http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Quatschtante/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Quatschtante en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:32:53 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:32:53 +0000 Hello everybodyOK... one very last blog and then you'll have to find something else to do with your lives other than read my blogs... hehe just joking I think it's lovely that so many of you have been interested in following my travels and reading through my lengthy blogs all this time o Ive been home nearly a week now and Im still not sure that it has actually sunk in that I'm home for good http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fleet/blog-394614.html HelloWell.... I was planning on writing a really long blog what a surprise about the past 10 and a half months the highslows etc. but its nearly midnight and I have to be up in 5 hours and I'm just too tired So I think I'm going to postpone it until I get home oBut basically.... I have had an amazing time travelling and I know I've been really really lucky to have been able to come aw http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-392739.html HeyhoThe last few days in Bangkok have been quite chilled.... just did a bit of shopping at the HUGE weekend market.... i gave up after 3 hours because it was too hot but I probably didnt even see a tenth of it sightseeing went to the palace the reclining Buddha and a few temples I have to admit that I'm quite fed up of sightseeing now so I had to really motivate myself to go instead of http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-392683.html HelloI could either get the bus back to Bangkok from Phuket or Krabi so I decided to get the boat to Krabi as I'd already been to Phuket and had heard Krabi is really niceThe hostel I wanted to stay in was full so ended up on my own in a guesthouse but luckily I met 2 English girls on the boat to the beach the next day and spend the day with them which was nice The beach was really beautiful http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Krabi/blog-392681.html HolaI really really loved Koh Phi Phi... it is such a beautiful island The only thing I didn't like so much was the fact that it was really touristy so really expensive o I stupidly ended up paying way too much for a room by giving into to the guys selling accommodation to everyone getting off the boat I later walked past the only hostel on the island and saw that a room was a third of th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi/blog-392674.html HelloGoing to whiz though these last blogs because have a million things left to do before my flight first thing tomorrow morningGrace and I got the overnight bus down to Bangkok and watched Pretty Woman on her laptop which was really cool... until the DVD broke half way through maybe that's why it only cost 1 We arrived in Bangkok at about 6am so I decided to get a bus straight down Sout http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-392671.html Hello againI came to Pai 2 days ago with Grace the NZ girl I met in Chiang Mai and her Canadian friend Rich and despite only having been her 2 days and we are leaving in a few hours we absolutely love it here It's a really cute little town in the countryside and everyone is really friendlyThe Thai New Year is approaching with is always celebrated with a water festival so we have spent mos http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Pai/blog-389820.html HelloI spent about 6 days in Changmai and really liked it especially after I changed hostels I spent the first few nights in a really horrible hostel where they were no other travellers because the popular hostel was constantly full I didn't really do much those first few days apart from wander around read catch up with emails and went to the dentist I was a bit homesick and lonely so even http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-389815.html HelloWe finally arrived in Pakse after a very bumpy and distressing ride from Khong Island we ran over a dog.... Michi wouldn't tell me what we had run over for about half an hour because he knew I would be upset he was right but it was a dog poor thing and checked into a notsogreat hostel and then went out for lunch After lunch we saw that there were direct buses to Bangkok apart fr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/South/Bolaven-Plateau/blog-387266.html HelloAfter finally making it to the Laos border we headed for Khong Island one of the 4000 islands in the South of Laos via bus and boat arriving midafternoon to find that there was currently no electricity on the island so our room was almost unbearable in the heat without a fan or air conditioning Unfortunately Michi was ill that daynight so we didn't really do much although the next http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/South/Khong-Island/blog-387265.html HelloI really am dying of hunger now so I'm going to make these last few blogs really really quick onesBanlung was fun but in hindsight maybe not quite worth the number of days it took out of our travelling time with getting there and back The town and market was fun to wander around although we were practically red after each visit into town because of the layer of red dustdirt which coats http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/East/Banlung/blog-387264.html HeyloWe had a great time in Phnom Penh the capital of Cambodia..... we were really lucky with our hostel and had a really lovely room with a view of Phnom Penh did lots of sightseeing although it was really hard work in the heat and we really liked the city We spent lots of time wandering around the crazy crazy markets trying out lots of different foods not always very successfully and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-387260.html HelloOK... I'm now in Changmai and am determined to get up to date with my blogs before I go for lunch and I'm starving so I'm going to make it quick oKampot didn't really turn out as planned we wanted to rent mopeds and drive to the National Park to do some trekking but it was closed o We asked quite a few people just to double check but a lot of people in Asia tell porkie pies about t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Kampot/blog-387259.html HelloThe next day was another early start as we had to get the 6am bus to Sihanoukville on the South coast of Cambodia We had paid extra for an apparently nicer bus but I dont think there was any difference to be honest I think we just got ripped off Or maybe I'm just spoilt after the amazing buses in South America o It was a very very bumpy ride there and going to the onboard toilet was http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-387257.html Hello again We managed to find a really cool hostel in Siem Reap run by a Swiss guy who knew everything there was to know about seeing the temples.... whenhow etc. which was really helpful although it meant that we had we had some very hardcore sightseeing days ahead of us with much earlier starts than we usually would have managed oOn the first day most of the temples were quite close so http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-387245.html HelloI'm going to carry on with the trend well... intention of keeping my blog entries a bit shorter because I'm sooooo behind again and rushed for time as usualMy flight to Bangkok was OK despite a very boring wait in Kuala Lumpur and getting smacked in the jaw by a huge hard violin case o Michi who had arrived in Bangkok earlier that day picked me up from the airport and we went back http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-384393.html HelloOK... and now to the beautiful beasts I'm going to try and condense this somewhat because there are so many funny stories but i will be sat here forever if i try and tell them all so i will just generally write about my time there and then tell you the details in person oThings didn't get off to the best start and i was really worried that i had made the trip for nothing when i was tol http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Sepilok-Orang-Utan-Sanctuary/blog-382825.html Just very quickly for KL because I only spent one night there.... we got there midafternoon after a nice bus ride and checked into a very cheap hostel... and checked out an hour later because it was so disgusting and we were scared about bedbugs We found a much nicer hostel and checked in there before going out for dinner looking around a huge chaotic market where I had to buy trainers as I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-382812.html HelloOK... finally on to South Asia o I arrived in Singapore in the evening and got a taxi to the hostel the taxi driver was really lovely and chatted to me the whole way giving me lots of advice and tips about Singapore as well as a general history lesson I had been told that the people in Singapore are unbelievably friendly and welcoming and it was trueUnfortunately the hostel only h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Little-India/blog-382809.html HelloThere is a lot of nagging going on about putting up my orangutan pictures im sure its quite obvious who that certain someone is hehe so im just going to quickly race through Cairns and Singapore so I can get to the orangutansWe spent about 4 days in Cairns which was really fun it was very relaxed and we spent most of our time at the lovely pool at the hostel or at the salt water lagoo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/Cairns-City/blog-382806.html