http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Moira--s-Asia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Moira s Asia en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:50:42 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:50:42 +0000 Well here we are with only four days left.... We are currently in Cebu City in the Philippines.. but this isn't going to be a long post just yet. Just a short one with some of our culinary adventures and weird things that we've encountered. In a few days I'll post a looonnnnnnnnnng and final post to tell everyone about the last let of the trip Here we go.. lets start off with just some odd observ http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Cebu-City/blog-412429.html Hello.. Sawadeeka.... Jumping right in... Well things have certainly calmed down quite a bit I guess Thailand is good for that. But first I'll recap our journey in India. From Kolkata we headed to South India. Our tickets were to fly into Bangalore which I apparently made some serious calculation errors about because Bangalore happens to be no where near Kerala. Instead of taking a 17 hour trai http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-406083.html Sorry for the long delay..............Well i guess i'll start off with our rafting trip that was quite a while ago at this point. We booked a 4 day trip for 2 days of rafting and 2 days of canyoning. The trip began straight off of our 3 hour bus ride out of Kathmandu. The buses drove down a very bumpy road nearby some sort of metal factory I thought they were lost but this was actually the star http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-400549.html Namaste. This will be a two part entry.... Part 1 Happy Darjeeling.. Well our last day in Darjeeling turned out to be quite pleasant. In the morning we tried to go to a place called Lloyd Botanical Gardens which was really just a park with some plants. We decided to take it easy for the rest of the day. In the late afternoon I looked out the window and saw that the foothills were visible so http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-397021.html Hello From India.... Im not sure where I left off... Our arrival in India was rough to stay the least. For the second time my first day in India made me cry. We flew from Kunming to Kolkata on Sunday night our flights were given to us we didn't have the choice of what time to arrive. Arriving to Kolkata at midnight is a really bad idea as a tourist so don't anyone try it. We visited three di http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/West-Bengal/Darjeeling/blog-395410.html Well.. things seem to be progressing more smoothly these days. For the most part. After we arrived in Xi'an... on Sunday.. after rolling out the last few bank troubles we headed to the Muslim quarter of the city. I'm not going to lie I haven't been enjoying Chinese food ALL that much so far... but Chinese Muslims are a different story. The Muslim Quarter has a lot of character. The streets are li http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Kunming/blog-393527.html Well it appears that many days have passed since I wrote last. The last .. well.... 3 days have been slightly nuts... not so much in a good way. Although most of our crappy days have been made up for with some pretty awesome experiences. I guess I'll start from where I left off... Thursday... the last normal day we had was pretty wonderful. We were a little bit tired from sightseeing so we deci http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Xi-an/blog-391937.html Hello again Well i definitely don't feel like writing right now but i don't think I will feel like it tomorrow either.. So here it goes Today Jake and I somehow woke up at 530am again. We had a lovely cup of tea in the lobby and waited for Megan to get ready. We are trying to figure out the Tibet situation because its a little bit difficult at the moment and by difficult I mean twice as exp http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-390968.html Hello All So this will be the first of hopefully many posts along our 11 week journey through Asia After 24 hours of traveling we arrived in Beijing and had to wait in a 30 minute line for a taxi at the airport. The taxi driver of course didn't have the slightest clue where our hostel was and ended up driving around in circles talking on his cell phone for an extra 20 minutes. But alas we a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-390527.html