http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/EdwardC/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from EdwardC en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:00:11 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:00:11 +0000 Well New Zealand is nothing quite like one would ever come to expect and yet hugely varying. Well if I describe forests and mountains that would be forceeable but it taking about miniature topical juggles Alakan chilliness and Moonlike terrain might sound less familiar none have I known first hand this sepicically mentioned because of my brother but merely through pictures and figures of speac http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-454353.html Just as in the famous movie of Australia it didn't lack in drama... Arriving in Perth was a chilling experience. Travelling in shorts and tshirt was a bad idea as at night it is excessively cold. The winter having barely come to an end in the Southern hemisphere cold gusts are quite common at mid October. The journey into town was amusing as firstly the temperature had risen by ten degrees in t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-454289.html The final stop to my Asia trip following just under four months of intensive travel throughout its range.We had visited Bali possibly 11 years earlier and in spite the memories of a child are never all that accurate certain aspect strook me. The airport which I remebered as small and quaint has become a endlessly extended building taking in the largest Boeings.I arrived and headed to Kuta centre http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/blog-445956.html Flew into Singapore and must confess I was dissapointed at first. i had anticipated the so spoken about cleansiness and fervant complicance to laws but found a place resonably clean but certainly very uncontrolled in respect to trafic and people.Singapore is quite small but suprsingly diverse. It seemed at first alike to Bangkok but actualy the more I went to the center the greater the change. I w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-445689.html Its been a while since I have last written but time has come to complete the Asian leg of my trip.South CoreaI arrived and spend a couple of days discovering the city. I was strook by how impeccably clean everthing was and the very much german engeneering styled perfection in their road infrastructure. Unlike China Seouls temples where more humble but not only due to the uncomparable size diffe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-445687.html Well the journey south was very pleasant with comfortable hard sleeper bunks quite a luxury in comparative to the standing or hard seats.I arrived early in Nanjing and tried to find accommodation but having been unsuccessful decided to continue straight to Shanghai the same evening and visit the town throughout the day.Nanjing is and odd town very developed with the 9th tallest skyscraper in the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-436498.html This little street where the hostel was located just 750 meters from Tian an Men square the main square of Beijing and the largest in the world was completely in rubles and earth when I arrived. By the time I left it was nearly finished entirely about 300 meters long and 5 meters wide. Chinese work very hard day and night. Very impressive but odd to another extent when these workers come fr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-436489.html Kashgar is nothing like I had ever expected. The first thing when I crossed the border from China I saw was a line of camels transporting goods across some rather rugged terrain. Kashgar is by no means real China. The Arabic writing the dark complection of everyone the attitude the streets the cloth quite essentially everything and anything is more or less like I would imagine Marroco or Ca http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-436443.html Well it has been a long time that I have not updated my blog but hopefully my memory will not be too poor at remembering the twist in the various stages that have gone by one my trip.After Karakol with the french family with whom I was traveling for that week we went to ChoponAta a hub of RussianKhazak holiday makers. The difference is tremendous going from quiet streets and rather useless boul http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/Bishkek/blog-436430.html Finally back on my blog. It is not all that easy to conect and when so only limited time available so I appologise for the delay.Obtaining the Tajik visa was suprisingly easy thought as I went though a travel agency only way for tourists to get hold of one they charged me a lot. Wanting to travel to the more remote region of the Pamirs they require a further permit but having some time on my han http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/Karakol/blog-423778.html It has been a while since I last updated this thought the very busy schedule and the complete lack of access to internet renders the updating difficult.Its been a facinating crossing leaving Russia going through Khazakstan and crossing all of Uzbekistan.The train journey lasted 46 hours from Astrakhan but it is just a fantastic experience. One dosn't see all that much outside but it is more the l http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Uzbekistan/blog-417749.html Moscow Volgograd 21hours... Train journey seem to be a lot of fun thought the heat at day reaching 36 to 38c can be a little overwhelming. People are friendly and gladly share they portions between one another. Speaking no russian makes it only that much more fun and entertaining... it is really travelling with the odrinary average russian across trully amazing time speared regions.Volgograd ex http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Volga/blog-413291.html Hello everyoneMoscow is one amazing place. The people the culture sights and life make it a fantastic town with a already very different attidudes in spite of its proximity to Europe.Arriving in Moscow is a bit of a riddle but once on the Metro network the destinations are clear and the stations true masterpieces. It is fast reliable and comes every few minutes so really enables an easy access http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Northwest/Moscow/blog-411095.html Hello Family and FriendsAs you know I am leaving on a world trip for six months through Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan hopefully Tibet China and finally USA. Well this is only the plan but hopefully it will all work out. I will attempt to regularly update pictures and stories of my trip on this blog to keep you all informed and up to speed.I am now in my final 48hours before departu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/South-West/Geneva/blog-409131.html