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By jaymiii
February 25th 2008

Chiang Mai

 Asia » Thailand » North » Chiang Mai
So we are now in Chiang Mai up North!! Our last day in Bangkok was spent at a shopping mall and the cinema. Haha the cinema was amusing...after the trailers and ad's were over the screen went blank and suddenely everybody quickly stood up straight. We assumed it was some strange film etiquette over here and reluctantly stood up too. Then a short film commenced basically showing various images of the king - his face on the stamp, his face on billboards, soldiers saluting the king etc as the national anthem played in the background. We were like hmm has the [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 25th 2008 | 81 Views | [diary=249753]


By jaymiii
February 21st 2008

River Kwai and tigers!!!

 Asia » Thailand » Central » Bangkok
Ohhh it's suchhh a perfect dayyyyy I have had an amazing day today so I'm in a very jolly mood indeed!!!! We organised a trip out so we were picked up from our hotel (we don;t do things by halves you know) at 7am. Another early start!!! First stop....WW2 cemetery. So basically the people buried here were Japanese POW. Basically we all know the Japanese wer evil bastards during the war. This included forcing POW and pressganging the general public into building a railway, now known as the 'death railway' as so many people died due to the terrible conditions. The [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 21st 2008 | 116 Views | [diary=248613]

bridge over river kwai
eeek train!!!
don

By jaymiii
February 20th 2008

Thailand at last!

 Asia » Thailand » Central » Bangkok
We arrived in Bangkok the day before yesterday. As soon as we arrived in the airport it was like a breath of fresh air (literally). It was clean, spacious and organised (Delhi airport is a joke). The taxi journey to our hotel took about three quarters of an hour and it was cool looking out of the window at Bangkok. It reminded us of Singapore with skyscrapers etc. Our hotel is really nice so we were impressed!!! The first day we didn't do much just checked out Khao San Rd-which I had heard was really dirty and busy, but I found [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 20th 2008 | 119 Views | [diary=248159]


By jaymiii
February 17th 2008

Last day in India

 Asia » India
Well, my trip in India has almost reached an end. We are flying to Bangkok this evening!! The night before last, was our last meal as a GAP group, a last supper if you will. I joked that our leader Joshi was Judas, and in some peoples opinions that wasn't far from the truth. Many felt he hadn't fulfilled his duty (of which i was glad, i didn't want a school trip, I prefered that he let us get on with our own thing), but laos that he had told many lies and that he was getting a lot of commission [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 17th 2008 | 90 Views | [diary=247109]

monkeys
i like stray dogs!
snake charmer!!

So...we got a train from Jaipur to Agra meeting at 5am. We were gonna have an early night but me, Nick and James ended up staying up chatting until after midnight so were exhausted. The train journey was a mess from the start with firstly two Indians screaming at each other for about fifteen minutes, Basically some woman had a box that she put on somebody elses seat and expected the poor guy to move. Then, a bunch of Danes (who I originally thought were German) started having a massive go at our group for sitting in their seats (which we [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 14th 2008 | 228 Views | [diary=246234]

lunch overlooking the Taj
monsoon palace udaipur
udaipur

By jaymiii
February 9th 2008

Pink city (apparently)

 Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jaipur
ghats
ghats
women wash clothes and themselves in the lake! This was in udaipur
Am now in Jaipur, arrived yesterday morning by bus, only a 4 hour journey this time!! Not bad ey?! Well I last wrote in Pushkar and on that very evening at around 1am I was extremely ill. It was awful. I think it was the orange juice (which was more of a murky brown and didn't taste great), but hey i was thirsty!!! Anyay I woke up around 1am and had to run to the bathroom to be sick. I then returned to bed and ten minutes had to return to the bathroom. I was in the bathroom until 4.30am throwing [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 9th 2008 | 96 Views | [diary=244455]

udaipur
washing drying

By jaymiii
February 6th 2008

Gays

 Asia » India » Rajasthan » Pushkar
Well, haven't had time to write for a few days now. Lst time i wrote I was in Jodphur, I think at the end I said w would be getting the bus to Jaipur the next day. However, while on the bus I found out it was Udaipur. As someone today said "Jaymi...you never have a clue what's goin on". But anyway, we left Udaipur this morning and after eight long hours on the bumpiest ride ever (we were literally flung out of our seats every few minutes) we arrived in Pushkar. So let me start where I left off.....So our [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 6th 2008 | 203 Views | [diary=243535]

me and Steven!!
Lake Palace in background
James Nick Cat and meee chilling on island

By jaymiii
February 3rd 2008

The Blue City!!!

 Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur
blue city
blue city
ithe haze isn't fog, it's dust and pollution
So we arrived in Jodphur yesterday afternoon. We had been told the bus journey would take 8 hours and we set off at 6am so we weren't looking forward to it! However it only took around 5 hours and wasn't too bad despite the annoying tune the bus had for a horn which was also ridiculously loud! So looking out of the bus window upon arrival we weren't too impressed. It reminded us a bit of Delhi-lots of stalls, litter etc. We got a rickshaw to our hotel and it was the scariest thing ever!! They are usually pretty scary anyway [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 3rd 2008 | 113 Views | [diary=242309]

colourful clothes

By jaymiii
February 1st 2008

Camels and spitting

 Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jaisalmer
Hi guys, Well, I don't ave much time so I'll make this speedy. So I'll just describe the town I'm staying in. Basically its centered around a frt and theres lots of narrow streets. Each street is lined with stalls and you can't walk by without "please come and look at my things, very nice things come and see". The grou I'm travelling with are the tightest bastards I've ever met. We ltierally won't part with anything. There are 80 rupees to the pound and anything that's more than 100 rupees (including meals) we are like haha you wish. But we [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 1st 2008 | 119 Views | [diary=241702]


By jaymiii
January 30th 2008

slow net in india grr

 Asia
Do you know how long it has took me to upload this page...only for it to crash...then i have to restart...then for it to time out....then for me to restart....I've been trying for half an hour...thats 20 rupees gone!!! Twenty rupees to sit here in this stinking room grr. Ah well, anyway, I can't upload any pics due to the speed which is a real shame as we have some amusing ones!! So what have I been upto since I last wrote which if I remember correctly was Sunday evening?! Well Monday morning was an early start in Delhi as we [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 30th 2008 | 97 Views | [diary=241105]




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