http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/johohwun/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from johohwun en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:43:29 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:43:29 BST FRENCHAprs Mombasa on a pris la direction de la Tanzaniehellip Dernire tape. On est arriv la frontire vers les 5 heures de lrsquoaprsmidi aprs plusieurs heures de bodaboda... On a commenc par changer tous nos shillings kenyans en shillings tanzanien... juste temps pour entendre lrsquoofficier des douanes cot Tanzanie nous dire quelques minutes plus tard qursquoil nrsquoa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-218514.html 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 safariing 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 to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/Nairobi/blog-216106.html FRANAIS Dernier weekend en Inde... Weekend culturel Mumbai ou Bombay pour ceux qui prfrent. Juste assez de temps pour... un p'tit tour de 20 minutes en bateau dans le port au dpart de Gateway of India deux soires Not just Jazz by the Bay une bire au caf Lopold quelque muse une pice de thatre Les monologues du vagin version indienne un dernier din 1 petite heure de sommeil http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/blog-208203.html FRENCH Nous avons pass notre dernire semaine en Inde dans le Gujarat rgion natale de Gandhi l'ultraprcheur de la nonviolence et qui avait bien raison de dire que... oeil pour oeil et dent pour dent a ne ferait jamais que des dents et des aveugles.Petit arrt Ahmedabad ou je suis alle visit l'ashram de... Gandhi donc pendant que Jason lui a prfr aller voir un puit l'archit http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Gujarat/blog-208028.html 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 bike http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-205995.html FRENCH Nous avons dbut par Jaipur et un petit sjour l'hopital pour Jason qui je dois dire m'a fait un tout p'tit peu peur. Heureusement les docteurs se sont bien occups de lui. Et au bout de quelques jours sa chambre tait devenu le lieu de rendezvous o tous les mdecins infirmiers et infirmires se retrouvaient pour bavarder avec nous regarder le rsultat du cricket la tl prend http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/blog-203921.html 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 midair between Xi'an and Lijiang ChinaThe terracotta warriors You mean like Terracotta Guerlain Parisian teenager Xi'an ChinaI don't want you to take it http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-201731.html LES MOTS Le Taj Mahal... J'tais tellement excited l'ide de voir le Taj Mahal... et en fait il ressemble de faon effrayante aux photos des magazines de voyage. Voil 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 blouit terriblement ds qu'il y a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttar-Pradesh/Agra/blog-201410.html 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 clo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-201409.html 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 loveins 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Auroville/blog-189268.html FRENCH Unawatuna... Belle plage et village de bord de mer trs relax mais j'me souviens plus trs bien... J'avais la tte un peu lourde pendant pratiquement tout le temps que nous avons pass lbas. Comme si j'avais un gros pav la place du cerveau. Le Lariam qui commence produire ses effets indsirables sans doute De retour Colombo Jason m'a accompagne chez Dr Amarasinghe pour lui deman http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/Unawatuna/blog-189238.html FRENCH Il y a des policiers et des soldats de l'arme srilankaise partout dans la ville posts peu prs tous les 20 mtres les uns des autres avec ici et l des barrages routiers et des postes de contrle... Pourtant paradoxalement on ne se sent pas vraiment en scurit quand on marche dans les rues de Colombo... La propagande qu'on a pu lire rcemment dans les journaux alimentant davanta http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/Kandy/blog-189237.html FRENCH Madurai ensuite... clbre pour son temple de folie Sri Meenakshi... Lorsque l'art et la religion hindoue se rencontrent on obtient des bizarreries multicolores.Madurai... C'est aussi l o Jason a commenc se sentir moins en forme. Jusqu'ici il n'y avait que moi me plaindre des effets du Lariam... Comme quoi je n'tais donc pas follehellip mise part le fait que sombrer dans l http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-183440.html FRENCH Aprs Fort Cochin nous avons pris un train en direction du Sud. Notre destination Kanyakumari... compltement tout en bas de lrsquoInde. Crsquoest la fin de la terre une sorte de Finistre une sorte de Pointe du Raz... Et quand on regarde droit devant Non on ne voit pas lrsquole de Sein on peut voir 3 eaux diffrentes qui se mlangent les eaux de la baie du Bengale celle http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Kanyakumari/blog-183437.html ANGLAIS ...in fact Kerala is God's Own Country according to the signs. We'd met a friendly guy on the plane who it turned out wasn't trying to take us to his mates shop. Prof. VB Solomon he told us it stands for Very Bad I think thought we'd be skanked as soon as we stumbled off the plane. He therefore chauffeured us in his microvan to the bus station and further offered to drive us down http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/blog-176801.html ENGLISH It's cold up here. And rainy. The sky is grey and the hills are green. They said in the guide book that we borrowed for an hour that Nuwara Elia was like England. I guess that's an attraction of sorts. We came to see the tea plantations cool down and not get bitten by skeeters. The ride up to 2000 odd metres was pretty but there are no photos as we were in an airconditioned sardine http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-176721.html L'ANGLAIS We've read in a number of blogs that the people in XXX town in XXX country are the friendliest or most welcoming. Well it's official for us at least that the most accommodating attentive and welcoming person we've met is a British expat in HK. Take a bow Sarah Jane. Thank youOk we were friends already and she'd invited us months before and we were one of a few who'd made it to HK f http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Hong-Kong-Island/blog-167873.html Hi Le. Li Jing Le. Thanks for the drinks and the lunch and for introducing us to your friends. I've bought a camera now and you'll see the results when we get to Hong Kong. Hope you're well. Here's a few pictures that we took when we were in Kunming. Nathalie Jason http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Kunming/blog-166603.html FRENCH Yangshuo allezy Crsquoest vraiment super Pas tant pour la ville en ellemme qui au passage est pleine de guesthouses et de restos sympas mais pour la cambrousse qursquoil y a autour.On a pass plusieurs jours pdaler de village en village au milieu des rizires le long de la rivire Yulong avec en toile de fond des monts aux formes arrondies ondulant lrsquohorizon... On http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Yangshuo/blog-163766.html ANGLAIS Hello and thanks again to Juice and Sarah who looked after us for our long weekend in Shanghai. We drank champagne and generally lorded it up as you do in Shanghai. We also spent some wandering the Bund taking the cheesy tourist tunnel across the river window shopping in boutiques and having drinks at the top of the Jinbao tower which is pretty high up.FRENCH Amies et amis francophones http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-163764.html