Martinique, France

My last trip was in Martinique, a french island near the North of South America. I spent a week there with my boyfriend. We didn't do much except snorkelling, a 3 hours long walk, and spending time enjoying our last bit of sun before going back to study...

Denmark, Copenhagen

After a break of three months from travelling, it was time to go again !

I worked to get some money and to be able to pay for another trip. as it was my gap year I tried to travel as much as I could since I was going back to university in September. It was in July, I went with one of my oldest friend (19 years of friendship yay !) to see our danish childhood friend. Her parents are Danish and they used to live in our city but they moved back in Denmark ten years ago. We already went to see her a couple years ago so I have already done the main activities (Tivoli which is one of the oldest attrition park in Europe, Rundetaarn Tower, the Little Mermaid statue, Christiania which is a small self-proclamed city within Copenhagen). 

I can easily say that Copenhagen is my favourite city: the weather as been amazingly great the both time we went, inhabitants are nice, you can do everything by bike (and I loooove to go around by bike, Copenhagen roads are very safe for bikes), buildings are pretty and there are a lot of things to do !

The first day we didn't do much as we woke up at 3:00 am to catch our flight and were pretty exhausted, we just bought food and went to a park to nap, sunbathe and catch up. 

The second day we went for a brunch at Mad & Kaffe (really good) and after to the botanical garden where you can see tropical plants in the greenhouse and walk in the gardens around a pound. We then we got back on our bikes and headed to the port to see Nyhavn, full of coloured houses (and tourists).

The next day, we went out of Copenhagen with my friend and her mum to the Louisiana Museum (modern art museum with temporary exhibitions also) and spent the day there. 

Our fourth day, we visited one of the coolest campuses I've seen and headed back to the center of Copenhagen and got to the Church of Our Saviour where you can go up and have a view of the whole city. We then ate at the port on Papirøen (street food market where you can find food from all around the world : paradise).

The last day consisted on a boat tour in the morning to see the city from a different angle, then a little bit of shopping and we went out in Tivoli to see Patrick Dorgan and Scarlet (you should check them out on youtube) !

The prices are a bit high but the city is so nice, so if you are planning to go, GO !

View from our apartment 

Street art

Mad & Kaffe

Mad & Kaffe choices

Brunchhh

Buildings again and again

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden 

Nyhavn

Louisiana Museum

Louisiana Museum

Church of Our Saviour view

Church of Our Saviour

Papiroen

Street food

Tivoli with Patrick Dorgan and Scarlet

FYI: We took Vuiling and SAS to go there.  We ate in Mad & Kaffe, the Blue Dog restaurant, and Papiroen street food market. We went to Louisiana Museum, the Botanical Garden, the Church of Our Saviour, Tivoli, Nyhavn,... All the photos were taken with my iPhone.

United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi and Dubai

After almost three months Asia, it was time to head back home but it wasn't exactly the end of our trip... My cousin and his wife live in Abu Dhabi so we stopped by for a couple of days.

We didn't do a lot as we were kind of broke (not really but we did want to have some money left once home) and life here is expensive. 

It was quite a big change compared to Asia, the last time we saw buildings as big as here was in Bangkok almost three months ago and the heat, no forest, trees just malls, buildings and the desert.

We saw a bit of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, we walked around in the ginormous malls and hide from the heat (37°C with no wind and a blinding sun, even in cars with sun proof windows you HAVE to wear sunglasses). My cousin nicely invited us to restaurants and Yas Waterworld (which was fun). But as we were here from Friday to Monday and as he worked on Sunday (it is not a catholic country Sundays are like a normal day of the week) we couldn't do much. The only big thing we did as the Grand Mosque which was breathtaking: so white, clean, big, calm,... Otherwise we spent the time catching up and doing nothing but eating and talking (one of the best things in life am I right ?!)

Dubai

Burj Khalifa

Dubai...

This restaurant was sooo good: Dubai Souk Al Bahar

Yas Waterworld

Restaurant Rogo's in Abu Dhabi 

Contrats

This water..

So blue..

Buildings by the sea

Mosque Cheikh Zayed

Hello it's me

It's too big I couldn't make it fit 

Time to get home..

Indonesia, Bali Week 2

For our second week in Bali as I said we did the same cities but not the same areas and places to stay, as a group of three it was easier, cheaper and nicer to sleep in hotels. We slept one night in Depensar to get our friend who was arriving late at night from the airport and left the next day to Ubud. We went in another area of Ubud, in the main street this time but our hotel was away form the road so really quiet. 

The first day was just us getting lost a the new area we just discovered, looking at new restaurants (food is very important okay !), new places to visit,... We walked and discovered rice-fields in the north of Ubud and we went in a tiny restaurant were we enjoyed a fresh coconut, we came back and enjoyed the sun by the pool.

The second day we planned to go to the Mount Batur during the following night (you have to leave at 2:00 in the morning and you go up the mountain during the night so you can see the sunrise on the mountain which is just beautiful) so we didn't do much and went to bed early. When we got back at 11:00 am we were pretty tired so we chilled by the pool and took a nap.

The next day we went to Tegalalang rice fields and to Ubud Palace, the Puta Taman Saraswati and the Taman Ayun Temple where the gardens were beautiful and peaceful. 

During our third day in Ubud we went to the Monkey Forest (very touristic place but the gardens and the art gallery were quite nice) and spent the afternoon by the pool. The next day we were on a mission to find souvenirs for friends and family so we did a lot of different shops and luckily found what we were looking for !

For our last day we took a cooking class (we saw earlier on the week that a restaurant near us offered cooking class). We went to the market in the morning and picked our ingredients, the lady teaching us also explained a lot of thing about the fruits, vegetables and what they use the most. We learned a lot of things and after the market we cooked our meals and ate them afterwards (the best part not gonna lie !). 

Then it was time to leave... We went to Amed again but in another area near a boat wreck where we spent days to explore and swim around, we mainly did snorkelling and enjoyed our last days in Bali. Sadly it was time to go home and really leave Indonesia. We just had a day to squeeze a quick visit to Tanah Lot Temple, the weather was bad but oh well one bad day is not the end of the world ! Our time here in Bali was awesome and marked the end of our big Asian trip that I will always remember.

Rice fields in the North of Ubud

Jati 3 Bungalows view

Balenese dance

Puta Taman Saraswati

Tegalalang rice fields

Tegalalang rice fields

Mont Batur

Mont Batur

Taman Ayun temple

Taman Ayun gardens

Taman Ayun gardens

Taman Ayun temple

Monkey Forest

Monkey Forest

Monkey Forest

Jati 3 bungalows pool

Our view in Amed 

Sunset in Amed

Waves near Tanah Lot

Tanah Lot 

Sunset at Tanah Lot temple 

Last picture from Bali...

FYI: We mainly stayed in Jati 3 bungalows in Ubud. After in Amed we slept at Eka Purnama cottages. We ate in Buddha Bowl, Nomad (really really nice), Watercress (açaï bowls), Warung Garasi and other small restaurants. We made our reservations via Booking.com.  All the photos were taken with my iPhone.