Blogs from Asia - page 15983

Nihau (Hello). Well, we’re back with a new update from the most bustling city in all of China. Here’s an account of what got us here. Our last update was from Beijing where we pretty much did nothing but sit around and drink for the latter half of our week there. We ate at our favourite local restaurant once or twice per day and had fun ordering from our own menu (provided by the faithful Lonely Planet). The food here (both at this restaurant and all over the country) is absolutely fantastic. After exiting from Mongolia (where the food is … hmmm … crap) it was even more enjoyable to have such culinary delights as Sechuan Chicken, Stir Fried Vegetables and Beijing Duck. I swear Eric is making up form Mongolia by eating twice as much ... read more

Sain Bainuu (Hello there). Well, since our last message from Irkutsk we've had quite an adventure indeed. Eric managed to get himself left behind at a train station on the way to Mongolia. Here's his version of the story: We had 50,000 roubles left, so at the last stop before the border, I went out to spend it at any shop I could find. I asked the provodnitsa (train attendant) how long the stop was; I asked 'pyaht naht zut minutes', which is 15. She though I said 'pyaht minutes' which is 5, so agreed with me. So I wandered off to spend our money (about $9 US), only to see the train pulling away as I tried to pay. So I ran after the train, but it was going faster than me. Just as I ... read more

trip to myanmar in 1997... read more

A place very different from everything else We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about maybe a handful of those. We will write when we have the time and time is usually scarce so these blog entries will be long in between. Here is the first one and it is about a country very few have visited – North Korea where Ake spent five days in late April and early May 1997. But before I begin the travel tale there are a few things I would like to say 1 This is a travel story, not a political statement. We try to avoid political statements because we don't think this blog is the right place for those. 2 When I ... read more

Preview The Orissa trip took place when I was in 9th Standard in school. It had been quite a while I had been anywhere outside Calcutta. The same daily routine school life - board bus early the morning ,attend school classes and attend tuitions after that. Life was monotonous and tiring and it was almost 4 years in row. I realized that I was in a rat race like many others where successful school life was the only motto to survive but which in turn made me work and live life like robot. I longed for fresh air, travel far leaving the maddening crowd of Calcutta, away from self-centered nerds in school to sea and enjoy tranquility. It was very unlike me to stay at one place specially after the glorious early years in my life ... read more