, landscape, nature, overland, people, portraits, renebauerphotography, reportage, roadtrip, tarsus, tinatortuga, Travel, turkey, waterfall Hinterlasse einen Kommentar

Winter In Turkey: Kas and Demre

Winter in Turkey Impressions #5: A friend from Istanbul spent some times in Kas. I followed his invitation and he kindly showed me around in the area. One of the highlights was also the Church of Saint Nicholas from Demre, the real ‚Santa Claus‘, who was kind to children and gave them gifts.

Januar 8, 2024Januar 5, 2024 by Rene Bauer Categories: culture, humansofplanetearth, landscape, Middle East, nature, portrait, reportage, roadtrip, tinatortuga, tradition, travel, turkey, urbanlifeTags: beach, boats, cats, church, coast, demre, harbor, kas, kekova, landscape, nature, overland, people, port, portraits, renebauerphotography, reportage, roadtrip, saintnicholas, sea, simena, simenakalesi, tinatortuga, Travel, turkey Hinterlasse einen Kommentar

Winter In Turkey: Antalya

Turkey in winter impressions #4: I spent New Years Eve in Antalya and surroundings, where i found a super nice family renting me out a room in their airBnB. Beside that i met again a travel mate from an earlier trip in Africa and made more friends.

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Winter In Turkey: Pamukkale

Winter in Turkey Impressions #2: Pamukkale is famous for its sinter terraces

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Winter-Trip Turkey: Long Way To Istanbul

This trip was actually taken in winter 2022/23, but wasn’t able to post earlier. However, i decided to post some impressions in the next days from my journey trough winterly Turkey. Don’t expect much text or explanations. I just post mainly pictures. So, get ready for many of them 😉

On my way to Turkey i crossed Greece. Many kilometers and coffees on the road, but also some nice places to stop by, as the hot springs i found somewhere next to the highway.

ISTANBUL was the first goal. Not to see all the sightseeing, but as a start in Turkey and meet some old friends there. It’s happened to be Christmas 2022. Another reason not to hunt down all touristic spots, rather roaming around and enjoying myself too.