http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Hanging with Anne/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Hanging with Anne en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:42:27 BST Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:42:27 BST The day before I arrived in the Philippines I found out that a pretty big typhone had passed through. Wow talk about being lucky From the airport in Manila it took 2 12 hours to get to the boat. The sea was angry that day Instead of taking 1 hour to reach the island of Puerto Galera it took 4 hours There were 2 other passengers on the boat and they were sea sick probably wishing that http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Puerto-Galera/blog-279987.html From Wikipedia the free encyclopediaSipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia rising 2000 feet or 600m from the seabed. It is located in the Celebes Sea east of the major town of Tawau and off the coast of East Malaysia on the Island of Borneo. It was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands of years to develop. Sipadan is located at the heart http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Semporna/blog-274950.html Angkor temples in Siem Reap in Cambodia. There is a mixture of Hindu and Buddhist temples it really depended on the religious preference of the reigning king of the time. These temples are the pride of the Khmer people. It is not hard to understand this considering all the hardships that the Cambodians went through...and throughout all this these temples survived.It is recommended to take a w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-273840.html I decided to go to Perhentian Island for some sun and sand. This island is found on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the South China Sea. Ahhso beautiful It took 2 planerides 1 hour of taxi and 45 minutes of boat to get to this island.I am happy to say that this is where I completed my 100th dive Apparently tradition among divers is to celebrate this all important milestone by di http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-268604.html My parents bought me a bicycle when I arrived in Nha Trang so I could follow them to the beach and to the market. My father's advice about understanding traffic and avoiding colliding into another vehicle proved priceless. The hierarchy of rights of way is big trucks cars motorbikes bicycles and then pedestrians. Ohhh....good to know when you grew up in a town where it is the pedestrians w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Nha-Trang/blog-244415.html Ahhh the sweet smell of clean humidity That was the first impression I had of Singapore. Very nice indeed...I guess that you have to appreciate the citylife the strict rules drinkable tap water Englishspeaking population and efficiency of this city when you've been traveling in developing countries for a few months. I certainly did. I rest here for a few months use Singapore as my hub t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-233106.html I must admit that I was a little apprehensive about visiting Thailand because of my ignorance with the prevalent sex industry there but as you can see from the photos Thailand offers so much more and am glad that I went. The people are so relaxed and easygoing the food was fantastic and the scenery wonderful.I ended up learning how to say I am not Thai I am Vietnamese some...MOST misto http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-228411.html Instead of taking 6 hours from Mumbai to get to the Maldives it took me 16 hours Sri Lankan Airlines never explained the reasons for the delay. 10 of us missed our connecting flight from Colombo to Maldives and were put up in the airport hotel. I seriously thought that the liveaboard would leave without me and was forced to take interest in my travel insurance for reimbursement. Luckily for http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Maldives/Male-Atoll/blog-228405.html Mumbai was fun I was reunited with friends from work both from Montreal and from the Mumbai office. Eversince I knew that the offshoring project was happening I wanted to go to India. I came close to going for work twice but to my disappointment those travel plans fell through. So you can only imagine my excitement when I saw the offices. There are no real pictures of the office the se http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-225915.html India India beloved India the lonely planet described this country as overwhelming and full of contrast. It means nothing when you read that you cannot imagine what that really is until you are there...Unlike many foreigners coming to visit this country I did not go in search of spiritual enlightenment but I sure as hell learnt a lot about myself there Under 45 degree heat with SO many pe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-225913.html Cape Town Gordan a taxi driver sold us on a private drive all the way down to Cape Point. He said that his Mercedes was comfortable and reliable...why wouldn't it be why did this need to be emphasized At 7am Gordan pulls up in a 1970's Mercedes just about to fall apart in order to roll up the window you had to take the glass between both hands and manually slide it up I had to sit on a b http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/blog-225912.html I am SOOOO lucky I remember asking my boss if I could take time off to travel the world. He gave me this are you crazy no fking way look. It seemed that the only acceptable way to leave work for a long period of time was to get pregnant and go on maternity leave You can't leave to travel the world that wayIf you get the chance you go work for a big financially unstable company. Cross http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-172953.html