http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/scottandanny/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from scottandanny en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:14:15 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:14:15 +0000 These are some shots from my trip to India in 2004. They are scans from 35ml prints and fairly low quality.An incredible trip to an amazing country and the catalyst for my now incurable wanderlust http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-447005.html Lying on my back with my head in the stars and I'm gone. In my right ear I can hear the gentle asthmatic rasping of the rhythmically breathing sea whilst in my left I have the vast silence of the Sinai desert. Below me is coarse golden sand and above man above the stars explode across the deathly black palette of the sky like an particularly reserved measured and ordered Jackson Pollock spla http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-441668.html We were warned that Cairo was going to be a hectic immersion point and we were well prepared but we were not expecting the streets to be so busy at 2am on a Sunday morning. Intense crowds in their Sunday best thronged the streets eating ice cream throwing firecrackers and generally having a proper old party even the shops were still open and doing excellent business The reason for this late http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-439854.html The last third of our second stay in Laos continued the thematic trend set by the first two that of water and stupor. The only differences being that the water rather than flowing lazy and muddy past our bungalow as the Mekong now came predominantly from above in the form of rain and several impressive waterfalls. The soporific stupor engendered by dwindling funds did not change however. The http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/South/Bolaven-Plateau/blog-294206.html Laos if I could compare thee to a dish then you would certainly be spaghetti carbonara. Why Because spaghetti carbonara is such an incredibly delicious dish easy to make with so few constituent ingredients but can be and often is made extremely badly mine of course being the best. Spaghetti egg yolks cream bacon parmesan and pepper that's it nothing more yet what an abominable ha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/South/Si-Phan-Don/blog-288738.html The last two weekrsquos have been spent in the company of family Meyer and Andy on the Islands of Ko Phan Ngan and Ko Tao. It has been much less difficult than I imagined. Anny and I left Borneo flew to Penang and then crossed into Thailand on the train arriving on Ko Phan Ngan a couple days before the Meyer invasion. As four months ago has so much time disappeared already we stayed at Co http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Tao/blog-280946.html If Bako national park is foil then Uncle Tan's is heavy metal cause it rocks Sorry about that what a lame way to start let me explain. Since arriving in Malaysia we have spent a good proportion of our time in the jungle even more so in Borneo. We have loved every second of it but none more so than our last three days on the Kinabatangan river at Uncle Tan's famous jungle camp. Bako proba http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Kinabatangan/blog-274877.html BARIOThe day breaks so slow like a questionthat does not care to be askedthe mist diffuses soft light refusesthe answers to which I've been tasked From out of this drifting miasmatree's rise and then disappearit seems what I seek this morning is meekthe whole world is shrunk and unclear Now slowly with no explanationthe day deigns I may at last seefor what mist concealed is now given revealeda http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/Bario/blog-272680.html Heavily laden with our three heavy bags as well as the supplies we had purchased at the local market the simple flat bottomed wooden boat made its erratic and precarious way through the rapids of the Skrang river to our destination an Iban longhouse. It was a beautiful journey as the boat swung from one side of the fast flowing river to the other dodging logs and shooting rapids I leaned b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/blog-271417.html Bako National park is fairly small in stature but not in content the amount of flora and fauna squeezed into its environs is quite staggering. For someone like myself with a keen interest in the natural world but lacking in the time means and money to go seriously deep into the jungle this place is just perfect. With relatively short excursions into the jungle we have been able to view often at http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/Bako-National-Park/blog-269794.html The bed was a raised platform of hard widely spaced wooden slats. Ours was one of eight and they were all located in a concrete room about ten meters square the roof was wood and tin and in one corner was the toilet. The toilet was filthy with mud and crawling with insects the shower such as it was was fed from a tank in the roof and leaked sending a constant stream of water down the concret http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Kuala-Tahan/blog-267216.html still been on Thailand's islands since the last missive stop ko adang and ko lipe stop have been doing very little except the small amount that is required stop eating stop sleeping stop snorkelling all day stop becoming almost fanatically obsessed with the underwater world stop ko adang wild and rugged with tropical rainforest and deserted beaches stop we camped stop ko lipe more developed but wi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Lipe/blog-263858.html Been to two more Islands since the last blog Ko Lanta and Ko Mook. Have spent the majority of our time on the beaches with the odd trek inland to relieve the weighty stress of doing nothing So as last time there is very little to report enjoy. Ko Lanta is a fairly large island with all the best beaches along its 35km west coast we ended up staying on Long Beach cause it's like long at a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Muk/blog-261093.html I'm back We have decided to kick back and relax this month which means that you guy's get to take it easy too I can't be bothered to write a huge missive so let's just all take it easy and as my great friend Brad once said if she's easy take her twice Brad is from Australia so that kind of excuses his casual sexism but doesn't justify my repeating it. Oh well. We left Laos in Vientiane and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Railay/blog-257856.html My name is Ben you don't know me. I have been asked to ghost write this blog by Scott whose acquaintance I made not three days ago here in Vang Vieng. The reason that this should be so Well that's a little hard to explain. Scott likes to say that he's experienced a temporary aberration of cognitive reasoning but in less overblown language one could say he's basically lost it. To Scott I h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vang-Vieng/blog-255001.html It's been a little while and there's much to tell but as I've previously proved I have an inability to be concise. I hope there will be some sparkling diamonds of interest and excitement for you to mine but they will most likely be buried in so much mud and filth you guy's are gonna have to get your brains dirty and dig If you find any diamonds that is stick 'em up your arseWe had our http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/East/Muang-Kwa/blog-250656.html So last blog was from Saigon where we were drunk. From there we moved up the coast to Mui ne where we got you guessed it folks drunk It was Anny's birthday though so we had an excuse just like we did for Tet just so happened that one followed very quickly from the other. We celebrated Anny's birthday on a beachfront restaurant with a six course meal and several bottles of Vodka costing abou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-246883.html Chuc mung nam moiHappy new year from Vietnam Wasn't planning on writing a blog today but its been fairly intersesting. A wee disclaimer before I continue I'm exeptionally drunk right now and anything I may say could be used as so much trash for a very bright fire. Only posted a blog a few days ago but wanted those of you who care to know about our last few days.We are in Saigon Ho Chi Mi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-243772.html Only one full day left in enigmatic Cambodia. It's going to be such a shame to leave this incredible country as there's so much all in the details that we're going to miss. Here are some of the minutiae that make up the crazy whole that we love so much Khmer food especially Lok Lak and the supremely delicious Amok local markets selling the living barely living and very much dead creatures http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/East/Senmonorom/blog-242575.html Sua s'dei from Cambodia the land of bruised bottom's amazing temples and friendly joyous people. Before we get on to that though I'll fill you in on our last days for the minute in Thailand. We left the Khao Yai National park and made our way to Nang Rong via Nakhon Ratchasima to use it as our base for exploring the temples of Prasat Phanom Rung. We stayed in a lovely homestay basically a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-239633.html