http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/denidax/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from denidax en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:59:38 +0000 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:59:38 +0000 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 an http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Chemnitz/blog-376664.html The best places1. 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 places1. Kuta beach Bali Indonesia dirty noisy and full o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-335308.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Semporna/blog-367488.html 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 everyw http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-362692.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-361425.html 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 amo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/blog-359491.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Railay/blog-359475.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Tao/blog-357757.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Chinatown/blog-355568.html 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 w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-353268.html We landed in Bali once the favorite destination of honeymooners but got really affected by the 2002 bombings...But like the Phoenix it is growing once again and it's becoming a popular backpacking place in fact it has recovered so well that many places that Dax visited in 2004 and were then free are now asking for a generous amount as entrance fee...Not only that but you can take 3 steps w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Lombok/Gili-Air/blog-346429.html I feel shame and sadness in equal parts when I admit that this will be the 1st and only cycling blog of our trip...I was so looking forward to cycle the world... reading other cyclists' blogs I made a romantic and naive idea of live on the road... but experience has taught me that I am not as strong... maybe it was the heat maybe the spiders maybe the noises at night but after 200 kms I had t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-345776.html After a 30 days in New Zealand our budget has been severely damaged and most probably and unfortunately we won't be making it back to Europe the way we first thought in fact we'll be happy if we actually make it to Beijin. No one is to blame except the travel bug inside our bellies that urges us to see it all... now we really have to rethink our initial plan and make decisions about where t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-283997.html fotos http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-342713.html I have never consider myself cool but when we were on the glacier there was a couple who didn't stop talking and they said they were on their honeymoon... the questions started straight away where are you from he's from Israel and she's German where do you live in England are you learning each other's language yes but it takes time and it's difficult where did you get married http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-341744.html and that's just what they doWe spent our last days in the North Island driving many hours a day to make it to Wellington with a day to spare there before getting the ferry back to the South Island.The last 2 nights we spent in windy black sanded beaches 1st at Turakinae Head where a bunch of night fishermen spooked us big time and the 2nd at Sinclair Head where according to the map there wa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fox-Glacier/blog-339843.html After a few days sleeping in the van... well we needed a shower and do some laundry as I was quickly running out of knickers so we drove to Rotorua where we enjoyed a night in a backpackers and a walk in one of the thermal parks... very hot and very smelly...The best the colors of the waterThe worse the smellHuevos podridosDespues de varios dias durmiendo en la furgoneta... la verdad es que http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-338146.html A few days ago we stopped on a bay to spend the night we locked the bikes to a tree and went for a walk when we came back there was another van next to ours and we thought we'll have company tonight when I got there this guy started talking in German to me asking me if I was from Chemnitz so I told him I'm not but Dax is and how the hell did they know well they saw the bikes from t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/Paihia/blog-337871.html Imagine I carry with me a giant pin everywhere I go and since I'm in Christchurch I'm going to try and cross the Earth with it...let's see let's see...we're in Mondonhedo...yes Ladies and Gentlemen...we can't get any further New Zealand is on the other side of the planet Spanish perspective of course and Christchurch on the other side of Mondonhedo from there to Ferrol a stone's th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-255751.html I'll let the pictures do the talk...The best share this special moment with DaxThe worse family and friends couldn't be hereEn el lugar adecuado en el momento adecuadoUna imagen vale mas que mil palabras...Lo mejor Compartir este momento especial con DaxLo peor Familia y amigos no pudieron compartirlo con nosotros http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Cook-Islands/Aitutaki/blog-332050.html