http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/wanderingfeet/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from wanderingfeet en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:20:26 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:20:26 +0000 Well I officially failed at updating my blog at all during my stint in southeast Asia and for that my deepest apologies.I just got off a 17 hour journey from Ko Phi Phi by boat and bus and am feeling a little knackered great word I am bringing it to North America. In my delusional halfawake state I am watching endless Caruso one liner's httpwww.facebook.comextshare.phpsid6497706401 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi/blog-412973.html At long last I decided to sit down to write a new entry. Of course today happens to be the day I choose the computer with the faulty keyboard so advance apologies for typing errors.So since the last entry I've done 3 main excursions in Nepal a 2 week hike up to Everest base camp EBC a few days in the second biggest city in Nepal called Pokhara and a couple of days spend in the Chitwan Nati http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Durbar-Square/blog-396987.html EVEREST We are leaving tomorrow from Kathmadu to take on the base camp of Everest. Should be epic. We fly to Lukla in the early morn and after that it is a 15 day hike to base camp and a look out in the area somewhere around 5350m of elevation. The guide book says that because there are so many valleys we will end up walking 9000m of elevation. I have pack as close to nothing as is possible whe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-390301.html I always knew I was a star. The fact that I can't sing dance or act was never going to stop me from being an international sensation. And lo and behold I found the perfect job... being an ExtraNo acting required just sit and make sure you don't look into the camera. Needless to say I excelled and am now one set closer to having MY picture splashed all over the tabloids. Back to the beginning t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-386049.html A sufficient amount of time has passed to make me feel guilty for neglecting my blog so here we go. I am back in Delhi after almost 3 weeks many kilometers and many more forms of transit.I just uploaded a few pictures to this and the previous entries it took forever and not I don't really feel like writing very much. So in a nut shellAgra The Taj everything and more than I could have ever exp http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/blog-384948.html It's been a few days since my last entry and we have covered quite a bit of ground since then so this is going to be quite long apologies if you are trying to read this discreetly at work. After chilling in Pondi for 2 days we went to check out Auroville which was pretty strange some interesting philosophy but the giant gold orb in the middle freaked me out a bit we took a bus to Mamallapura http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-379384.html After spending a week in Varkalla on its amazing beach set against red cliffs LN and I decided it was time to move on with the real India. Welcome to the overnight sleeper train which might as well have been sold under the title coffin. I don't think I had ever experienced the chesttightening fear known as claustrophobia before last night. After a few seconds of deep breathing I got over it b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Pondicherry/blog-376458.html I am in Alleppey at the moment which claims to be the Venice of India because of the 900km of back water canals which it connects to. Not so much. It is still quite a cool city lots going on but not overwhelming as I expect the big cities are going to be. Definetly not Venice though Something about the rickshaws total disregard for traffic laws and burning garbage everywhere tipped me off. We http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Allepey/blog-373759.html I arrived in Kochi Saturday morning after spending a lovely night in the Bangalore airport met some interesting people including a girl who was about to do a 10 silent meditation retreat where you have to sit for 10 hours straight a day with a 5 minute break. Sounds hellish to me. A guy from Germany also gave me the name of the hostel his parents own in Varkala which was very useful. At the airpo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Munnar/blog-372269.html So I'm standing at the airport in KL on enroute to India. I left Bali this morning coming off the first 2 straight days of sun. Go figure pretty sure I bring bad weather to places. Apparently it was 15 degrees in Busan this week.All in all Bali was amazing so beautiful and insteresting. Central and eastern Bali we stayed in Ubud and Ahmed were my favourite. Ahmed had black sand beaches which I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-370960.html I arrived in Bali on Monday night after spending about 10 days in Korea I'll have to write about that soon but Bali it is for the moment. My mom came to Bali to meet up with me which is very nice. We are staying at the Tegal Sari in Ubud which is really beautiful our room overlooks the rice fields. It is incredibly humid here I feel like shaving my head stripping down and lying in the pool na http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Ubud/blog-367950.html No Place Like Home Back in good old Vancity so far so good it's been really good to see my family and the remaining high school friends who are in Van at the moment. Pretty much though I work. A lot. I am selling toys at a kiosk in the middle of Oakridge for most of this month I want to gauge out my eyes but I fear touching my face after touching the same remote controls as hundreds of dirty http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-354674.html It's been about 3 weeks since I last posted I think quite a bit has happened since then but in the interest of not making this entry overwhelmingly long I figured I would split my thoughts up.First of all back to Rwanda temporarily to talk about the Murambi Genocide Memorial Center. On my way back from Burundi to Kigali I stopped in Butare so that I could go to this memorial. Butare was the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Rwanda/blog-346000.html Back in London Well I'm back in London and man is it cold. I think it is below zero right now and I definitely do not have appropriate clothing. I may actually get hypothermia when I go to Montreal but I'll deal with that when the time comes. Anyway not so happy to be back within the first 30 minutes of arriving back in this lovely city a man and a woman got in a screaming match in the airpo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Trafalgar-Square/blog-339657.html The Old Man is Snoring Ahhh summer showers. Well more like rainy season showers but either way. Stuck in yet another city hiding under scant covering as the rain pours down for 10 minutes. We from Vancouver like to claim we know rain being as it rain all the time but the rain here is different when it rain it really rains if you dont get out quickly you are soked within minutes. Apologies in a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Burundi/West/Bujumbura/blog-338569.html DRC CallingThe Democratic Republic of Congo. What a crazy place. We crossed over the boarder early Monday morning and the difference between Rwanda and Congo was incredible. Gisenyi is a peaceful town on the water with a lot of nature and beaches. Goma on the other hand is full of people and chaotic.Goma is like a modern day Pompeii the is a huge volcano about a 20 min drive the roads are horrib http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Congo-Democratic-Republic/East/Goma/blog-336541.html Apologies for the long absence I was in the DRC for the past 5 days and the internet there is abysmally slow and the charger for the laptop stopped working. Last Thursday was Yom Kippur and seeing as there are no synagogues in Kigali I thought that going to the genocide museum would be a good place for reflection etc. The museum is really amazing and incredibly moving. It is split into three se http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Rwanda/Province-de-L-Ouest/Gisenyi/blog-336121.html Muraho from Kigali So you might have guessed that Muraho is hello in Kinyarwanda. I landed in Kigali last night after a pleasant 10 hour flight from London via Brussels despite being stuck in a middle seat. I read Water for Elephants which was recommend to me while I was in Dublin it was great I also recommend it. There was also some horrible movie with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon about t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Rwanda/Ville-de-Kigali/Kigali/blog-332306.html Hello AllWelcome to my travel blog. I am sitting in a coffee shop in Notting Hill at the moment trying to organize my life before I set off for Kigali Rwanda next week. Rather than writing emails to everyone I'll be updating this blog hopefully semiregularly throughout the year as I travel. That is about it for now I fly to Africa next Tuesday so I'll update some time next week http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Notting-Hill/blog-329724.html