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I'm a 24-year old student taking 6 months off from my studies to travel around the world! I'm travelling with my best friend Helena. We've been talking about doing a trip like this for years and now we're finally making it happen!
The plan is to pass through London on the way to South East Asia, where we're planning to travel around for about 2 1/2 months. We're starting up in Singapore and we're continuing to Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia and then back to Bangkok to catch a flight to Bali. After a weeks relaxation in Bali we're continuing to Australia and New Zealand where we are going to spend a bit less than a month. Then continuing to Chile and after that we don't have any set plans except that in June we're flying back from Brazil to London and then back to Helsinki. We've been thinking about Peru and Argentina but who knows...
Welcome to follow my journey around the world!
Joined on: December 28th 2007
Last Login: August 10th 2008
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Last Login: August 10th 2008
Blog Entries: 13
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May 16th 2008
May 16th 2008
Like two different worlds or The country that never sleeps
South America » Argentina » Salta » Salta
We arrived to Argentina with the plan to stay a few weeks in Buenos Aires, studying spanish and maybe taking some tango classes in the evenings. After all the travelling around and having to constantly move on from one place to another I was really looking forward to staying in one place for a longer time. We arrived to Argentina in the autumn so it was time to say goodbye to warm weather and that lovely tan of ours that we had been working on for so long! The start to our trip in Argentina wasn't too great. We arrived to [View Full Entry]
We left New Zealand at 6.30 pm on Sunday and after a 11 hour flight we arrived to Santiago at 2.30 on the same day! Very confusing this date line business... We were a bit of a mess, but had decided not to go to bed before the evening, because we wanted to prevent getting a bad jetlag. Our host Carlos came to meet us at the airport and kept us busy the whole day making sure we didn't get to bed at any abnormal time. We went out for lunch after which we met up with Carlos' friend Majid. We [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 8 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=274280] | 2008-05-11 19:15:56
The start of our trip in New Zealand was very exciting and a bit nerve wrecking. We arrived in Christchurch by air and went straight from the airport to pick up our car, OUR CAR! Very exciting! Driving on the wrong (a.k.a. left) side of the road in a foreign country might not sound like a good idea, but it was. We stayed one night in Christchurch, which is a city on the northwest coast of the Southern Island, and started our roadtrip the next morning. We were supposed to leave really early, but Helena forgot to reset her watch to [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 22 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=272518] | 2008-05-09 22:38:41
After 3 months in South East Asia it felt a bit like coming home, when we landed in Australia. Everywhere is clean and pretty quiet, all the streets aren't completely full with people and the traffic is very organised. The cities have lot of nice parks and gardens... It felt good to be in a western country again. It just makes life so much easier that people understand what you say, you understand them and you pretty much know how it all works! Although I have to admit, that I didn't really remember how it all works in a western country. [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 17 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=266635] | 2008-04-24 00:55:37
After 2 months of travelling around and always having to move along to the next new place we felt we wanted to go somewhere familiar, where we had been before and where we had some friends. No we didn't go back home to Finland... We went back to Malaysia, of course! We'd had enough of those crappy buses so we decided to catch a flight. Our first stop on the way was Singapore where we met up with Partha, the partyboy. After only one night we continued to KL and reunited with our friend Pika and his wonderful family, that we [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=263269] | 2008-04-15 00:36:20
Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse after the bus ride from Hell... We arrived in Vinh and we're dropped of at a random street somewhere. As our guidebook didn't say anything about the place, we didn't have a clue of where we were and where we should be going and we didn't have any Vietnamese currency, only a few US dollars. A small comfort was the fact that we weren't the only ones with this problem. We were accompanied by two malaysian guys we met on the bus who didn't have a guidebook nor a map. We started [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=254538] | 2008-03-13 10:23:46
The bus from Vientiane to Vinh turned out to be a nightmare. When we got to the bus it was crammed with people. There were no seat numbers on our tickets and the seats filled up according to the laws of the jungle. We got the last seats. Anna thought she was lucky to get a seat in the middle of the backseat so she could have a lot of space for her legs, but no, in the last minute a tiny Asian guy was shown to the backseat to share the seat with her! Not very comfortable, since that meant [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 8 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=250499] | 2008-02-27 05:08:05
Laos feels like a breeze of fresh air after the hectic atmosphere in Thailand: less traffic, less people, less developed and very laid back. Perfect! We arrived to Vientiane after approxiamtely 16 hours of travelling with two different buses, two tuk tuks and after standing in line to get our visa... Luckily enough we found a room at a reasonable price pretty quickly. We had no time to rest because we had to get to the Vietnamese embassy before it closed to get a visa to Vietnam. So we grabbed a quick lunch, rented a scooter and headed for the embassy. [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 13 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=243836] | 2008-02-15 14:46:04
I can understand why Thailand is so popular among tourists: the beaches are paradise perfect, the sea is crystal clear and turquoise, the sun is shining all the time and the food is fantastic. But there are some bad sides too: Theres a lot of hassle! You can be sure, that almost anyone who'll come up and talk to you is trying to gain something from your chat, most likely try to sell you something. The taxi and tuk tuk drivers try to charge you double or triple price or even more than that. But don't get me wrong, Thai people [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 10 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=240908] | 2008-02-01 11:05:58
Our next destination on the trip was Pulau Pangkor, a small island on the west coast of Malaysia. Pangkor turned out to be a cute, quiet and low key-resort with nice beaches and very cute pink taxis. We stayed at a hostel right next to the beach and slept our nights in a small simple hut. We enjoyed the beachlife and the relaxed atmosphere of the island and just laid back for two days. We also met up with Anna and Ville and had some excellent seafood, again... I noticed that the sun was a bit stronger than I expected and [View Full Entry]
Anna N - Anna Nummelin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=237093] | 2008-01-21 08:03:43