Favorite Places in Macau: The Shows at the Wynn

here’s heavy competition among the Macau hotels and casinos. So most of them try to be unique in some way – either through a special decoration theme, through opulence, technical gizmos or sheer size.
The Wynn in Macau tries to beat the competition through style and some automated shows.
Every fifteen minutes, there’s a show at the [...]

Favorite places in Macau: 38 Lounge

One of my favourite places in Macau is ‘38 Lounge’.
It’s a rooftop bar that feels like it’s straight out of a James Bond movie.
‘38 Lounge’ is situated on the top floor of the Altira Hotel on Taipa Island, which is the island right next to Macau Island.
The islands are connected by a number of bridges [...]

Welcome to paradise

Serendipity Beach in the southern Cambodian city of Sihanoukville is a backpackers’ paradise.
Dive shops, a tattoo artist and a couple of massage places line the unpaved road from the town down to the beach.
They get you in the mood for the beach life.
Down by the waterline, dozens of bars and restaurants have put out rattan [...]

Breakfast in the hall of mirrors

Two walls in the breakfast room in our hotel in Ulan Bator are completely covered with mirrors.
The effect is that these walls of mirrors multiply the meagre offerings on the breakfast buffet to something that actually looks pretty impressive.
In addition, the mirrors also reflect your sleepy and crumpled early morning face back at you [...]

Boozing in the broom closet

On the way out of our hotel room, we spied into the open door of the broom closet.
The cleaning lady was out cleaning the guests’ hotel rooms and had left the door to the broom closet open.
What did we see but this bottle of booze and two glasses.
There it was, right between the rolls of [...]