http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/vaj/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from vaj en-us Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:25:09 BST Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:25:09 BST The bus got into Skopje at 545am. I had to change bus and the bus to Ohrid left just pass 6am.Got into Ohrid at 945am. At the bus station an elderly gentleman asked me if I was looking for accommodation and I said yes. He was riding a bicycle so we walked to his house which was a 10 minute walk from the bus station. He said he can give me a room with an attached bathroom for Euros 15 per night and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/Ohrid/blog-258106.html Woke up around 11am and got dressed as some of Vesnarsquos couch surfing friends had organised a picnic in a nearby mountain called Avala.Here's a short history of mount Avala from Wikipedia...StartAvala is the mountain overlooking the city of Belgrade Serbia situated in the southeastern corner of the city and offering a great panoramic view. It stands at 511 metres 1677 ft above sea level http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Serbia/West/Belgrade/blog-258104.html I woke up around 7am but went back to sleep and woke up around 1130am. The girls Natasha Ivana and Jelena were still asleep.Ones the girlrsquos woke up it was breakfast time. Ivana wanted to go to the market near her flat to get food stuff. I went with her and I bought some onions bread eggs and some chillie powder.After we got back I made some ldquoSeeni Sambolrdquo essentially fried on http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Serbia/West/Belgrade/blog-255890.html Woke up at 0715 and stayed in my couch till 0730 until the alarm went. Thereafter took a shower and got ready. I left with Vesna Vecky she went to work and I went to the bus station to go to Novi Sad.Novi Sad is the capital city of an Autonomous Province in Northern Serbia called Vojvodina. Similar to Kosovo the difference being that in Vojvodina the people are not asking for an independent sta http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Serbia/North/Novi-Sad/blog-255883.html Woke up at 7am showered had breakfast and left Ves's house at 8am. When I got to the tram almost immediately there was tram No. 7 to the main bus station. Fortunately it was one of the old trams that you can buy a ticket from the driver.People as usual do look at you because clearly I don't look like one of them. Got to the bus station at 0840. The bus leaves Zagreb at 0900 and it takes 6 hours. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Serbia/West/Belgrade/blog-254747.html Croatia Airlines flight OU493 was supposed to depart London Heathrow LHR at 1050am. When I woke up in the morning and looked outside with my little experience working at London Heathrow I knew that Croatia Airlines flight OU492 would not even get to London by 1050am. This is because there was soo much fog and therefore Air Traffic Control would increase the separation between landing aircrafts http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Heathrow-Airport/blog-254738.html I had to wake up early because the bus to Chefchaoune was leaving at 8am. So I got into the bus station which is just outside the medina and bought my ticket and thereafter had a cheese crepe essentially like a cheese kothu.One thing being vegetarian has done to me I have started eating loads of eggs cheese and oranges. Guess I got to get the protien and vitamins from somewhere.While enroute t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Tangier-T-touan/Chefchaouen/blog-229162.html I woke up early and went all over the old medina. Climbed a few places to get good views of the city. I was at this chicken stall when one woman came and gave an order for like 20 chickens. They took 5 live birds at a time to weigh them and thereafter put them inside this glass box. While weighing you can see the birds crapping all over and trying to fly away. They repeated this process until they http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/F-s-Boulemane/Fes/blog-229160.html Woke up early as I wanted to go to Moulay Idris and Volubilis. There are no collective taxis i.e. a shared taxi with 7 people in it 2 passengers in front and 4 at the back plus the driver to Volubilis but there are to Moulay Idiris.The place to get a grand taxi to Moulay is not from the same place as the other taxi the place is in the Meknes new city and I was looking for it all over the place http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Mekn-s-Tafilalet/Meknes/blog-229159.html Woke up early and I went to this cafe I had seen last night. The owner was nice man and spoke English. I had something called Feve its like a lentil soup. I think anything with the right amount of salt will taste nice.Checked email and thereafter checked out of the hotel and took a grand taxi to Meknes. The trip took around 1.5hours.I met this girl in the taxi who spoke English and we got chatting http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Mekn-s-Tafilalet/Meknes/blog-228884.html Woke up early in the morning for the sunrise. Was disappointed with the view of the sun rise guess I was expecting something different again all what I saw was the sun rising from a dune and then saw the sun rising from another dune it was really useless. I think whatrsquos important is to see the sun rise from the horizon and thats not what I saw.I kept walking up a dune and noticed there were http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Mekn-s-Tafilalet/Merzouga/blog-228610.html I woke up around 8am and took a shower. Had mint tea and had a chat with the owners son. I said what I can afford is Dhm550. He said the lowest is 650 and then after bargaining it became 600 and then I said come on I am a student from Sri Lanka I donrsquot have much money and that he wouldnrsquot have to spend much money on food because I'm vegetarian and lets do this for 550. He said let me g http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Mekn-s-Tafilalet/Merzouga/blog-228602.html The guy at the reception told me that there is a tour for 2 nights 3 days where they did the two gorges near Tenehir and the Marzhouga desert which was costing Dhm1050 or Dhm850 without a camel ride. The French couple was doing it and they required a 3rd person. Even though I heard from the French couple yesterday that they had met travellers who said it was good I felt the price was a little stee http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Mekn-s-Tafilalet/Merzouga/blog-228551.html I woke up around 7am the streets were quiet and empty. I went upstairs towards the terrace where the hotel served breakfast looking at what they offered and how much it cost I decided not to have it. Bread jam and coffee for Dhm20 not even an omlette no way.I walked towards the Taourirt Kasbah went inside for Dhm10 and checked it out. I met this french couple at the Kasbah who told me about A http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Souss-Massa-Dra-/Ouarzazate/blog-228358.html Yesterday I came back to Hotel Ali and after having a much needed proper shower after two days walked about did my emailing and went to bed around 1230am...it was good to see Nouri again who was going to leave the day before but as most relaxed slow traveller are he was still there... I woke up around 815am did the three S's had breakfast and called Aziz's friend in Marak Hussain and he said http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-228352.html Woke up at 930am after the late night out and went back to the hotel. Wanted to go to the Portugese fort but it was shut. Instead climbed a few building to get good panoramic views of the city. The best view of Essaouira is from the terrace of Majestic hotel which I came across quite by chance. The only building taller than this is the mosque and obviously you canrsquot et there. Only the loudsp http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Essaouira/blog-224269.html Woke up around 830am had the hotel breakfast which is included in the price of the dorm...they served bread omlette creps yogurt orange juice and coffee. Afterwards I put my backpack into a locker room and left to Essaouira which took approx 3.5hrs. The guy at the bus station said its Dhm45 and then i said the guidebook says 35 then he said thats without luggage and i said i dont have luggage http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Essaouira/blog-224268.html Ryan air flight got to Marrakech at 930am. I met Daniel an American doing a Ph.D. at LSE in London at the Luton airport. We took a bus from the airport to the medina. The return ticket cost me Dhm30 valid for 2 weeks while a single was Dhm20. The bus ride took about 15mins. I had booked a hostel from hostelworld but that was very poorly rated. The only reason I booked it was so that I had an accom http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-224267.html I have finally reached my destination london and my trip Colombo London in 50 days has finally ended.Visited Countries MapThank you for everyones inputTake care and all the best Be Happy Vaj http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-43513.html I went for the Depeche Mode concert and the atmosphere was absolutely amaying......here are the pictures.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-41795.html