Ketambe travel guide. Ketambe is a village in Aceh.
Understand[edit] Ketambe is a small, quiet and remote city in the most south of Aceh. In the 1970's the indonesian tried to increase its influence in the region by building a hotel facility and making an official enter to the Gunung Leuser National Park. Ketambe is besides this a small but charming village, worth a visit to both go trekking and to just relax for a day or two. Notice that Ketambe is located in Aceh which is partly governed by muslim sharia laws.
Get in[edit] By bus: To/from the north: Take a small minivan taxi from Blankenjeren direction Kutancane, tell it to stop in Ketambe. By foot: There is a possibility to make a trek from Bukit Lawang to Ketambe by crossing the national park. Get around[edit] Due the size of the village there is no reason to use any vehicle, you can reach every corner of the village by walking.
See[edit][add listing] Do[edit][add listing] Trekking: do a trek in the national park (see above). Buy[edit][add listing] Contact[edit] Ko Chang Noi: Thailand's most laid back island? As far as countries go, Thailand is known to be an especially laidback one, and some of the Thai language’s most frequently used phrases express this.
There’s sabai sabai, which most phrasebooks translate simply as “relax”, but to me it’s more like “chill chill” or better yet, “just kick back and relax because everything is well and good”. "Sabai sabai" personified. There’s jai yen, literally translated as “cool heart”, and used either to suggest that someone “chill out”, or to describe one who possesses a particularly cool and composed disposition, which is highly commendable in Thai society. And of course, there’s mai pen rai, the phrase with a thousand meanings, all of which correlate to relaxing, stepping aside and just letting things be. Sometimes, this mai pen rai attitude can be annoying, like when dozens of Thais are doing that ever so slow sabai style of walking and thereby blocking one of Bangkok’s notoriously narrow sidewalks when you’re late for the bus. Who needs TV?
Karakol travel guide. Karakol (Каракол) is a city in Kyrgyzstan to the east of Lake Issyk Kul.
Karakol is a true gem in the rough, just awaiting a master jeweler to polish it up. It holds great potential as a future tourism destination, offering year-round trekking, mountaineering, skiing, and spaaing opportunities, set in a picture-perfect setting of traditional Russian homes. This town was formerly called Przhevalsk (Пржевалск) during the Tsarist and Soviet era. It is located at the far end of the Issyk Kul, nestled in the Tian Shan mountains, and is the capital of the Issyk Kul Oblast (province). Mountain view near Karakol The city was originally founded by Russian Tsarist troops as a military outpost, and it is the resting place of Nikolai Przewalski (Przhevalskiy), the famed Polish-Russian explorer and naturalist.
Karakol was originally a Russian settlement, and it's still one of the few remaining large Slavic communities in Central Asia. Get in[edit] Get around[edit] See[edit][add listing] Get out[edit]