Gay Travel Asia

VIETNAM: Our highlights and best photos of our gay couple travel to Vietnam – a journal of our first trip together outside Europe to Asia.

INDIA: You have to come prepared to India, a country full of contrasts and constant surprises, a melting pot of cultural heritage and religious influences in a developing modern society of over 1.2 billion people.

NEPAL: The fascinating country in the Himalayas left a deep mark in my memories being so different, lovely and disturbing at the same time. When I was packing my backpack for my trip to India for a month, I was always having one eye on the mystically country in the highest mountain range in the world.

CAMBODIA: Additionally to the two genders, male and female, Cambodia’s national language Khmer also knows the third gender kteuy, describing a person who has the physical characteristics of one gender but the behavior of the other.

KAMBODSCHA: Kambodschas Nationalsprache Khmer kennt neben den beiden Geschlechtern männlich und weiblich auch noch das dritte Geschlecht kteuy, das eine Person beschreibt, die die körperlichen Merkmale des einen Geschlechts, aber das Verhalten des anderen aufweist.

JAPAN: One of our highlights and on top of our bucket list for our Japan Travels was without any doubt our two-nights stay at a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Mount Koya in the South of Osaka.

VIETNAM: Homosexuality was still described as a social evil by a national television broadcaster in 2002, comparable to prostitution and illegal gambling. Over the past years, the situation for the LGBT community in Vietnam has improved.

VIETNAM: Um zu verstehen, wie sich die Situation für die LGBT-Gemeinschaft in Vietnam verbessert hat, genügt ein Blick in die Nachbarländer.

MYANMAR: …or Burma, still one of the most conservative countries in Southeast Asia, is also the country where life is anything but easy for LGBTQ+ people

MYANMAR: Sarah war als allein reisende Frau in dem asiatischen Land unterwegs und hat sich ein Bild über die Lage der LGBTQ+ Community in Myanmar, bzw. Birma machen können.