http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/L-and-J-in-Portugal/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from L and J in Portugal en-us Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:47:54 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:47:54 +0000 We headed inland for a couple of nights for cafes shopping lush scenery and plenty of monkeys. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Ubud/blog-420942.html We headed to Bali for some beach time. It's the middle of the dry season here and we got lucky because we had three out of four days with blue sky. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Nusa-Dua/blog-420917.html Two nights in Vientiane for temples riverside dinner and drinks before catching an Air Asia flight to Kuala Lumpur. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vientiane/blog-420916.html Our first visit to Laos started in Luang Prabang. It was a welcome visit after four days in bigcity Bangkok. In Luang Prabang we visited temples woke up to monks collecting sticky rice in town went swimming at a beautiful waterfall and spent a lot of time just relaxing in laidback Laos. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-420912.html Back in Bangkok one more time to see more of the city. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-418003.html Meeting up with Megan and friends in the exciting lively and underrated capital of Cambodia. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-417433.html Visiting one of the biggest temple complexes in the world at Angkor Wat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-417385.html Visiting the culture capital of Thailand for temples markets and culinary adventures. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-414125.html One day in Bangkok to see the Grand Palace and a few other sights before heading north to Chiang Mai. We're headed back to Bangkok for a few more days later in the trip. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-413914.html One night stay in Manila to visit the University of Philippines Diliman. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-413763.html One of the most beautiful beach towns we've ever visited Boracay a short flight south from Manila in the Philippines.The first day on the beach was beautiful the perfect day topped with an amazing sunset. The second day was overcast and rainy and the last day Wednesday June 24 we woke up to Tropical Storm Nangka or Feria as it is locally called. We may be here a day or two longer th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Boracay/blog-411710.html Ultramodern skyscrapers city museums alleyway shopping and more fun in Shanghai our last stop in China. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-411697.html Sightseeing in Beijing June 15 16 and 17 2009 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-410529.html 1st stop on honeymoon June 2009. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-409634.html We left Boquete and took a short flight from David to Bocas del Toro. Most of the flying time was spent circling higher and higher over David so that we could clear the mountains that run through the center of Panama and get down to the Caribbean coast. Bocas del Toro is a chain of islands near the Costa Rican border and we stayed just on the outskirts of Bocas Town the biggest town in the are http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Bocas-Del-Toro/blog-266158.html From Panama City we flew to David second largest city in Panama and drove around 45 min. to Boquete. Boquete is a relatively small town 6200 people according to Wikipedia in the mountains near the border with Costa Rica. It is growing really quickly due to a large influx of American and Canadian retirees. We saw a lot of gringos around town and were amazed at all of the billboards in Engli http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Chiriqui/Boquete/blog-266134.html We took a trip to Panama over Jason's spring break in March. We started in Panama City then headed to the mountain town of Boquete and then spent a couple of days in Bocas del Toro a chain of islands on the Caribbean side before heading back to Panama City. On our first night in Panama City we stayed at La Casa de Carmen a hostelbudget hotel that had gotten great reviews. We met some fun http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-City/blog-275948.html We were a little hesitant to go back to Panama City after the less than good first impression we had gotten of it. But it was either go to Panama City or sleep on the beach in Bocas in the rain so we went. We stayed at a hotel that was recommended by some people we'd met in Bocas who were going to be staying there for our second night. It was pretty nice and when we asked for a room with a v http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-City/blog-266015.html http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/blog-261428.html We spent a couple of nights in Freiburg as part of our road trip around southern Germany. We stayed at the Black Forest Hostel which was great. It was kind of industrial feeling and had a really nice functional kitchen that we used to make dinner one night. It was located just a couple of minutes from the town center and the room we had the first night was on the side of the building that fa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Baden-W-rttemberg/Freiburg/blog-236647.html