- Live changing was our first stay at Begawan Giri (now Como Shambala Estate) at Bali, as well as our first stay at Amanjiwo. They both changed our perspectives on life, on speed, on traveling, on culture.

- Mildly live changing were our trips to Laos in and around Amantaka, to Bhutan in and around Amankora - they were totally impressing indeed, and only less live changing then Begawan Giri and Amanjiwo since they happened chronologically later...

- Also live changing was our China-trip from great Park Hyatt Shanghai to unrivalled Amanfayun and to majestic Aman at Summer Palace, because it changed our perspective on China in many aspects: the impressive view on economic power, the much-better-than-expected tastes of food, the impressing historic insights by our guides, the culture, the mentality and the state of civilization in China - which was sadly in parts changed to the worse later by the events around the barbaric and totally unnecessary imprisonments of artists and intellectuals like Ai Wei Wei, Liu Xiabao, Liu Xianbin and Qin Yongmin.