Alex
Im 20 years old and from Coventry, England. I Have keen interests in music, Bike Riding, Socialising, Watching Films, Computer games and Travelling!!!sublimeiswhatigot
Im going away for 6 months, im going to (in Order) Taipei, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand & Thailand
Days until im home
Travel Blog Posts
March 27th 2009
When we arrived back on the mainland in Surat Thani we headed to the airport as we were catching a plane back to Bangkok because the train was booked up and it didn't cost us very much. The flight only took us about an hour and we arrived 20 minutes earlier then expected, we caught a taxi from the airport to where we were staying which was called Ban Sabai Hostel. Although it was called a hostel it was more like a good hotel and our room was fantastic and because it was a member of hosteling international i could use a discount card i brought in Oz which meant our private double room with en suite only cost 600 Baht a night or £11.50. By the time we had got to the hostel it was ... read more
March 23rd 2009
After a brief sleep we headed along Silom Road which was the main road next to our hostel, we went in search of some breakfast and after not finding anything but street vendors (Which looked a little dodgy) we settled on a nice nutritional breakfast of an ice cream shake! After which we headed along the road until we reach an MRT station, the MRT was the same thing i caught when i was in Taiwan and Hong Kong and its a very efficient underground train. We caught it to the main station called Hua Lampong and it cost us an extortionate 18 Baht or 35p in real money, we had both decided that we wanted to head south out of Bangkok to one of the small islands and the receptionist at our hostel suggested catching ... read more
March 19th 2009
I mentioned in my blog on Auckland that i had to catch my shuttle to the airport at 3:30am which i did but when i arrived around 4:30am i was told that i wasn't meant to be flying out until the next day!!! Now before you start thinking how stupid i am it said on all the paper work i had on me that i was leaving Auckland on the 18th but because the company i was flying out with stopped doing flights to and from New Zealand they had arrange some alternative flights for me and they booked them for the 19th. So i had to head back to my hostel which cost me twice as much as the shuttle to the airport as i hadn't pre booked it, then i had to check back ... read more
March 17th 2009
I arrived in Auckland at midday and again i couldn't check in until 2pm so i sat in the lounge and sorted out my blog and some things for Thailand. After i checked in i went for a walk towards the only major landmark i knew about. The Sky Tower is the tallest man made structure in New Zealand and seemed very similar to ones i have seen in Sydney and Melbourne but there was one thing i did notice that was different, you could Sky Jump, which is a wired base jump where they attach a cable to you and you jump off the top and fall 192 meters, i stood watching people do it for while then headed back to the hostel. As i mentioned before i met some Americans that live in Auckland ... read more
March 15th 2009
After only an hours drive from Taupo i arrived in Rotorua and just a 3 minute walk down the road was my hostel. I was told that i couldn't check in and put my bags in my room as the room wouldn't be ready until 2pm and it was only 11am so i decided to go for a walk to pass the time. The first thing i noticed when getting off the coach was the over powering smell of rotten eggs!!!! The smell comes from the sulphur in the air as Rotorua is a hive of geothermal activity and is dotted with hundred of geysers, thermal springs and hot mud pools, so i thought I'd take a look around the local park which is next to the hostel as it was home to many of these. ... read more
March 14th 2009
I left Wellington at 8am and headed to Taupo, along the way i noticed that the scenery was a lot more baron in the north island and most of the landscape was farmland where as in the south island a lot of it was national park and forests. When we arrived at the outskirts of Taupo i could see 2 mountains one called Mount Ruapehu and the other Mount Ngauruhoe or Mount Doom as its also known as it was used in the Lord of the Rings movie. Other then The lord of the rings movie Taupo is famous for the lake that it surrounds called Lake Taupo which is a giant volcano crater, the lake is the largest lake in New Zealand, with a surface area of 616 square kilometers it could house the whole ... read more
March 12th 2009
Like i said before in my last blog it was another early start, in fact the earliest yet (At least in Nz) it took just over 5 hours to get to Picton which is at the top of the south island and is where you catch the Inter Islander ferry to get to the north island. The weather forecast wasn't very good and unlike Akaroa there weren't any miracles so it was really rough and took an hour more then it should due to the bad weather. I've discovered before (In Cairns when sailing to the Great Barrier Reef) that I'm not particularly good on boats and the weather made it worse so i spent half the journey in the toilet throwing up, its a shame it was bad because id heard on a nice day ... read more
March 10th 2009
After a six hour journey i arrived in Christchurch for the 2nd time, i caught a bus to Chris's house and was let in by his little brother as everyone else was at work but when they all got back they gave me a really warm welcome and we caught up on what I'd been up to and what they'd been doing. I also made plans for the next day as i wanted to go to Akaroa to swim with dolphins, i managed to convince Marie (Chris's girlfriend) to come with me if i paid for the petrol down there and we called up and booked two places. The following day i got my stuff ready and Marie and i drove to Akaroa, the drive down there was really nice and didn't take very long and ... read more
March 9th 2009
I pre warn you all that this is going to be a very short and boring blog entry. After a bad nights sleep i woke up and rushed to get ready to get the coach at 7:30am! I made it just in time but 5 minutes after we set off i realised i had left my food back at the hostel but we couldn't turn around so i had to leave it. I was so tired that i wasn't really paying much attention to what the bus driver was saying about the things we drove by and after stopping for a break i fell asleep and by the time i woke up we were nearly in Dunedin. Throughout the journey (or at least the part i was awake for) it had rained and when we got ... read more
March 7th 2009
I got on the coach at 7:45am and got myself comfy as i knew this was going to be a long journey, to get to Queenstown takes just over 8 hours but it wasn't a bad journey because our driver was giving commentary along the way like we were on a tour bus and would tell us everything including a count on the road kill he could see!!! He also stopped at various locations and let us off to take photos which was really good because most of the time you just drive by things and don't get a chance to look at anything. We went to Fox glacier first to pick up some passengers, Fox Glacier is only a short distance from Franz but the glacier there isn't as big or as impressive. We drove ... read more
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