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We are visiting all these places within 12 months. World here we come!!
Uk-Turkey-Jordan-Overland-Egypt-Tanzania-India-overland Nepal-Hong Kong-China-Mongolia-Vietnam-Cambodia-Thailand-Sydney-New Zealand-Cook Islands-LA-Alaska-overland-Costa Rica-Miami-Peru-Brazil


Well we went away at Xmas 2006 for 6 weeks and went to New Zealand, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Sydney. We now have the travel bug so are hoping to go away early 2008. Where and How long for are unknown, but anywhere and everywhere we can afford.

3rd March 2008: start in Turkey for a week to visit Jess’ friend Rebecca. Then we are flying back to London (due to ticket restrictions)
Depart London for Amman on the 11th March 08, going to Petra, Dead Sea, Wadi Rum then catching the Catamaran to Egypt, couple of buses and boats, and pyramids later we fly out of Cairo on the 26th March 08 to Tanzania for a safari around the Serengeti and the Ngoragora crater, and a few days in Zanzibar departing Dar Es Salam 16th April 08

Next stop Bombay and travelling overland to the Taj Mahal in Agra . Afterwards we’ll travel overland to Nepal where we are going to spend about a month, hopefully doing a trek in the Annapurna region, white water rafting, and a elephant trek in the Bardia National Park. From there we fly to Hong Kong (just to apply for visas) so we can get into China. We are going to spending a few days in Beijing then from there getting the train to Mongolia and spending about 2 weeks.
After Mongolia we are heading back to China to visit the Great Wall, Terracotta Army, Forbidden City etc. We are then going to catch a train that travels through China, Vietnam and Cambodia, stopping along the way. Our flight departs from Bangkok around the 5th August 08.

Next stop is Sydney for a few days.

Then paradise.... We are spending 10 days in Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Need I say more!!?!?!

Then we fly to LA for a couple of days (stop over), then onward to Alaska where we will be purchasing a camper van to drive through Canada , USA, Mexico and into Central America where we will be for Xmas and new year.
Hoping to see Bears fishing for Salmon, visit Vancouver. Going to see Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge, LA for Hollywood. Travel through Mexico, then Belize, Tropical beaches, diving in reefs, volcanoes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Flying out of Panama City. Phew!!!

From there we have to fly via Miami (CSI Cheese here we come) where we are spending a couple of days. Then we are flying to Peru to visit Macchu Piccu where we will hopefully be meeting some friends and Family for the Inca Trail trek.

Our final destination being Brazil, for Iguzzau Falls and Rio De Janeiro for Mardi Gras.



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By RichJess
April 22nd 2008

Tanzania & Zanzibar

 Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha
We arrived in the capital, Dar Es Salaam ad stayed a couple of nights in a real cheapy guesthouse (with no mosquito nets) mainly to get over our jet lag. Having come from Egypt with all the associated hassle we were both surprised an amused by the level of 'hassle' in Dar Es Salaam. There would be guys laying on top of their car in the sunshine and when you walked nearby they'd ask 'taxi' and if we declined they would casually put their head back on their bonnet and carry on snoozing. After getting our bearings in Dar Es Salaam [View Full Entry]

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Our jeep
The Hippo Pool
Wildebeest Migrating

We got the boat from Jordan into Nuweiba (which was late as usual) and arrived in Egypt at around 10pm. We then took a long bus ride which dumped us a few kilometers from our destination, Sharm El Sheikh because they weren't licensed to take us into town. Luckily, the guy that was with us was Jordanian and could speak Arabic and helped us get a taxi in the middle of nowhere. We got the taxi to a hotel we had heard of that turned out to be fully booked. And to add insult to injury we then spent the next [View Full Entry]

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Temples of Karnak
Asda
Banana flower

Dead Sea
Dead Sea
Rich and some others floating
Jordan was fantastic. The people are lovely, very friendly and most of them just want to speak to you without any desire to sell you useless tat. The first night was spent at the airport hotel as we arrived really late on in the evening. The next day we headed for the Dead Sea and went for a swim which was great. With the salt content at around 30% it's true what people say about bring impossible to sink - it needs to be experienced to really appreciate it. After The Dead Sea we headed for Petra for 2 nights. We [View Full Entry]

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Classic Petra shot
Petra
The Monastery

By RichJess
March 11th 2008

Turkey - Bodrum

 Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Bodrum
Becca's view
Becca's view
View From Becca's House
Hi All. Taken a while to get the blog up and running as we've needed decent internet connections to put any pictures up. We spent about 7 days in Turkey, flew into Dalaman, long bus ride to Bodrum to see Becca. We stayed at her lovely house with amazing views. She was our guided tour for the week, and helped us with our Turkish. We also hired a scooter for a couple of days and cruised around Bodrum. Weather was great, warmer and less windy than it had been in the UK ! Not a great deal to report but it's [View Full Entry]

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Place where we had lunch