http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lou-and-Amy/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Lou and Amy en-us Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:45:20 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:45:20 +0000 The time has come for another entry we feel...So we bussed to lovely little Copacabana a little hippy town on the seaesque Lake Titikaka. Wed heard it was rather good you see. Copacabana holds a lot of the general Bolivian charms bowlerhatted women drunken drumpipe playing into the wee hours in candlelit plazas cocoa leaf chewing lots of altitude and everything cheap as chips. Its wh http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-City/blog-298932.html Amy here...Ill take over now or Louise will get RSI.So Lous birthday resulted in two days of recovery with lots of MTV on Ashlees sofa in Valpo and a very hasty decision for Louise and I to fly to the party city of Buenos Aires for a few days. This decision was made in large part due to the rave reviws wed heard of Argentinian meat and wine. And we werent disappointed. We stayed in the bohemi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-283843.html We know we know... here it is then...So Amy went tripping about in the countryside in the Cameron Highlands handling all manner of bugs and creatures and treking over carefully grown tea plantations. Unfortunately since Ive been designated the first half of this monstrous bloggap which we need to fill you in on I cant give you much more information than that. I can however tell you that I http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-283842.html Oh dear oh dear oh dear...it's been a while hasn't it. Well brace yourselves...A long long time ago in a country far far away Cambodia is where we left off. I believe we were still in Phnom Penh. Having a few drinks in our favourite bar The Magic Sponge full of British expats Cambodia is full of British people for some reason we spied a poster asking for volunteers at an orphanage in town http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Penang/George-Town/blog-269896.html Hey peoples Amy here.So we last left you in Hue on our way to Hoi An. First off you need to know that we got a hotel with a big fat wet swimming pool. And it was GOOOOOD. Our first swim and our first sun bathing. Other than that we spent most of our time there eating the local seafood traditionally wrapped in a banana leaf and making use of the other speciality tailored clothing. This meant si http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-259997.html Hello Louise again apologising for a lack of entries. We've been on the move a lot recently and frankly we're rather lazy. But I now get to fill you in on lovely Laos.We got our minivan to Chiang Khong a border town in Northern Thailand. We stayed there just one night as the slowboat departed the next morning. Then it was a few wasted hours of border officialdom borders are fast becomming one http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-256221.html Hello Louise here Amy's entrusted me to write one of my overly long entries on the past week during which we've been culturaling ourselves up all nice. On Thursday we set off on a trek with our hostel Eagle House. They're supposed to be the bees knees where eco tourism is concerned and they offer a nontourist trek into the junglecountryside not exactly sure what the definition of jungle i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-250943.html Amy here edited by Louisewe've got a lot to catch up on...So last time we left you we had just arrived safe and well in Bangkok. We stayed there for a while meandering up and down and up and down Khao San Rd a million times shopping for hippie gear by day drinking from buckets by night. One very bucket fuelled night I must admit I ended up at a ping pong show while Louise innocently slept http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-248150.html Hello from ThailandOn our last night in Hong Kong which was also Chinese New Yearwe decided to check out the fabled Ladies Night on which if stories were to be believed ladies could enjoy a whole night of drinking without spending a single Hong Kong dollar. We ate first on a rooftop vegetarian restaurant in a theatre on Hong Kong isand and then headed out for a night in the sleazy end of tow http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-244408.html Hello from Hong Kong Louise and Amy here. We're sorry we haven't updated in a while have been in transit. We stayed in Yangshuo for about 9 or so days due to cheapiness which turned out to be a bit too long. The weather which we're sure you've all heard about was rubbish. We didn't see any of the massive snow storms but we got ALL the rain and the blackouts. These weren't terrible chin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-243119.html Hey ho Amy here. So where did Louise leave it I had the lurgies and spent the day in bed. Well I managed to get myself up and about the following day to visit some beautiful Chinese gardens where according to the signs each view provokes some wistful thought or tranquil feeling. I think it must have worked because Louise was so relaxed she left her wallet in a tea room. But the honest Chinese http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Yangshuo/blog-239866.html sorry for spelling mistakes its coldHello It's a tad warmer today so I'm free to write up about our last few days in Beijing...We got up at 6 for our Great Wall trek it was a big group about 16 or so. It took about three hours in a bus to drive a herd of groggy travellers to the great wall in the freezing cold no snow but cold enough to make everything pretty much totally numb. The initia http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-238632.html Hi just a quick note to say we left Beijing last night on a soft sleeper express and arrived in Shanghai this morning. The hostel we're staying in Mingland or Mingtowers or something the internet is all outside which I can see would be quite nice in the scorching summers but right now it's freezing my little typing fingers so I'll have to write up about ur last lovely days in Beijing another t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-238260.html ..is the only Chinese we know. thank youHelloJust a quick one to let everyone know we've arrived in China safely. After a few initial problems involving vanishing buses garbled phone calls a subway some well meaning yet incomprehensible locals and several big long treks along the same massive road losing our hostel address etc. etc. we found our lovely hostel and have had our first chinese m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-236659.html HelloThis is our travel diary thing which we hope is an easy and inclusive way to let everyone know we're not dead yet etc. hopefully it won't just be me whittering away and you'll be treated to some entries penned by Amy too.We leave tomorrow from Heathrow at about 1 or 2 and should get into Beijing at 7am Thursday Beijing time. Let's hope the jet lag stays in its box and we can have a ni http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-236171.html