http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Around the World in 200 days/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Around the World in 200 days en-us Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:20:06 UTC Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:20:06 UTC We left Yosemite and headed west through California and to the coast to the super city of San Francisco. We still had a few hours before we handed our hire car back so we weaved our way through the city and drove right across that great big Golden Gate Bridge a nice looking bridge it is too and on into Muir woods. Muir woods is home to a very nice indeed collection of Giant Redwood trees the http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-288716.html After the party time we had in Vegas we were ready to head off and do some nature to have us a honeymoon. We assembled an elite squad for this early part of our honeymoon that consisted of the new Mr Mrs T and the Freckleton based trio of Mum and Dad Thompson and Auntie Von all in a lsquobigrsquo mini van. We found our mini van in the car park of the Mirage casino just like the chap sa http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arizona/Grand-Canyon-National-Park/blog-288686.html Most of you will know that we got married a few weeks ago in Las Vegas thanks very much to all of you who sent us kind messages we were touched by them indeed.We didn't manage to do any more blogs during the USA secton of our trip because we struggled to find internet stations so many apologies for not replying to your emails The USA has pretty much moved on from the internet cafe and it's http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-288685.html Well we had a right good few days out there on the Inca Trail super perfick it was top weather great guides we never grew tired of our guide calling us his 'super mountain hikers' and a top banana group made for an uber good trek. Each day was pretty hard going what with being up high and with the heat and all that but the trail was excellent and the scenery was amazing pretty much all of t http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Piura/M-ncora/blog-278795.html We left La Paz again and headed up the road for half an hour to La Cumbre which is well high up at 4900m. From here we picked up an Inca trail that we followed on foot down through the Andes for the next three days 56km the Choro Trek. It's really good the Choro trek because over the three days you decend from way up high at La Cumbre right down to a low of 1400m at Chairo which gave us http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Puno/Lake-Titicaca-/blog-272835.html We enjoyed some chill out time in Sucre Bolivia's judicial capital. Bolivia is an incredibly cheap place to travel in comparable to India and Vietnam so we treated ourselves to a posh hotel for a few days. Sucre felt like a small town really not too busy at all with lots of pleasant buildings a good place to chill.On one day we went to have a look at some dinosaur footprints they have clos http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-269673.html Our final stop in Argentina was in the north western city of Salta back into the Andes for us. Great big country Argentina 8th biggest in the world apparently just behind India about 960million less peoples living there though Salta is a good place to do outdoor pursuits and to party but we didn't do any of that because we had a cold each so we slowed our pace down and did some coughing an http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Tupiza/blog-264761.html We had a few fun filled non stop action packed crazy days in Buenos Aires. We'd barely landed there and we found ourselves in a transit van winding through the downdown streets of this hugemungous and exciting city. We arrived at our destination and were ushered into a building and up some stairs into a studio ready to learn some new skills we were ready to learn Tango The lesson was great fun http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Misiones/Puerto-Iguaz-/blog-260985.html We arrived in Santiago 5hrs before wed even set off from Auckland which is pretty good going given that we were on a plane for 11hrs.... So now for the moment were 3hrs behind the UK instead of the 13 ahead that we were in NZ. Time travel is pretty tiring though and we've taken a wee while and some big sleeps to get ourselves sorted but we're on top of it now.We enjoyed Santiago quite a pl http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Rio-Negro/San-Carlos-de-Bariloche/blog-257741.html As we write this blog not only are we half way around the world geographically speaking but we're also exactly 100 days into our 200 day trip and as coincidence would have it we're heading back towards Halifax today as our ever eastwards direction of travel starts to bring us homeWe left the delights of Napier on the east coast of the north island and headed into the mountainous interior by w http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-253622.html We left Queenstown and headed north and west through the mountains to the south island's west coast again this time to Glacier country. The Fox and Franz Josef glaciers are on NZ's west coast and are a couple of bigguns that are part of a select band of glacier's only 1 worldwide that are currently advancing as opposed to retreating. We decided to do an all day trek on the Fox Franz Josef i http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Napier/blog-248784.html Before we left Asia behind we had a couple of nights in Bangkok. It's a great city with lots going on and lots to see hustle and bustle shiny new buildings shiny old buildings freeways flyovers skytrain river traffic bars gogo bars neon signs temples palaces markets malls parks....Bangkok has got the lot. We'd already seen the most of it on a previous trip so this time we gave the http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-246061.html hello folks we're in Bangkok at the mo and we actually wrote this blog a couple of days ago in Cambodia but we had a few technical difficulties in getting it published we still haven't managed to get all of the piccies that we wanted onto it so we'll put more on in the next few days if we can.........We left Dalat in the Vietnamese Central Highlands and travelled south on a bus for around 8 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-240228.html The last thing we did in Northern Vietnam was a good thing an overnight boat tripcruise around Halong Bay. We did some cruising explored some rather fetching caves kayaked around a bit which was fun and did a spot of drinking too. We had a right good bunch of people on that boat trip. After that we headed back into Hanoi for the last time to catch a train headed south down the coast.Hanoi h http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Vietnam/Central-Highlands/Da-Lat/blog-235864.html Happy New Year Everybody Have a fabulous 2008....After a day looking around Hanoi we jumped on an overnight train up into northern Vietnam's mountain country Sapa alt 1650m close to the Chinese border. We pushed the boat out and travelled in style in our very own private cabin We arrived in Sapa on New Years Eve. The hats and the gloves came out straight away as it was a wee bit chilly to say http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-233330.html Since we last typed we've spent time in India's southern state of Kerala and India's 'beach state' of Goa. In Kerala we spent a couple of days in Kollam and did a trip around the narrow back waters which was jolly good fun indeed. Then we made our way up north via an 8 hour boat trip through the natural waterways and what not to the town of Allapuzah which was a jolly pleasant way to spend the day http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/India/Goa/Palolem/blog-230678.html Pushkar was jolly good and chilled out. We got up at 430am to leave Pushkar drive over a big hill and then leave on a 615am train South from Ajmer. On arrival at the Ajmer station we were greeted with the sentence Sorry sir but your train is now leaving in 10 hours time not the words you want to hear at 530am but at least it was delivered with a smile..........Hence we did jump into a rick http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-228959.html Hi guys Well we've survived the first week....and a bout of Delhi belly each too Loads of curries we've had but we have to confess that we've had to tuck into some pizzas and chips over the past couple of days to help things.................settle downDelhi was quite smelly and crazily busy people there are very friendly in fact you only have to stand still for a moment before you're surrou http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-226298.html