Yeowza It's been awhile since I've updated the blog Let me bring you back about 2 weeks... Back in Cartagena....So we arrived in Cartagena late at night after having hiked out of Tayrona National Park back through the hot yoga jungle and after a 7 hour bus ride. We were both really dirty and tired and had decided to get a nice hotel for the night. However by the time we took the very slo

Friday 28 May 2010Thwarted again Here we are back in Kuala Lumpur having got back on Tuesday night from Kho Phi Phi near Phuket to travel to the port of Klang on Wednesday to see our shipping agents this side of the Indian Ocean with the expectation of being able to get our car out of customs to begin our short trip down to the south of the country. On arrival we were greeted by a very efficie

So weiter geht's wir haben einen straffen Zeitplan hier in den 3 Wochen Indien Nach 36 scharfen Gebirgskurven und 3 mal Bus umsteigen sind wir nun endlich am spaeten Abend in Ooty angekommen und es ist ohne Witz echt kalt im Vergleich zu den 45 Grad vorher. Uns wurde schon vorher angekuendigt dass Ooty wahrscheinlich total ueberfuellt sein wird und wir nie im Leben ein Zimmer bekommen wer

Queenstown cabin fever truly has set in. Earning no money... No proper snow yet.... not started new job yet.. so whats the answer Road trippinThis exciting instalment from my German housemate and I brings you actual real life snow deers lakes lakes and mountains some sheep more lakes and then a Film set in little Arrowtown with Fake snow and Christmas lights All topped off a good days

Day9 the blasting music is still very well heard from a couple blocks away some of it is great but when it is so loud and bad it is sometimes irritating guess thatrsquos ying yang huh Another hot day but at least it rained for a short time and cooled faster than normal. Irsquom trying to be brave and try new things each day. At home there is only one thing I donrsquot like to eathelli

Tibet is an amazing country with some of the most beautiful kind people I have ever encountered as well as some of the most enterprising people trying to turn the quickest profit they can off the place. It tops many travelers lists as a must visit place and it's on my Must revisit list as well.Here are my pointers and suggestions for anyone planning to goWhat to bring physicallysunscree

On our Tuesday off from work me and Tina visited a Dinosaur park in a nearby city called Changzhou.The park was quite big with some model dinosaurs as well as a museum with some dinosaur bones there were some rides like small rollercoasters and some shows 4D movie and Bird Elephant and other shows.The weather was very good warm and sunny....Price of the park was 160rmb per person

I didn't do anything yesterday by wait in airports and play online. After leaving my hotel in Lhasa at 740am I didn't get in to Hanoi until late evening after a 4 plus hour layover in Kunming China. We got in a bit early and I was able to clear customs quickly after I got my visa on arrival. The process was very simple and I had no wait as I guess I was the only one on my flight who used th

Wow things could not be more different than the last time I wrote.Even though I have been to Asia before South China not a million miles from Laos it was still a shock getting into Vientienne and feeling firstly the unbelievable heat and humidity of the tropics but also the full weight of the strangeness that comes with not speaking the language not understanding a single sign or direction

Hey guys...we are alive and well...well very well actually...we are in McLeod Ganj in India waiting for our window to get into the heart of Himalayas ...there was a huge storm here yesterday and the el. cuts quite often here....so i will have to leave the writing for some other day...but hopefully it will be enough to upload some pics....so check the out and look out for some more updates I hope t

All of my various hosts have been most generous in letting me use their home computers. I have no problem with going to a net cafe and paying to use on but since wifi is so widespread there is virtually no need for them because people have highspeed net at home and tey just bring their laptops when they go out.My first full day in Focsani a drive to a village to drop off Dan's old beatup Dac

On ldquoThe Last Frontierrdquo Part IFlorida markets itself as ldquoThe Sunshine Staterdquo but this is all hype. I donrsquot think that Florida is particularly more sunny than most other places but the nickname helps bring in the tourists I suppose. Alaska however which has dubbed itself ldquoThe Last Frontierrdquo is actually justified in its nickname. One doesnrsquot have t

Back in Efate again at least this time it is not raining WOW it looks so much nicer.As usual we had nothing booked on arriving at airport after trying one place too expensive we ened up at the Nirvana. Great place but empty as usual we were the only guests. This place had a coral beach although the same issue of only being able to swim at high tide. We worked out the last day would be

A little under two weeks spent in the north island visiting friends and exploring some of the highlights went by too quickly. I landed in Auckland explored some with my friend Kim and within a few days found myself in Mt. Maunganui on the Bay of Plenty. What a beautiful little town fun and touristy and right on the water. I climbed the mountain on a crisp blueskied day and was rewarded with vie

The excitement of future trips is heightened by a wee peak at posts from previous travels. I can smell the Beach in Rio and the tea in Sri Lanka but this year there is an air of Winter about our trip. If the sun shines it may be tipped with a hint of snow and a Maori nose rub. Ok we are off to New Zealand via Tokyo with a couple of stop off's in Sydney and Honkers on the way home. Now as long a

pictures of water at the camp. the first is a woman drawing water by the bucket. SA trying to discourage since water is not good...but they use it for washing clothes. other pics are water supplied daily by trucks. it is absolutely amazing to me how clean everyone is. they wash themselves daily under the most primitive of conditions. women are scrubbing clothes in a pan of water and draping t

Hi allarrived here early this morning. The trip from Jackson was interesting. Did you know you can smoke in restaurants here Strange... We took a longer route and came across the causeway. Probably a mistake because Bill is not a fan of driving across any bridge with water underneath and I honestly thought he would have a heart attack. He started to sweat gripping the wheel and smoking. The

Hey everyone Whangarei was a bust for the job market so Kerstin and I have traveled down to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty not to be confused with the Bay of Islands. The hostel wersquore staying at is called I kid you not ldquoJust the Ducks Nutsrdquo which just about made me spit out the water I was drinking a similar incident happened when I had to explain to Kerstin and a girl from

Malta beautiful place

Bathing is an effort for them. Little children are bathed in pans or buckets in the camp mostly. Larger children and adults use other methods. See pics.