http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Bucket-list/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Bucket list en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:49:50 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:49:50 +0000 Wednesday Woke at 7.30 and went to go for a shower. No hot water in fact no water at all so you couldn't even flush the squat toilets. Not a happy camper A water pipe had busted up the mountain due to another landslide. We were keen to move on and not stay another night in Zhamgmu. Ling arranged for us to go to Nepal a day early. Our drivers and guide drove us to the border crossing which http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-440706.html Friday Up at 5am for 5.30 departure from hotel. Chengdu airport was bigger than I expected and for some reason we seemed to travel there via back roads. Boarded plane at 8am but our plane was delayed so the hostesses proceeded to serve us our meal while we sat on the tarmac. Very bizzare The plane was empty so most of our group managed to get window seats and we finally took off 1 12 hours lat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-436701.html After a long flight we finally arrived at 11pm Friday in Beijing. Our cab could not get into the area of our hotel due to city being closed off for some student exercise. 100000 students had been brought in to practice for national day march on Oct 1 at 11pm at night. We had to go to another hotel at midnight. After driving us for nearly 80 minutes we had no idea how much to pay him but the hote http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-432592.html Ha NoiFlying Airasia from the Gold Coast with really cheap flights got off to a bad start with flight cancellation due to engine fault but they chartered us a flight the next day with Malaysian Airlines and all food and drink was included plus onward travel rearranged for us as we had connecting flights to Ha Noi with Air Asia that we missed. A good result in the end thanks Air AsiaFlying into H http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-416308.html