BoysOnTheRoad

From Dubai we did a short sidetrip of one week to Oman. Short, but enough to see some highlights and get a taste of a country we probably would never visit otherwise. Oman is a wealthy country with a high living standard, and is still a very traditional muslim country: all men wear white jalabah's with traditional hats and the woman are dressed in black clothes with veils or burka's. Small mosks can be found on virtually every corner of the street. We can honestly say that Omani people are some of the most welcoming people we met on our trip. Locals are extremely happy to see you and are very helpful. They all want to have a chat with you to practise their English. Tourism in Oman is still in its infancy and most tourists ... read more

Okay, don't get confused: we are posting a blog about Cambodia but are allready some time in India now. We just couldn't find internet in India untill now. While we are posting this blog the teller reads “ 165 days on the road”. Pffew, it really doesn't seem that long! 154 days, mostly in the tropics, without any incident? Something was bound to happen sooner or later. And yes, Raf got dengue (or whatever it was) near the end of our stay in Laos and was running a high fever on Christmas day. Yes yes, and a Merry Fever to you too, thank you very much! We immediately went to the hospital the day after because the fever didn't go down. In the hospital they were thinking in the lines of malaria, dengue or lyme and ... read more

At the end of this blog you will know everything about: crazy chinese tourists crazy western hippies cheating temple monks (probably also crazy) crazy entrance fees and better: how to avoid them our first real case of sickness called “travellers fatigue” (us getting crazy?) our three highlights in China and how we went through the four seasons in four weeks time So, hmmm...where shall we start? We ended our last blog with the story about entering China. After entering we immediately headed for Kunming, a provincial city in the south-west of China. Kunming was quite a surprise. We had expected a sleepy provincial town (like we had seen some in our earlier visits to china, cfr. Bart's fourth visit and Raf's third to China) with it's occasional shopping malls, but still with the obligated old ladies ... read more

First a short note before we start: there are a lot of bloody pictures at the bottom of this page. Don't scroll further down if you can not stand blood.... Well, we have been in Thailand for only one week, but what a week. We spend most of our time in Phuket and a few days in Bangkok. Phuket is your standard touristic beach destination. You might as well go to Turkey for a beach holiday, you wouldn't notice the difference except that Thai people have these tiny eyes. It's also a place that was hit hard by the 2004 tsunami. Nowadays, you can not even notice there has ever been a tsunami at all. Everything has been rebuild and there are little reminders of the earlier tsunami. Except perhaps some warning signs on the beach ... read more

Another chapter coming to its end: Australia. Time to write down a few new lines for our 'mates' back home! Well, we have been definitely been honouring our name “boysontheroad” lately, as that is exactly what we have been doing for the last couple of weeks: being on the road. Being on the road for quite some miles, I may add. We have driven exactly 5870 kilometers in just 20 days. Not bad is it? :-) We started up in the tropical north of Australia, in Darwin, and then made our way down to the arid center, after which we backed up again to Darwin to drop off our campervan. So, more simply put : we went down an then up again, doing almost the same route twice. Quite crazy if you consider the distances up ... read more