LauraDom - Miss Anstey and Señor Dom

We are Laura and Dom, we have both just graduated from Exeter University and are orginaly from Bristol in the UK and are excited about our upcoming travels!

PREVIOUS TRIPS: We have had some amazing adventures, three years ago we spent ten weeks in South America seeing Brazil, Boliva and a little bit of Peru. We then popped to Spain for 6 weeks, Slovenia and Croatia and then Dom took me to Poland for my 21st birthday, and then I think we went to Amsterdam, but can't really remember!

UPCOMING TRIPS: But now we are planning to go to South East Asia starting in Kula Lumpar, Malaysia, and then have about 5 months to travel before we will end up in Japan where we begin teaching English in April!

So we thought this would be the best way to keep in contact with all of our lovely friends, and our families! So don't be a stranger, email us, let us know what is going on in your life and we will try not to make you too jealous!!

LEAVE DATE: November 7th 2008
DESTINATION: Malaysia
JAPAN START DATE: 1st April 2009
RETURN DATE: Who knows!!!

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Last Login: November 19th 2008

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By LauraDom
November 14th 2008

Melaka

Asia » Malaysia » Malacca » Malacca Town

When a monkey got angry at Laura

One of the most surprising things about Kuala Lumpur, apart from using British plug sockets, how developed it is, and how old most of the tourists are (40+), is the increbile amount of rubbish everywhere. Street cornbers are piled with the stuff, and tourist attractions fare no better. Jenga-like stacks of plastic bottles are everywhere you look. Before leaving the capital we decided to visit the caves of Batu just outside of town. They are the site of the annual self-mutilation ceremonies that many of you have probably read about, or seen in pictures of hoards of people whipping their own [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
November 8th 2008

Kuala Lumpur

Asia » Malaysia » Selangor » Kuala Lumpur

Laura in buterfly park

KL is hot! Today the sweat drips down my everything as I sit under two fans. Damn. Kuala Lumpur is a confusing city. This isn't helped by poor directions to hostels, but that aside the real problem with the city itself is the lack of a codefied identity. First impressions bring to mind Spain, Turkey, and any number of places. There is no real sense of individuality as a city. It is a cocktail of a place. The population is a mixture of Chinese, Indian and Malay. This is reflected in the foods and sounds of the city. A visit to [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
September 19th 2005

Its been a busy last week, Puno - LaPaz - Puerto Suarez - Corumbá - Sao Paulo - Paraty - Angra dos Reis - Illha Grande - Rio De Janeiro

South America » Brazil » São Paulo » São Paulo

gosh

well its been a while but im afraid we have come to an end. This the 19th is our last day! The emails begging our parents for extra money so we could stay here an extra month, or 6 failed so we are on our way home this afternoon. Its been an adventure, but its okay because now we are planning our next one. last minute dash We´re in Rio again now but getting here was a bit of a struggle, with less than 10 days to go we suddenly realised that we were in Peru, humm, so a taxi to [View Full Entry]

Miles and miles of white sand...and even whiter tourists

By LauraDom
September 8th 2005

The last fortnight starts with a splash and me falling off a horse

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco

we saw some sheep before this, and the american girl asked if they were sheep or llamas

Yeah okay I fell off a horse. Not far though, and I was trying to get off. After our adventures in Machu Picchu last blog, we decided to try out the wonders of Incan hub, Cusco. The 4 hour train ride back from Aguas Calientes was a shocker - it was so unbearably hot leaving at 4pm. Some boy started having hallucinations and sobbing, though laura said he was just a drama queen. Anyway, back in Cusco we went and signed up for a horseback tour through some local ruins on the first day, white water rafting on the second, and [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
September 2nd 2005

Blimey O Riley! Machu Picchu!

South America » Peru » Cusco » Machu Picchu

half way up machu picchu mountain

It was like the ice-creams in Dumbos, it was as good, if not better than we expected! And for the first time ever i was actually speachless!! We caught a train to Aguas Callientes (litterally meaning hot water thanks to the natural hot springs found there) At 6am from Cusco and arrived at around 3ish. The train ride was surprisingly nice, well the parts we were awake for were, the scenery was beautiful although i did spot a magot infested dog carcas on the side of the tracks! Aguas Callientes was just as beautiful with imposing mountain ranges surrounding the town [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
September 1st 2005

We was robbed

South America » Peru » Puno

doh

Well it finally happened - we got stuff nicked by some dastardly Peruvians. Nothing much of value was taken, and we still have all our photographs stored (don't worry,we've made sure we can still take pictures etc by way of a cheap digi camera) so it doesn't really matter that much, but it's annoying that it happened. It was about 6.45am, and we were trying to catch a bus that was trying very hard to avoid us. We had booked it with a lady who had said it would pick us up from our hotel, which it didn't. We then had [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
August 30th 2005

A night as a Cholita

South America » Peru » Puno » Lake Titicaca » Taquile Island

Our new family (sorry folks)

well its been one adventure after another recently. Early to rise and we were on our way to the floating islands on Lake titicaca, most impresssive! The Islands actually float!! There are reeds packed together to form a base, and the roots of the reeds float hence keeping the island from sinking, the only thing keeping it in one place are stakes going directly through the island. The views from the island were lovely but unfortuantly the islands are so over comercialised it kind of spoils it, although we did get to buy some lovely lovely tourist goods!! After a while [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
August 28th 2005

Goodbye lake titicaca...hello more lake titicaca

South America » Peru » Puno

dom enjoying the view
...it´s the other side

Well La Paz was great and everything, a little high but it was okay, great shopping and cheap as chips! But Itchy feet caught up with us so we packed up our things and got on a bus and ended up in Puno, Peru!! But our last few days in La Paz were very adventurous indeed.... Tiwanaku We finally gave in and decided to join a tour group, you know those annoying groups of people in North Face coats, bags, hats, gloves, underpants, who wear safari hats in the middle of the city, well we were one of those! But it [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
August 25th 2005

Titicaca island break

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Lake Titicaca

white people?

First some travel information: Anyone thinking of going to Titicaca beware that, a) the town you will most probably start at, Copacabana, has no cash machine. You can get a cash advance for a commission, but it´s best to just stock up on Bolivianos before you go. b) nowhere on the Illa del sol will take US dollars unless you offer about twice the price. Most locals will tell you a dollar is worth 6 Bs, when it is 8 and will accept nothing else (though a friendly lady changed some for us at 8). Take warm clothes too, it´s cold! [View Full Entry]

By LauraDom
August 18th 2005

I fell off my bike on the most dangerous road in the world

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz

hehe

For those thinking of doing the death road biking trip, check the end of this blog for helpful (I hope) advice! Well our plans are never quite set in stone are they? Our plans for La Paz have proved no different to any others - We planned 5-10 days of Spanish lessons here, but the fact that I got explosive diahorrea and vomiting from some really bad (well, it was good...) street food put us off that for a couple of days, and then Laura came down with something. Also the altitude here is sickening, and not fun to move around [View Full Entry]

Too tough for slippers... burgermeat oh yeah!

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