http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/manjit-jaya-suhi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from manjit jaya suhi en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:15:57 +0000 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:15:57 +0000 Its soon to be two years since we returned from our travels in that time many things have happened but I feel that itrsquos a shame not to complete this blog as its something for us to go back and read if not anyone else. I shall give you my account of what happened once myself and Jaya parted ways with Manjit.Well on 24th of June me and Jaya waved quite a tearful goodbye to Manjit which invo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-129065.html Yes you have read correctly we are no longer taking the world by storm together. Myself and Jaya have parted ways with Manjit. Jaya and I are travelling to Cambodia to work in an orphanage and Manjit is continuing her journey with her dad before heading of to India on the 9th of July. Im not quite sure if you have heard this title before but it is what we have named ourselves after our many mishap http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Penang/blog-13525.html Kuch Be Hota Hai If you are wondering about the strange title well i think it perfectly sums up Indonesia. As a loose translation for all you nonHindi speaking people it means anything can happen in Indonesia and it invariably does. Whether its soaking up the rays in Bali climbing a volcano in Flip Flops going to see a Ramayana ballet at the back of an ancient temple complex or having Indonesi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/blog-12519.html Malaysia is kool dont get me wrong but 4 me i have 2 admit what sums it up is the incrediable food. I was part and parcel of introducing jaya and manjit to tamil food. We will take away kadala vadas from the experience its snack food made from dale and u can get it in most tamil shops ok not that im advertising 4 them or anything. Oh and i can speak tamil but these guys really confused with t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/blog-12358.html Whitsundays Basically Whitsundays is where we go on a sail boat the first day was awful plain awful. It was windy and rainy and basically we all wanted off it. The second day was much better they take u 2 this island and its sand was used 2 make the hubble space telescope so clear and beautiful. Then u go 2 another island where manj did an intro dive she goes that u have 2 really concentrat http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-8646.html so the famous red centrewe went to alice springs from where we went to the red centre where we saw uluru which is ayers rock the olgas and kings canyon. we saw each one over the 3 days and they were amazing sights to see.... the rock was just like u see in pictures.... we walked around the base which took about 1 12 hrs and there are so many flies... just tooooooooooo many but we were lucky http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/blog-11279.html for this trip we were in a group of 11 luckily everyone was really nice so it was a good trip. we had to drive a 4x4 toyota landcruiser round the island which was sooo much fun i am definitely like my dad cos i love to drive... i need to drive somethihng bigger like a lorry or something now this was bigger than the taxi we usually get when we go india with 3 seats in front and 2 benches in t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-8648.html OK as our blog is way behind its an overview of NZ from me Suhi. Ok highlights would be that we drove through NZ we drove Cedric in the North island and Jasmin in the South island and these were our homes along with Johninder which was a tent. So yes we camped NZ which was an experience not an altogether bad one either. Oh except in Queenstown Jaya woke up and touched the outside of the tent http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-8641.html this is our last day in fiji which has been great it is unbelieveably like india... the smell food people weather.. and when it stopped raining we actually saw what we had come to see ie blue skies seas and beaches we stayed on another island for the past 4 days called mana island. cos we obviously aint got as much money to spend we stayed in a backpackers place.. but it was right next do http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/blog-8647.html From Puerto Natales we went to Puerto Montt. It took about 25 hours to get there we had to cross the ChileArgentine boarder twice as the countries are carved up so awkwardly at the end of the continent. Chile got a raw deal its nearly 5000km in length but only on average only 180km wide. Its an absurdly shaped country. Puerto Montt in Manjits words is the skankiest skank hole in the entire S http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/blog-8645.html rosario place of birth of che guevara lovely little town... had our first offical day off when we just lounged around and watched tv. mainly some crappy celebrity channel i am afraid to say... next day saw some monuments and some lovely buildings... next day tried to go to some museums which were obviously shut which we should be getting used to now but we did find an empty park with swings w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-5063.html yes u read right. we got lost.we had time to stop in a few places on the way down south so we decide we would all choose one place on the map and just stop there. i chose pehuenco which is on the coast. well according to the book it is. we bought the bus ticket there and the destination said pehuajo which we thought might just be another name for it. but no.... that is actually where we went. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-8636.html yes we're still in south america and its freezing jaya seems to be coming down with the sniffles.. and i am wearing 5 layers at the moment we been going through patagonia the last week and is DEFINITELY worth coming to argentina for it... its absolutely amazing jaw droppingly beautiful... words cannot describe we went to el chalten where the fitz roy mountian is.. we didn't do that trek but a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Chubut/blog-8637.html After NZ it was good to be surrounded by ppl it was a city and i was happy. We stayed in Kings Cross and it is basically Sydneys equivalent 2 Soho it was an experience. We not only visited the opera house but we put on our glad rags well as much as we could muster 2gether and went 2 watch a ballet it was pretty kool. The show was great and we were really lucky that we could catch one. Oh an http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-8643.html Forgive me if i can't remeber the dates i'm sitting in an airconditioned peter pans internet cafein wonderfully hot Cairns trying to remember Ushuaia that cold place at the bottom of the world. Firstly to dispell a myth. Ushuaia claims to be the most sourthernly city on the planet. Actually that honour belongs to Puerto Williams in Chile which is a fraction more southernly than Ushuaia along http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-8638.html there is exactly 1 month to go now...first we should introduce our trio as all you reading this might not know all of us we all met at seven kings school. jaya and suhi have known each from year 7 and manjit joined them in the sixth form of the same school so at least one good thing came out of that place we have been friends ever since even though we all went to different unis and studied http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-2603.html here is the route we plan to take... it may be changed depending on how we like the place or for any other reason. LondonBrazil inc Rio AmazonArgentina inc Iguassu FallsChileNew Zealand FijiAustralia inc Sydney Ayers Rock Brisbane Cairns DarwinIndonesia inc BaliSingaporeMalaysiaThailand inc BangkokCambodiaVietnamLaosSri Lanka ManjitIndia Manjit and Jaya http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-2761.html what a week... and unfortunately mostly not nice last thursday jaya and suhi started on their rabies injections of which we need 3... and have to pay for when suhi was going to work she felt so unwell that she had to go back home and her parents had to take her straight to AE... because she had an allergic reaction to the injection. It was very very bad reaction and it scared the hell out http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-2764.html this will be short and sweet and we are on a budget and dont have that much money for the netwe finally left the cold of london to arrive in the RAIN OF RIO its like taking a warm shower with clothes...we have been here in rio de janerio for 4 days and have seen all the major sights copacabana beach sugar loaf mountian the statue of christ among other things.we are now like the locals as w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-de-Janeiro/blog-3371.html firstly apologies for the delay in posting... but its hard to find the time to write this upwe went from rio up to manaus which is a town in the amazon. from there we went to a floating lodge actually in the jungle... and i think i speak for all of us when i say that we had the best time we stayed there for 2 nights and we slept in hammocks and 3 of the walls of the lodge were open was very d http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/blog-3881.html