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Jason & Nathalie Jason and Nathalie on a world tour taking in Central America, China, India, East Africa and a few spots in between. We're looking forward to the horizon expanding before us. We've two tickets, two backpacks, a penknife and our colourful dreams of far flung places are soon to get vividly retouched by reality. Fiji, Australia, the Philippines, Japan and Sri Lanka will also feature, so it'll be us versus some new and strange(!) places. Scream if you want to go faster!
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Business class
La grande traversée: Kipumbwe-Mkokotoni (Zanzibar)... 10 heures ça nous a pris...
FRENCHAprès Mombasa, on a pris la direction de la Tanzanie… Dernière étape. On est arrivé à la frontière vers les 5 heures de l’après-midi, après plusieurs heures de boda-boda... On a commencé par changer tous nos shillings kenyans en shillings tanzanien... juste à temps pour entendre l’officier des douanes coté Tanzanie nous dire quelques minutes plus tard qu’il n’accepte pas la devise officielle de son pays pour le paiment des frais de visa... On ressort. On change nos shillings tanzaniens en dollars américains... On a pas gagné au change, c'est clair, mais au moins we've spread the love comme on dit... [View Full Entry]

johohwun - Jason & Nathalie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1702 words | [diary=218514] | 2007-11-19 15:18:15

Where
Stone Town
Big Tree in Stone Town

ENGLISH As India said goodbye with an angry bout of pink eye for Nathalie, Nairobi greeted us with sunshine and beer named after elephants. We planned to leave for a safari in the Maasai Mara the next day but figuring safari-ing might be a dusty pastime we delayed our departure for 5 days while the eye specialist's advice and medication took effect. 5 days in Nairobi took us not very far. To town (in a taxi) and back before dark. No hanging out on the streets at night we'd been told, so we spent evenings listening to travellers tales from East [View Full Entry]

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Weird horses
A cat unsatisfied by Whiskas
Shards of light

By johohwun
September 30th 2007

Words of Wisdom

 Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur
"- When Mao came, he took all the land from the landowners and gave it to the peasants. - But so what happened to the landowners? - Mao killed them all! Ah! Ah! Ah!..." 28 year old Chinese guy sitting next to us on the plane - somewhere mid-air between Xi'an and Lijiang, China "The terracotta warriors? You mean like Terracotta Guerlain?" Parisian teenager - Xi'an, China "I don't want you to take it personally but have you ever tried to do something about your accent?" Swedish girl (with a face of pity/disgust) to Nathalie - Puerto Escondido, Mexico "You're from [View Full Entry]

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By johohwun
September 28th 2007

Goodbai Mumbye...

 Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai
FRANÇAIS Dernier week-end en Inde... Week-end culturel à Mumbai, ou Bombay pour ceux qui préfèrent. Juste assez de temps pour... un p'tit tour de 20 minutes en bateau dans le port au départ de Gateway of India, deux soirées à Not just Jazz by the Bay, une bière au café Léopold, quelque musée, une pièce de théatre Les monologues du vagin version indienne, un dernier diné, 1 petite heure de sommeil avant de nous relever au milieu de la nuit (3 heure du mat' quand même!) et prendre un taxi de l'Armée du Salut (ou nous logions) à l'a-ré-ro-port... And It's [View Full Entry]

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Washing buckets @ the Dhobi Ghat

FRENCH Nous avons passé notre dernière semaine en Inde dans le Gujarat, région natale de Gandhi, l'ultra-prêcheur de la non-violence et qui avait bien raison de dire que... "oeil pour oeil et dent pour dent, ça ne ferait jamais que des édentés et des aveugles". Petit arrêt à Ahmedabad ou je suis allée visité l'ashram de... Gandhi donc, pendant que Jason, lui, a préféré aller voir un puit à l'architecture archi-impressionante, un baoli ça s'appelle. On a enchainé le soir-même par 8 heures de bus pour Bhuj. Bhuj est une petite ville mignonne, propre (relativement... parce que dans la vie, tout [View Full Entry]

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Ahmedabad - baoli
Ahmedabad - baoli
Ahmedabad - baoli

By johohwun
September 17th 2007

Rajasthan (2ème Partie)

 Asia » India » Rajasthan » Udaipur
INGLES In the pleasant and pleasing city of Udaipur we found a fancy room with a view on to Lake Pichola. Though the city wasn't pink or blue like Jaipur or Jaisalmer it boasted a Maharaja's palace bedecked with coloured mirror chambers and a monsoon palace for when it got too wet and humid in town. Udaipur felt very different to old Jaipur. The winding lanes still oozed the viscous mix of bikes, pedestrians, motorbikes, loafers, autorickshaws, cars and cows but somehow there was less accumulation of debris. Add to that the relief from the crowding provided by two lakes and [View Full Entry]

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In the City Palace @ Udaipur
City palace deco
City palace deco 2

Jaipur - The man said it brings good luck... The day after, Jason was in hospital.
Jaipur - The man said it brings good luck... The day after, Jason was in hospital.
Le monsieur a dit que ça porte chance (chillis et citrons)... Le lendemain, Jason était hospitalisé.
FRENCH Nous avons débuté par Jaipur et un petit séjour à l'hopital pour Jason, qui, je dois dire, m'a fait un tout p'tit peu peur. Heureusement les docteurs se sont bien occupés de lui. Et au bout de quelques jours, sa chambre était devenu le lieu de rendez-vous où tous les médecins, infirmiers et infirmières se retrouvaient pour bavarder avec nous, regarder le résultat du cricket à la télé, prendre un café ou un thé avec quelques biscuits ou encore assister aux quelques tours de cartes que je connais.Mis à part l’hopital Soni à Jaipur, nous avons également visité la fameuse [View Full Entry]

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Jaipur - Bye bye Umesh! Bye bye Ashish! It
Jaipur - Last day at hospital for Jason
Jaipur - Inside the Pink City still

By johohwun
August 13th 2007

Agro, Agras Agra!

 Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Agra
LES MOTS Le Taj Mahal... J'étais tellement excited à l'idée de voir le Taj Mahal... et en fait, il ressemble de façon effrayante aux photos des magazines de voyage. Voilà, on peut maintenant cocher la case: - Taj Mahal: vu. Attention! Je ne suis pas en train de dire que le Taj n'est pas grandiose. Il est grandiose, magnifique, superbe... Du marbre blanc qui éblouit terriblement dès qu'il y a un petit rayon de soleil (ce qui rend d'ailleurs difficile de garder les yeux ouverts), du marbre blanc avec des pierres précieuses incrustées dans le marbre... un boulot de dingue! De [View Full Entry]

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Platform no. 9... still.
The train track viewed from platform 9
The art of not missng on a moving train

ANGLICHE Delhi: It's old and it's new. The new is broad boulevards, Britisher buildings and monuments and guarded gates; the old is tightly packed bazaars, paan stalls, paan stains and makeshift shelters by the roadside. But there's more, much more even if you only have a few days. Independence day in Delhi meant not only that most everything (save Pizza Hut and the government emporiums) was closed but that any restaurant that is open is dry: in the lacking a drop of liquor to wash down your delicious meal sense. After wandering past the Red Fort, down Chandi Chowk and into [View Full Entry]

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People helping us photo Humayun
Humayun
Humayun

ANGLAIS Auroville. An experiment in human unity according to the blurb... ... . After 4 weeks or so as guests we're not sure what the results of the experiment are. We've seen no love-ins or any sacrifices, so it's safe to say that it's not a cult, (if it is it's a rubbish one) but it is slightly creepy that almost everywhere you look there are pictures of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, the late spiritual leaders/founders of Auroville. Overall it's been good being here. We've met some really welcoming and generous people, had time to meet with locals and Aurovillians [View Full Entry]

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La plage at Sri Ma, Auroville
The Auroville Language Lab
The (real) Carpenters



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