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Deni and Dax's world // El mundo de Deni y Dax

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Where we are from / de donde venimos

next destination / proximo destino

Where we live / donde vivimos

Where we have been / donde hemos estado

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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving". A. Einstein

We are globetrotters, travelers or an acute case of itchy feet...whatever you prefer...

2008: Austria and the North of Spain and then, we left the rat race to get married in paradise (Aitutaki, Cook Islands) and have a long honeymoon, starting in September.

2009: Taking it easy, recovering from the previous trips and saving for the next one.

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"La vida es como montar en bicicleta. Para mantener el equilibrio debes seguir moviendote." A. Einstein

Somos trotamundos, viajeros o culos inquietos...lo que tu prefieras...

2008: Austria y el norte de Espana antes de escaparnos de la rutina para casarnos en el paraiso (Aitutaki, Islas Cook) y tener una larga luna de miel, empezando en Septiembre.

2009: Relajandonos, recuperandonos del viaje anterior y ahorrando para el siguiente.

2008
January 1st 2008 -» September 13th 2008 our 1st "around the World" trip -- nuestro 1er viaje "alrededor del Mundo"
September 14th 2008 -» February 1st 2009

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By denidax
February 25th 2009

Sprechen Sie Deutch?... Come again?!! Europe » Germany » Saxony » Chemnitz

Calais

After 2 hours of driving, we arrived, hungry and sleepy to the Ferry Terminal in Dover, just to hear the most feared sentence by all travelers: "you are not on the list". What??... I did the booking myself, we must be there... A little run through the city to find internet connection and a check of the emails later, we went back to the terminal, a bit embarrassed to admit that I made a mistake and I had booked the route the other way around, so we were supposed to come from France today and leave the Uk in a week's [View Full Entry]

By denidax
February 1st 2009

Want to see the world?... Look, it's just under your feet Europe » Spain

USA

The best places 1. Aitutaki, Cook Islands, a tropical paradise. 2. Pulau Sipadan, Sabah, Malaysia, pretty on land, amazing under water. 3. Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia, cristal clear water, mango juice and friendly locals. 4. Singapore, clean and organised. 5. Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand, few people, lots of dolphins. The worse places 1. Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia, dirty, noisy and full of drunk tourists. 2. Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, full of rats and rubbish, and I got bed bugs. The b [View Full Entry]

By denidax
January 27th 2009

I'll point out the first 6 turtles, after that, I won't do it any more... Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Semporna

us underwater

We have arrived to our last destination... after this, it will be back to Singapore to catch the plane back to Europe... Sabah is humid; we arrived in Sandakan during the rainy season... and it rains; and when it doesn't, the humidity is so high that it feels as if it's raining. But people here are very friendly and seem really interested in you as a person and not a wallet. We didn't want to get a taxi from the airport to town, so we started walking: many people were greeting us on the road and the bus driver charged us [View Full Entry]

By denidax
January 12th 2009

You buy I give you peace and quiet Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap

Siem Reap

Rumor has it that certain airline is paying big cash to the Cambodian government so they won't make the road from the Thai border to Siem Reap, let's say, driveable... It takes less that 4 hours to drive from Bangkok to the border, but 6 to cover the 162 kms from the border to Siam Reap... the road is... well, it's not a road, just a dirt track with some tarmac at some places... Dust is just everywhere, and the houses next to the road are covered in a red layer of earth... I wonder how people can live there... some [View Full Entry]

By denidax
January 8th 2009

Smoke and curries Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Bangkok

When, after scratching my legs, my nails were black, I realised I spent 4 days without a shower... I didn't care, I thought that, maybe this way people will give me some personal space... when I saw it wasn't working, I made contact with the water... After 16 days with Aimar, he went back to England leaving us totally addicted to soy milk; in a way I was jelaous: he'll see family and friends, sleep in his bed and eat his favourite foods... but I guess he'll miss pad thais... It won't be long before we meet with him, once again, [View Full Entry]

By denidax
January 4th 2009

Me 5 Bath... you shut up!! Asia » Burma

Myanmar

Until recently in Thailand you could get a 30 days visa in arrival... now you get 15 days if you come overland and 30 if you fly in... Aimar's visa was expiring on the 29th and ours a few days later so we all went to Ranong to cross to Myanmar, a country that I never thought I will visit... There are lots of agencies that arrange day trips to the border and back which are comfortable and popular among the tourists... but they are bloody expensive so we did it our way and we arrive to the caotic on a [View Full Entry]

By denidax
January 3rd 2009

and New Year's!!! Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Railay

on the way / en el camino

To follow the tradition of getting sick in Ko Tao, the trip back to Chumpon was (nearly) as bad as the 1st one; people would come out of the catamaran while we were waiting to get in, saying things like "what a trip" or, "you don't know what's waiting for you" and, to follow my tradition I started crying; I knew I wasn't going to make it better that way but I had such a hard time on the way there that I didn't want to go through that again. But we couldn't go back and we boarded the boar with [View Full Entry]

By denidax
December 28th 2008

It's Christmas, you know? Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Ko Tao

he made us walk a lot!!!! / nos hizo andar un monton!!!

I have got sick twice traveling by boat. I never enjoy the feeling of being at sea (sorry Dad!!), but of all the times I have been on a boat (and in the last 3 months have been a lot!!), I have been sick twice... and both have been in Ko Tao. I came here the 1st time 3 years ago to make my Open Water course and, on my 1st day at sea I got sick and puked my breakfast... but the fishes were grateful and, even though I didn;t get in the water that day, I saw lots of [View Full Entry]

beer drinking gecko / gecko bebiendo cerveza

By denidax
December 19th 2008

Shopping land Asia » Singapore » Chinatown

he finally shaved his beard / por fin se afeito la barba

After a month in Indonesia, Singapore was a paradise of organization and cleaningness... we spent 2 days there moving from shopping centre to shopping centre and not buying anything... Chinatown was great and the food tasty and cheap... Little India was spicy in many ways, it is the only place of the country (city?) where the rule of "no loitering" doesn't apply... Organization comes at a price and, in Singapore, everything is forbidden: no smoking, no loitering, no patronizing, no feeding the pigeons, not leaving the toilet without flushing, no cycling in bridges... or you'll get a fine [View Full Entry]

and this is the result / y este es el resultado

By denidax
December 11th 2008

Bless all the rickshaw drivers Asia » Indonesia » Java » Yogyakarta

the seats on the bus / los asientos del bus

When you leave the tourist comfort zone, people seem more interested in you than your money... So we arrived, after 3 hours of the most interesting bus trip of my life, to Gilimanuk, where we took the ferry to Java; of about 200 people there, we were 4 tourists and we ended up together in Banyuwangi train station and that's how we met Suzette and Lars with whom we spent the next 5 days... After we were informed (half hand language, half pidgin English) that the next train to Yogyakarta won't be leaving until the next morning (and it was only [View Full Entry]