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Asia is the largest and most populous continent containing more than 60 percent of the world's human population. The Asian continent lies to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains and to the south of the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

Asia has a long history of a highly developed culture, and as a result holds many Wonders of the World and astounding historic sites. Asia also offers mountain ranges, volcanoes, idyllic islands, thriving cities and a diverse range of cultures.

Highlights

• Angkor Wat
• The Great Wall of China
• Tokyo
• Hong Kong
• The backpackers hub of Bangkok
• The Buddhist monasteries of Nepal
• The Himalayan Mountain Range
• The Temple of Heaven, Beijing
• Mt. Fuji
• Taj Mahal, Agra

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By JustJP
November 14th 2009

Japan (Tokyo) Budgeting Asia » Japan

Dear Ania&Tomek, - And all the others, who want to visit Japan (Tokyo) and would like to have fun, but must stick to the limited budget - as you have asked me about the prices in Tokyo, here they are. I have decided to put them on blog, as it may be valuable (yep, tokyo is rather expensive - but not as bad as may be described) info for other travellers. Let's begin from the morning. Food: My breakfast is: A bottle (500 ml) of coffee/water/(green) tea 140-160 yen (from the vending machine at the train station/on the road on the [View Full Entry]

By Erin and Dan
November 14th 2009

Friday the 13th; Who Says It's Unlucky? (Hello, Cambodia) Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap

Sitting in front of Angkor Wat

I love traveling. No. I LOVE traveling. From the moment a trip idea materializes in my brain until the moment I step off the return flight home. I love the planning, debating, talking, and reading about it. I even love paying for airline tickets, hotel rooms and new backpacks. There’s nothing like throwing the bare essentials into a bag, getting on an airplane and knowing you are about to have the experience of a lifetime; good OR bad. Nov. 13 Well, I’m in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and so far it’s all good. The moment I stepped off the plane and onto [View Full Entry]

By 977
November 14th 2009

A great day in Ao Nang, and touchdown in Luala Lumpur Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

Double BigMac

As it happens, Ao Nang delivers. If you read my fairly gargantuan last entry you'll know that I was running out of affection for Thai beaches, but one more turned out to be just the trick. We left Ko Lanta at 07:30 in a mini-bus, which was a good start, air conditioned, and the driver overtook almost continuously, only pausing for the car ferry to return to the mainland. I like overtaking, and this guy "doesn't afraid of anything". Oddly, despite pressing on through out the journey, he made time to stop off to pick up some live fish, and drop [View Full Entry]

By imisshockey
November 14th 2009

More of a Scuba than a Surfer Dude Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Kuta

My massive board!

Hello all, sorry it's been ages since my last travel update, just one of those stereotypical "having too much fun doing a whole lot of nothing" excuses. But now upon reflection I there has been much to discuss, so let's get to it! When last we left our crew was spliting up for a bit to have some time to chill apart. When you travel with the same people day after day every minute together you see you need a bit of space, so this was ours. I flew to Bali home of the legendary surf and met up with Marlise [View Full Entry]

By Laibakah
November 14th 2009

Some Random Things Asia » China » Shanghai

space heater

CHINA POST Getting to the post office is quite an ordeal. For some reason, they don't have many post offices around nor do they have postal boxes (like the red Canada Post drop-boxes). When it was warmer, I was able to walk to the post office, which is btw a 40 mins. walk! Now that it is colder, I need to take a taxi to get there. So about 2 weeks ago after school, Genelle and I asked Yolanda to help us get a taxi to go to the post office. She hailed a taxi quite quickly, but after she told [View Full Entry]

By RickGailBerry
November 14th 2009

Motorcycle Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan

The Bike Shop
It doesn't look like much from the outside, but there were a lot of new and used bikes here. We brought Ryan, a Chinese ESL teacher, with us. Ryan had just gone through this process of helping another... [more]

We joined the biker crowd in October. Who would have thought that this would have been our mode of transportation in China! Many of the locals and quite a few of the teaching staff have bikes, which really opens up your world. We have seen so much already that we never would have been able to on foot or by train. It is quite the sight for see us on the road - white haired Rick driving along with Gail gazing around taking pictures on the back. Too funny! The latest trip to the market was the best - it was [View Full Entry]

By dephil13
November 14th 2009

Bali Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Sanur

Rice Terraces
East Bali

Bali 6th November 2009 Having 'done' Myanmar David decided to look at where AirAsia fly to from Bangkok. Bali came up as ridiculously cheap so we just had to go. Added to which Ann wanted to be somewhere exotic for her 60th so Bali seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Overnighted at the very comfortable, if strangely named, Great Residency airport hotel at Bangkok we arrived in Bali to yet another hot and steamy country. As we had no Indonesian cash, we made for a set of ATM's in the arrivals lounge. To our horror the one we chose took [View Full Entry]

By mandy7
November 14th 2009

Day 8 - Xi'an Tour incl Terracotta Warriors Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

We have just got home from a massive tour today in Xi'an. We spent our first night at the Grand Mercure Hotel last night and neither of us had a good nights sleep and we really needed it. The beds are like concrete, we may as well be sleeping on the lobby floor. We have also had a problem with the large shower flooding the whole bathroom. We had to get more towels so Tam went to ask at reception. No-one understood English so she acted out drying her back with the towel. What a free show the reception staff got [View Full Entry]

By covemom
November 14th 2009

Shanghai Museum of Science and Technology Asia » China » Shanghai » Pudong

"Orient of the Light" sculpture
We saw this on our way to the museum. It is at the entrance to Century Square and I think is supposed to represent a sundial

On Sunday, November 8th, we went to the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai. Overall, I was impressed by the size of this museum. It had an extremely large variety of exhibits which were mostly marked well in English. The building itself was what impressed me the most. The central area is a large geodesic dome. There are also 4 different types of movie theatres - Imax Dome, 3-D Imax, 4-D and Space Theatre, unfortunately, the movies were only in Chinese, so we didn't go to any. There were many areas that we didn't have [View Full Entry]

By renzo59
November 14th 2009

Pingyao Asia » China » Shanxi » Pingyao

qiao family courtyard
along the way

great little town to stay for a few days and explore the surroundings lots of nice guesthouses to choose from [View Full Entry]

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