http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/donoonod/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from donoonod en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:13:51 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:13:51 +0000 Arrived at Kuta Townhouse around 1ish after a little of a nightmare for the driver trying to navigate the gang between the two poppies Irsquom not 100 sure hersquod been down there before either as he is from Sanur.First impressions for me of the Townhouses......all I could think of what are all the rave reviews about This was not really what I was expecting. Looking out from the reception http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-454323.html Its holiday time once again for me Irsquom off to Bali for 7 days with Lisa Jenny Jennyrsquos sister Christine. We got really cheap fares to Bali with Air Asia when they first started flying from Perth to Denpasar. As this is my 3rd holiday this year the girls agreed to go lsquobudgetrsquo so after lots of searching on the Internet I came up with the Tegal Sari in Ubud and the Kuta T http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Ubud/blog-454141.html Whilst in Hoi An poor old Issy was never all that well. Her toe that she injured on the slide at the Mekong hurt when she had to walk so she had a bandaid on that and I was still putting detol on it each evening. Couldnt wear closed in shoes so had to wear Sam's trendy bright green hairy thongs and generally was a little on the whingy side. We had a dreadful flight from Danang Hoi an to Ha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-423077.html Hoi An is still one of my favorite spots in Vietnam. The town is rustic and very quiet compared to other citys. They don't allow cars in the main area of town and there are only a few motorbikes. Lots of nice restaurants food reasonably cheap beer cold and we found the best lime juice of our holidayThe kids all had some clothes made we went back to the tailor To To they made Sam's shorts fr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Hoi-An/blog-423055.html Jason our tour guide picked us up on time and was the same driver as last year in the van. Unfortunately it is abit on the squishy side and hot in the van with the 12 of us and our luggage and Jason and the driver they have the best spots Didnt take long to leave the city and our first stop was Cai Dao temple. Its a multi religion budhism hindu catholic taoist confusiousism and I think http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/Can-Tho/blog-423051.html Found out this morning that Phil has passed all his exams 7 and four with distinctions. So very proud of him That light at the end of that tunnel is getting closer....I can just about touch it Today is a walking tour of Saigon. Len has the squirts so he is not joining us he needs to be close to a toilet The plan is to head down to the river walk along the river and back towards the reunif http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-417570.html Well it was an awful long wait at Siem Reap airport even if it was business class lounge We were the only ones in the lounge. Forgot to tell you about a incident that happened on our last day in Siem Reap so very quickly before we get onto Vietnam I'll quickly tell you about it. During lunch on our last day a young girl probably about 10yrs tried her best to sell us some bracelets but we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-417417.html We decided to hire tuk tuks and go out to the tonle sap Lake to see the floating fishing village the silk farm and the cambodian landmine museum.Well I didnt do my homework very good this time because I had no idea how far it was from one place to the other. We must have done over a 100km during the day. Phil was whinging big time how square his arse was Being the good haggler that I am I b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-416013.html I finished off the last blog with it bucketing down. Continued to do so for the rest of the afternoon. So we had a chilling out afternoon. Len and Glenda went down the road just before the rain started to get our washing was only 300m away. On the way back they got caught for over a hour as the rain was that heavy. Some nice man invited them into his shop to wait it out. The food we've been eati http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-415999.html Left Phnom Penh early yesterday morning after a little drama from Glenda. She couldnt get her safe to open the evening before and reception had promised to have someone there at 6.30am to open it for her as we being picked up at 6.45am to catch the bus. Well at about 6.46am someone does arrive to open it but after our transport that is waiting for us with a van load of people Bus leaves the st http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-415049.html Arrived from KL a little late due to some person not boarding the plane though his luggage did So by the time they took it off we were over half hour late leaving. Musical chairs on Air Asia was a laugh nobody except the westerners staying in their correct seats I think Even though we given seat numbers and asked by the stewardess a number of times to stay in correct seatingVOA was a little ni http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-414383.html Left home at 3.30am ...... long day Plane left on time Glenda and Kyle sitting next to the lady from hell Issy had her usual chuck about 1.5 hours out of landing. Was a little rough at times. Arrived into KL on time long que to get through immigration unfortunately we went into the wrong line Very slow. Advantage of long time in immigration is bags waiting for us on carousel and loaded them http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-412670.html Just getting this blog up and running to see how it works. Only 10 sleeps to go http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-408984.html