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My limited travels of the world so far...

I started writing this blog to try and keep any interested parties updated on my travels.
I actually haven't been that greta on updating it as often as I should of really. I could say I was too busy seeing the world to spend time writing about it but I think the real excuse was that I have just been a bit lazy at doing it!

I have already arrived home now. I set off on 19th Aug 2007 and returned home on 8th June 2008.
I will just finish off a few more entries for the countries that I have missed now that I'm home and have time too..

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By Claire Lewis
May 6th 2008

Hoi An to Dalat Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast » Hoi An

I did get quite a lot of clothes made here... It was too tempting to not. Almost every shop is a tailors and everything is such good value!! I reckon it would even be worth paying for a flight to come out here just to have clothes made. Mind you.. on getting mine back they weren't exactly as I'd invisioned them.. so depends how fussy you are I suppose! There is a really lovely beach about 3km from the town centre so Marc and I hired bikes and went for a visit while waiting for our tailoring. After Hoi An I [View Full Entry]

By Claire Lewis
May 4th 2008

South Vietnam Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast

My last entry was from Sapa in the far north of Vietnam, after there I went south via Hanoi again to Hue on the North Central Coast. In Hue there are some really impressive ancient tombs of former kings that mostly manged somehow to avoid being bombed during the war. After arriving at about 7am on an overnight bus I met a motorbike guide, Hui. He persuaded me to go to the guest house he was recommending and then also for him to come and collect me again at 9 and go with him for a tour around the tombs. The [View Full Entry]

By Claire Lewis
April 27th 2008

Trekking in Sapa Asia » Vietnam » Northwest » Sapa

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Here are just some photos at the moment of our trekking in Sapa, I will try and update this with more info soon.. Sapa is a little town in the mountains in the North of Vietnam near to the Chinese border. The area is surrounded by many villages lived in by hill tribes who still wear their traditional dress everyday. We did a 2 day trek there includign a homestay with a family. [View Full Entry]

waiting for us to get out of our car so they can start selling!!

By Claire Lewis
April 26th 2008

North Vietnam, Hanoi and Halong Bay Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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I have missed adding entries for Thailand and have only just added Laos but it really difficult to find internet that is fast enough to upload photos to here so this has taken ages even. I liked Hanoi, it is a really busy, smoggy city, but much cooler than what I have been used to in Laos and Thailand so felt quite freshing. The city has an old quarter with lots of narrow streets and many, many shops selling anything you could possibly want! There is gernerally a street fro each product too which makes shopping easier, so a street full [View Full Entry]

By Claire Lewis
April 19th 2008

Laos Asia » Laos » West

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Laos is a really beautiful and amazing country. Carelessly I didn't plan my Vietnam visa very well and so I could have spent much longer in Laos but every extra day more than I'd planned was taking time from my Vietnam visa. I got the slow boat along the Mekong river from the Thai border down to Louang Phabang. The boat took two days of about 9 hours with an overnight stop in a village, Pak Beng along the way. The journey was not the most comfortable ever, but I quite enjoyed it. I had heard stories and so prepared myself [View Full Entry]

the slow boat down the Mekong, from north Thailand to Louang Phabang

By Claire Lewis
March 14th 2008

Dunedin and the the South of the South Island Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

a beach we stopped at along the Caitlins

The Stray bus only goes every three days to the South bit so we had to stay that long everytime we stopped anywhere. Dunedin was a nice place to spend the time though. Dundein has a massive student population and we spent St Patrick's Day there with some irish lads so it was really fun. Queenstown is a really really nice place, really fun and picturesque too. There are really lovely views back down over the town and Lake and mountains that surroung it from the top of the Gondola. Kate and I decided to walk up rather than take the [View Full Entry]

By Claire Lewis
March 11th 2008

Stewart Island Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Stewart Island » Rakiura National Park

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Stewart Island is the 3rd largest island in New Zealand and one of the few places with lots of Kiwi's, birds out number people by a long way.. The ferry crossing to the island from Invercargil almost made it not worth it as it was so rough. People were being sick all around me and the only way I could feel better was sitting as still as possible and trying not to look at any of them, it was worth it though as the island is really pretty and quite, lots of lovely beaches and coves, birds, walks. Kate ( [View Full Entry]

By Claire Lewis
March 11th 2008

Milford Sound Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Fiordland National Park » Milford Sound

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The drive to Milford Sound is suposed to be one of the most beautiful drives in New Zealand. Milford Sound is actually a fjord, created by a glacier moving to the sea, and not a sopund which is a flooded valley, it was just wrongly classified by the first exploer that discovered it. It is the wettest place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world, receiveing about 7m of rain a year. We saw it in one of these lovely rainy periods.. The fjord streches about 15m inland and the sheer rock faces rises about 1,200m on [View Full Entry]

some of the many waterfalls down the side of the valleys

the view from the coach on what is supposed to be one of the most beautiful drives in New Zealand

By Claire Lewis
March 4th 2008

The West Coast Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » West Coast

Pancake rocks again

Along the west coast we stopped at a tiny little village called Barrytown. There is nothing else there other than the pub/guest house we stayed at really and we had a v random fancy dressed night… That is the disadvantage of Stray actually is stays in some v random places and you have no choice but stay there too. The cross dressing night was actually quite fun but the fact that we had no choice but attend put me off a little. We then stopped at a few sights for photos along the way to Franz Joseph Glacier. Franz Joseph Glacier, [View Full Entry]

some more seals we stopped to have a little look at

By Claire Lewis
February 28th 2008

starting the South Island Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Nelson Region

some seals we Kayaked to in the NP Marine Reerve

After National Park I got the bus to Wellington. I wouldn't really recommend travelling by bus in New Zealand by public transport. The bus was fine but the timings aren't great. Anita & I planned to get a bus from Taupo to National Park but there are only 2 buses a day so we missed that and decided to hitchhike instead. This was act a much better plan as we got picked up within about 5 mins and got dropped off exactly where we wanted to go, and saved $30 perfect! Wellington seems like a really nice city. I only spent [View Full Entry]

preparing the kayaks, the weather was quite grim as you can see

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