It feels like stepping into two worlds at once, doesn’t it? Traveling through Southeast Asia during the monsoon season. It’s sunshine one minute, then sudden downpour the next. I didn’t understand how unpredictable the weather could be… until the clouds opened above me and completely soaked everything: clothes, passport, gadgets. That was the moment I […]
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