http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 06:13:32 +0000 Sun, 26 May 2013 06:13:32 +0000 Mustang 2800m Kagbeni 2850mI39m so looking forward to walking again. Lazy start to the morning only 10km to walk. Watch the planes coming in and leaving. Over breakfast we meet a couple of Australians who have just finished the Upper Mustang they loved it it was very quiet incredible experience etc. Leave the Tilicho just before 9. The main street is deserted except for some cow traf http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/blog-787827.html I write this blog almost 18 months after arriving home from Hong Kong so am relying on my memory along with our photographic record of events. We took little to no diary notes during our 10 day stay. Something I now wished we were more diligent with at the time. I remember arriving into Hong Kong on the airplane and gazing out the windows at the lit skyline it was late in the night on New Year http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Hong-Kong-Island/blog-787815.html I explored Ayutthaya on foot a bit on Friday wandering around in about a milewide radius of my guesthouse to see some of the local sights. Ayutthaya is a busy little city and I got something of a feel for central Thai city life. I stopped at a pleasant woodpaneled restaurant for a breakfast of shrimp and noodles before heading to the train station for a train to Lop Buri.Lop Buri is another hi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-787776.html After finishing my job I went to Borneo for a few days and was planning on travelling through Vietnam when I got back. Whilst I was there my girlfriend called me to tell me that she had managed to get a week off work and would like to go away somewhere with me before I left which was great. So I arrived back in Saigon first thing in the morning and had the day to sort my life out saying goo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-787759.html So my time working in Vietnam has come to an end. The last few months have been incredibly busy hence why I havent really been updating the blog. Also school really has been the same old same old with nothing really of much interest to report. My weekends too are normally spent recovering from the long week and not really getting up to anything exciting just trying to relax and recover http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-787758.html Arrived into tropical Kuala Lumpur staying in the centre of the bustling Chinatown district lined with streetstalls and markets and dining on seafood at an excellent Malaysian restaurant. Early the next morning took a coach up to the Cameron Highlands driving along steep roads lined with a huge panoply of election posters the majority depicting the blue scales of the incumbent Barisan Nasiona http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Taman-Negara-National-Park/blog-787756.html After a great stay in Labuan Bajo we landed on Bali without getting our feet wet and went straight on to the small island of Lembongan where we stayed for 10 nights. Regarding wet feet a plane from the same airline as ours missed the landing zone and ended up in the ocean. Fortunately no one got serious hurt as far as we are aware.I was a bit excited about returning to Lembongan after spending http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Nusa-Lembongan/blog-787755.html Do Udaipuru sme dosli skoro rano o 430.Z Bombaju sme vyrazali o 1100.Pytam sa spolusediaceho inda ci je toto udaipurvraj nienakoniec ma sofer ohlasuje aby som vystupil. Fakt inteligencia indov.Po vystypeni do velkej zimy sa na mna hned vrhli riksaciprva ponuka za 300rupidalsia uz len za 200rupii do mesta. Cvoci. Cez cestu som skocil na plackynic mocaspon caj zahrial.Vytipovane ubytko bolo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-787753.html For the May Holiday we ended up going to Guilin Yangshou for 7 days.Day 1 To GuilinWe caught our flight to Shanghai and the connecting flight to Guilin Airport arriving in the evening. We caught a shuttle bus into the city and taxi39ed to our hotel. The taxi39s were all asking extravagant pricies upwards of 10x normal rates. And we ended up giving up and settling on 30 RMB as no taxi w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Yangshuo/blog-787752.html Rano holenie a sprcha vo vrelej vodeta mi fakt bodlabo v noci je tu riadna kosa. Izba bola uplne nahovnopresvitalo mi dnu svetloboli ocut same hlasyledvaj som zaspal.Recepcny este o 800 chrapalimusel som ich zobudit aby mi vratili pasinac by som zdrhol zrejme bez platenia. Recepcny mi dal pas a zistoval ci som vlastne zaplatil izbu a furt studoval papieretak som sa priznal a zaplatili ke http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/blog-787745.html May 25 2013 Jianyang Chengdu We held a blindness prevention screening clinic at a community health center in Jianyang. These county level health centers are an important node in the battle against cataract blindness and of the screenings we did 4050 of eyes had advanced cataracts and we some some patients who had had cataract surgery with very poor results. The need was reinforced again t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-787741.html May 25 2012 Chengdu Just a quick update after a bit of silence on the blog. The silence had to do with lack of internet access or time to update the blog. Lots happened in the last few days which I39ll summarize quickly but then detail later. We completed negotiations with the hospital and were successful at coming to an agreement after some challenges. This is seen as an historic event in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-787740.html Hi AllSeems like forever since I39ve done a blog.So got a call from our foreign affairs department asking if we39d like to go on a trip to Luoxi national park in Dongkou county courtesy of the local government. Well obviously we said yes. Set off from Shaoyang at around 3pm Friday afternoon on a 2 12 hour trip from Shaoyang to Dongkou. The journey did take a little bit longer as we came ac http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hunan/Shaoyang/blog-787736.html Smarty smart phones are everywhere spreading their oomph Every Smartphone launched has one or more new feature added to make it different from its predecessor. Smartphones have changed our life and also the way we see the world. They have made our life very easy and fast. We carry the world with us The smartphone has everything to make you feel comfortable and take care of your dos. The world http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Belgaum/blog-787731.html This experience needs a blog of its own I39m currently in the first class Thai Airways Lounge. I was here before on the way to Rome but this time I got a full body massage and a shower They have a bath a shower a toilet and a massage bed all in the same room and you can close off the bathroom for when you want to get changed. There is unlimited food and drinks here and the staff are amazing http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-787729.html Do Bombaju sme dorazili o 800. Na zaciatku mesta bolo vidiet kopa chatrc a chudobycim sme isli viac do centra chudoba ustupovala ale bordel nie. Bus ma vyhodil 3km od casti Colaba a 4km od hlavnej zel.stanici.Vybral som sa pesibusom do casti colaba. Na chodnikoch sa prave umyvali indoviaovsem nie vsetciniektory uz ranajkovali resp este spali vo svojich pribytkoch. Na hlavnej ulici o murovane o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/Colaba/blog-787727.html At Aspen Adventures we aim to bring to you the most unique and spellbinding aspects of Rishikesh one of the most loved tourist destinations in India. We offer camping holidays white water rafting trips trekking and nature walks and jungle safaris to the most ardent naturists. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttarakhand/Rishikesh/blog-787717.html At Aspen Adventures we aim to bring to you the most unique and spellbinding aspects of Rishikesh one of the most loved tourist destinations in India. We offer camping holidays white water rafting trips trekking and nature walks and jungle safaris to the most ardent naturists. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttarakhand/Rudraprayag/blog-787716.html Since my last blog its been quite the opposite as it was before... I have been keeping extremely busy In the days that followed I spent a great deal of time at the University and even got to assist one of the medicalsurgical course instructors with her lecture. At the end of that week I travelled outside of where my home base is in Uttara and headed to Savar for an entire week. There was very http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Dhaka/blog-787709.html Live a complete immersive family experience in Nepal. Share your holidays with a typical Nepali family who will host you and guide you in discovery of their rites culture and believes Friendship Home Stay has established for foreign visitors who are looking for a less conventional but deeper cultural experience Friendship Home Stay provides ample opportunity to immerse oneself in an aut http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Boudhanath/blog-787708.html