http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia en-us Wed, 02 Dec 09 00:07:08 +0000 Wed, 02 Dec 09 00:07:08 +0000 So im about to sum up the past 3 months in a short blog.SeptemberAdjusted to life without my Cyndibang here she is still missed but we skype whenever possible i.e. whenever I can get my lazy ass out of bed early enough as shes in Canada and the time difference sucksHad Market Day in school another day of mayhem entertaining wild kids selling way overpriced stationary and toys with fake dol http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-457505.html A sweet panorama of Maumere is sunset which situated at western area from the capital of Sikka regency. At the top of hill you can enjoy how quite a hill and how beautiful sun on the west hill in the evening. On Sundays there many people come to the beach for swimming and snorkeling there. Thatrsquos Tanjung. Opposite the beach there is a hill with a cross stone which is built by a number of http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Flores/Maumere/blog-457494.html It's been 2 months since I last blogged and I have no excuses ive simply been busy enjoying my summer and time has flown by at a crazy speed.July was HOT School was busy and same as usual the days all merge into one and so once tuesday is done with the weekend seems to arrive before you know it. The kids are all still adorable and its nice to have taught them for 6 months now as i know the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-457491.html Hello from Baan Unrak in Thailand i have been here for 8 days now and wanted to give you a quick update for everyone who has donated the total when i left sydney was just over 3 000 dollars which was an incredible effort and almost covered the program fee not including airfares insurance etc. so thankyou to everyone who contributed the orphanage is amazing. we have been working so hard http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-457471.html Day 2 Bangkok.Didn't get around to catching up on our blog yesterday so now sat in Bangkok airport waiting for our flight to Cambodia so seems a good thing to catch up on.We had one full day in Bangkok before starting our travels and today we had a mission and that was to find the standing Buddha Wat Intrawihan we have been to Bangkok twice before and on both occasions tried to find this si http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-457470.html Was soll man schon ber eine Trauminsel schreiben Phu Quoc ist das was Koh Pipi war bevor Leo bdquothe Beachldquo dort gedreht hat. Oder das was Koh Samui war bevor die Pauschaltouris es bernommen haben.Ein Rckzugsgebiet fr Naturliebhaber Aussteiger Backpacker und Hippies. Stressfreie Traumstrnde mit Kokospalmen Fisch BBQs und Bambus Bungalows. Leider stehen schon Plne fr einen Int http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/blog-457456.html Well I finally have access to a computer again. I arrived in Kochi Cochin on Friday and was met at the airport by Jijo my driver. We went to the old part of Kochi to where my hotel was. The place I stayed there was nice. The room was beautiful. I had time for a quick lunch before tour guide picked me up. I place my order...but after 30 minutes began to worry. I finally called the waiter http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-457425.html Hey Everyone we are competing in the Tourism Authority of Thailand's Ultimate Thailand Explorers Competition. We'll be using social media next week to promote Pattaya as a vacation destination. To prepare for our trip we purchased a phrase book and have started practicing to speak Thai. We used the time on a recent road trip to work on our pronounciation. As we discovered and as you will soon to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Pattaya/blog-457419.html I haven't added an entry for a couple weeks now...so I have a nice little collection of videos and photos from November to post about. Video 1 Because of the upcoming Expo Shanghai is in a frenzy to beautify the city. So that means LOTS of construction noise dust traffic jams more than usual I suppose dangerous streets....I took this video during our walk from the fabric market to Huai http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-457411.html Cambodia mostly by KerrySo.. Cambodia was our last stop in mainland S.E. Asia. It seems like we've seen a lot and we have Anyway see our next blog for our general 6 month round up.Siem Reap The Temples of AngkorAfter a 4 hour bus ride from Bangkok we walked into Cambodia from Thailand at the Aranya PrathetPoipet border in the late afternoon. To our relief it was a very quick and painless pro http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-457407.html This blog wonrsquot arouse too much interest this time around and I apologize for that. Quite honestly it is even difficult for me to write because itrsquos so boring. But here goeshelliphelliphellipTwo and a half weeks ago I went into Bangkok for arthroscopic surgery on my left shoulder. For those who know me well remember I had my right shoulder repaired three years ago. Irsquom http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-East-Thailand/Khon-Kaen/blog-457406.html Weekend avec mes collegues fin Novembre... Apres une soiree dans la city de Beijing le jeudi soir matin ... ... on s'est envole pour la province de Hunan et plus precisement la ville de Zhanggiajie... Ouaip Pas facile a prononcer... Au programme rando dans les montagnes avec des paysages a couper le souffle... C est un site qui est tres touristique mais que de la population chinoise... Re http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hunan/Zhangjiajie/blog-457397.html Thanksgiving 2009 Shanghai ChinaLast year I triumphantly concocted a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday and it involved some odd substitutions. It was quite memorable quite enjoyable but it was not quite the same.This year after much soul searching and much consternation over the budgetary implications I decided that I just had to do it. I had to buy the 100 bird technically more like 130 bu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-457396.html Habe mich heute mit Cloud getroffen einer chinesischen Travellerin die ich ber Couchsurfing kennen gelernt habe. Sie mchte mit mir gemeinsam nach Vietnam reisen. Sie stammt ursprnglich aus der Nhe von Beijing ist aber zur Zeit auf Reisen und war schon in Indien Thailand Nepal und natrlich China. Seit einem Monat ist sie in Nanning. Ich habe die Gelegenheit wahr genommen und die Sprachken http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Nanning/blog-457387.html NORTH PAKISTAN THE LAND of ADVENTURE CULTURE At the western end of the great Asian highmountains system the Karakorum Hindukush and Himalaya ranges all coverage in a landscape of truly breathtaking scale. Mountains typically rise above 6000m with more than 160 summits higher than 7000m. In the Karakorum alone 30 peaks reach higher than 7500m.Modern MountaineeringHunters were the first to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Pakistan/Northern-Areas/blog-457386.html Today was a really and I mean really slow day at work. The students are all in exams so I quite literally had NOTHING to do all day. I graded papers but you can only do that for so many hours before you want to stab the pen into your eyeballs instead. Wound up heading over to the library with the intention of talking to one of the teachers but chatted with a few students instead. They are all st http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Mie/blog-457385.html Well every summit has its descent and mine from glorious Mt. Phuket was treacherous The Emperor and Retodd got in a taxi for there 30 minute ride to the airport. I boarded a crowded mini bus that was suppose to take me to a proper bus station. Nope never happened instead I switched mini buses 3 different times and somehow arrived in Penang Malaysia 12 hours later. I might have been bitter if http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-457377.html They bite at my flesh as I lie in the water. Yellow red blue purple green silver black brown and white. A symphony of colours. Stripes and dots. Little critters with sharp incisors and large oval ones with huge puffed lips. A magnificent display a wonderland of sorts.He swims right at my mask. A fish the size of my finger but defiant as he protects his territory. A blow fish magnifies itse http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Palawan/El-Nido/blog-457367.html Hello people Addzilla here hope you are all fine. Well we made it to bangkok in 1 piece and got a taxi to Ko San road where our hotel was that we had booked when we was back home the road was closed to taxis and cars as it had gone past 5pm so we got our 1st experience of walking through hundreds of people with our heavy backpacks on wont be doing much walking with these on i can tell u that http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-457360.html After a good eight hour flight from Sydney we arrived in steamy Singapore We landed about 10pm and it was a very humid 22c. We had booked into a hostel called Sleepy Sams in Kampong Glam the muslim quarter. The hostel reception closes early so we were given the door pin code by Email and told to let ourselves in Our 'private' room was at one end of a dormitory and so we had to walk through the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-457357.html