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Starting in late 2008 flying over to China to begin a 6 week intensive language course at the Shanghai International University. After the course planing on having one week in China to see some of the sights I didn't get to see my first time over in China and then heading down to Thailand.
In Thailand meeting up with my friend Katrina and we have planed to travel up to Northern Thailand, back down to central Thailand and then beach hoping around southern Thailand. After that for about 2 weeks, heading down into Malaysia for a week and then finally flying back to Australia from Singapore.
Counting down till the adventure begins!

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By NicholasFindley
July 19th 2009

Kyoto, Nara & Osaka Asia » Japan » Kyoto

Palace Garden

After the bus drive we arrived in Kyoto and just from getting off the bus it seemed a lot more chillaxed and nicer then Tokyo. We went straight to the backpackers and crashed because we hadn't sleeped. And it was a nice place and much cleaner then the last place. The next day we just simply went around town and looked at all the different temples. One of them was amazing and huge, it was a castle I believe. The next day I met up with Kido (I was an hour late) and we rode to the bamboo forests, well actually [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
July 7th 2009

Japan - Tokyo to Kyoto Asia » Japan » Tokyo » Asakusa

The busiest Inter-section

After a long stop over in Malaysia, me and my family arrived in Tokyo. Instead of having a 21st birthday present or party (I ended up having a house party anyways) we decided to go on a holiday to Japan. I choose Japan mainly because 1) It was an expensive country to travel around and I could do it with my parents and wouldnt have to worry about money 2) Well that's really it. When we got there we went to this horrible crummy hostel and unpacked and explored but were too jet lagged to do anything really. The next morning [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
February 4th 2009

Rushing through Cambodia Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh

Cambodian Museum

After experiencing heaps of horrid bus drives in Laos we decided to cheat and get a flight from Laos to Phenom. Yes I know it was expensive, but sanity was really important at this point for us. We arrived in the capital and were inidated with people trying to take us to their hotel. We ended up going to one in the centre of town, where we met good our great tuk tuk diver Mr. something. He was a character and a half. We decided to get as much out of the day. We started off at the capital museum, which [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
January 31st 2009

Laos Asia » Laos » West » Vang Vieng

Night market

After a horrible and I mean horrible bus drive from the Laos boarder to LP we arrived at 4am and crashed. The worst bus drive I have ever been on in my life! Never ever doing that again. Anyways, the place we arrived to was amazing though. It was peaceful, quietish and really nice. The food was the highlight, shakes, bagguttes and everything French. The night market at LP was really really good, it had alot of interesting things and it was extremly long. I didn't realise exactly how long it was until we started walking down it. It had heaps [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
January 16th 2009

Bangkok - Chaing Mai Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

Floating Markets

After the adventure and a half to get to Bangkok, I arrived at 2am in the morning. Basically too tired to wait around for the bus or the morning, so I got a taxi to Koh San and got a dodgy looking hostel for the night but I was in much need for sleep. I spent the first day wondering around the markets waiting for Katrina and Ange to make it to Bangkok that night. When I checked my e-mail I found out that Ange didn't make the flight, so me and Katrina had to wait 2 extra days for her [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
January 10th 2009

Shanghai, Nanjing & Anhui Asia » China » Anhui » Huangshan

Anhui old town

After we finished the 6 week course in China and said goodbye to everyone, I still had a week in China before I had to fly down to. So a bunch of us being Monica, Max, Jeike, Matty and Sam headed to the moutain region of Anhui. I have never in my life been so cold, it was beyond a joke. Never going back to China in the winter. I always thought I was a winter person but clearly I was not. The hostel we stayed in was the 'Youth hostel' and it was really nice, empty but good. We walked [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
August 16th 2008

Thailand with Aimee Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Golden Buddha

After returning home from living in China for one year and completed the first year of University, it was time to go back to China with a Uni program. But had to go via Thailand with Aimee as it was the cheapest option. We arrived in Bangkok and basically went straight to Koh San Road where we stayed in a really nice place compared to the rest of the places at a reasonable price. Bangkok was in shut down for the week, because the King's sister died 16 months ago and the funeral finally was able to take place. This meant [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
October 30th 2007

Waterfalls, Caves and Food Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

The waterfalls!
Huge

The school decided to let us off with a week! A whole week to not teach and also to give us some spending money, so wasn't going to pass off this opputunity to get out of the province. Felt like Yunnan was getting too small for me in relation to traveling. So I looked up on the good old c-trip for cheap flights and one of the cheapest was to Guiyang which I had never heard about and there was barely any information in the lonely planet book, but it seemed like the best idea so decided to take full advantage [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
September 27th 2007

Chengdu Take 2 Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

Sichuan Opera
Singing

So now it is the 2nd time to go to Chengdu but this time it was with different people and later in the year. Our schools had a 1 week holiday so we all took advantage of the cheap flights and went to the city, which left me with the chance to re-visit the things I didn't get to the first time. Day 1 We arrived late the previous day and planed for our first day to visit the giant Buddah, which had be carved into the side of a mountain cliff. The pictures looked amazing and the place lived up [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
September 18th 2007

Xishuangbanna Asia » China » Yunnan » Jinghong

Temple at Xishuangbanna
Manting Lu Park

Basically over the whole year I went to Xishuangbanna so many times because it was the closet place for tourist to Simao and it had great things to see. So I thought instead of writing about it each time I would just make on entry with all the occassions. 1st time The first trip to Xishuangbanna was with Jayne and Amy as we went to the water spashing festival along the river banks of the Mekong Delta. It wouldn't stop raining the whole time we were there which was annoying but we still managed to eat and eat and have a [View Full Entry]

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