http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/francoisbeaussier/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from francoisbeaussier en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:43:13 +0000 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:43:13 +0000 Arriving to Hong kong Island by bicyble was a bit of a challenge. Everybody told me to take the metro but I got refused entry because bikes are not allowed inside. I decided to go by road and asked a police officer that told me it was way too far he said 60km and that anyway bikes were not allowed in the tunnel...I cycled to the next station wondering what to do. I tried to get in the metro aga http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-383025.html The last 80 kilometers in Laos were quite hard so it's a tired Francois that arrived at the border crossing. Officers were surprised to see someone on a bicycle and they were quite curious. At some point one of them even asked me quite formally to step a few meters away from my bike. I started to wonder what it was all about when in fact he jumped on it and did a few meters just to try it Anot http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-381577.html I was not sure what to expect when arriving to Laos. Would it be very different from Thailand I crossed the Friendship bridge Laos in at the north Thailand south which links the 2 countries in the afternoon and headed to Vientiane the capital city about 25 km away. My first experience was that there was no road sign you just have to know where to go or in my case ask the locals and trust y http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/blog-381547.html After cycling about 100km I arrived in the town of Ban Pho. It looked quite big and I asked a few local where the nearest guesthousehotel was. A few drinks later white whisky similar to tequila I said goodbye sawa dee krap and headed straight then right and then left or was it right I was in a small street about 6pm and desperately in need of a shower when a few people shouted in English http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-East-Thailand/blog-379310.html Random photos I took while cycling around in Thailand. It's a nice way to travel since you have a lot of freedom. You'd like to stop and take a picture no worries take a few http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-379393.html More photos of my stay in the Thai familly I have also added them on flickr since the quality on this site is not always good.httpwww.flickr.comphotosfrancoisbeaussiersets72157614674910196I'm back on the road and did 100km today yeah http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Eastern-Thailand/blog-378139.html I have been living with a Thai familly for 4 days I was looking for a hotel and they invited me to stay at their home. It's been great Everybody's so nice and the kids are great Going back on the road tomorrow p http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Lopburi/blog-377671.html Hi everyone my name is T39 and I was born in China. My life has been quite boring so far and I've spent most of my time in a shop in Bangkok. My dream was to explore the world but I could only look at Lumphini park across the street...This was my life until last week but then I got bought by a French guy And I'm told he wants to cycle with me until hongkok I can't wait Salut moi c'est T39 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-377642.html Tonight I went to see some some thai boxing. I took the boat to go all the way to Kaoh San and walked to the stadium from there.Prices for the tickets were 100015002000 bahts 5075100 AUD or 253350 Euros. I had no idea so I took the cheapest. I ended up behind a fence and I think it's worth paying 1500 to get on the other side.There are 10 matchs in an evening starting a 630. The best one http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-375108.html english version at the bottomIl m'a fallu quelques minutes pour comprendre et memoriser les noms de mes 4 guides pour la journee Aymeric m'a mis en contact avec Aey une thailandaise qu'il avait rencontre il y a quelque mois dans une temple boudiste. Elle m'a spontanement propose de me faire visiter Bangkok avec quelques copines. On avait rendez vous a 9h dans une grande surface pres de la st http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-373881.html I mentionned in the previous post I would have to kill a few hours in various airports. This was the perfect occasion to test my new camera in difficult conditions low artificial light light colored walls and sleep deprivation It was also a good experience since I find difficult to take close ups shots of people.Theme Night life at Mumbai airportPour les francais J'ai passe pas mal de temps http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-373565.html same article but in french meme article mais en francaisJe viens de passer 4 jour fantastiques a Kathmandu. Quand Michel un ami qui a fait l'ecole EPITA avec moi a vu sur facebook que j'etais au Nepal Il m'a dit qu'il avait de la famille la bas et que je pouvais habiter chez eux quelque jours. C'etait une tres bonne nouvelle car apres pres de 5 mois a bourlinguer au 4 coins du monde un pe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-373242.html I just spent 4 fantastic days in Katmandu. When my university friend Michel saw on my facebook profile that I was in Nepal he told me he had family living there and that I was welcome to stay at their house. This was a great news and after almost 5 months backpacking around the planet a little bit of comfort was indeed very welcome Thanks Michel So I met Sarah and her parents and I have been http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-372363.html On me rapelle que je n'ecris pas beaucoup en Francais... C'est vrai c'est vrai j'avoue Mais bon du coup ca vous donne une excuse pour bosser un peu votre anglais ou bien pour aller chercher quelqu'un qui parle la lague de Shakespeare pour vous faire une fraduction toute mignonne. Enfin bref aujourd'hui pas besoin de tracuction mis a part pour les accents qui a mon humble avis devraient etr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-369223.html It's hard to tell but if Varanasi is not the dirtiest city in the word it must be good second It's hard to explain. The old city consists of very narrow streets less than 2 meters wide. Sick dogs and huge cows wander aimlessly in there pooing everywhere. The street is covered with some sticky mixture that probably contain every single desease on earth. Everybody is very careful because falli http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttar-Pradesh/Varanasi/blog-367284.html Khajuraho is famous for its temples. Have you heard of the kamasutra Will the temples here are basically a kamasutra in stone numerous carving depict daily live as well as erotic sexual positions. Most tourists walk around looking for the most explicit ones and so did I. By the way I bought the original version of the kamasutra text and I did not really enjoy reading it. There is really no http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Madhya-Pradesh/Khajuraho/blog-364669.html Hey I'm back. I was sick for a few days... Indian food is tasty and also spicy sometimes but can be deadly for your stomach. Anyway it's all good now My camera nikon P5100 is not working properly so I don't have any photos to upload. I'll probably try to get a new one when I'll get to Thailand. In the meanwhile I'll ask strangers to take occasional pictures and send them to me pI left Go http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-363624.html Happy new year I arrived in Bombay very early in the morning and began to search for someone who wanted to go to Colaba the cheap place in town so we could share the taxi fare. I finaly found a friendly couple from Finland. Most people I talked to were going to Goa for the new year so I decided to give it a go as well. After spending two weeks in a deserted area Sinai I felt like seeing more http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Arambol/blog-358950.html The wind was really strong yesterday and sand would fly everywhere so we all stayed inside for a few hours. When I came back to my hut at about midnight I had a nasty surprise there was sand everywhere Check out the pictures Somehow today's weather is fine. Actually it's better than fine and I decided to go snorkling. Someone told me about some large coral reef nearby. One of my friend got so http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-356876.html ... is not that bad It's a bit like summer in France I decided to get off the beaten track a little bit. I travelled from Cairo to Suez in order to sea the giant boats passing by and then moved on to Nuweiba a place lost in the Sinai.I have my own hut on the beach red sea and a lot of free time. That's exactly what I needed. What do I do all day Well swimming snorkling reading playing http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-356370.html