Blogs from Asia - page 13038

We practically based our whole planning for the Asian leg of our journey on getting to India in time before it gets to hot, and most importantly, getting in a decent desert camel safari. Apparently in April it can get as hot as 48 degC and by May giant pythons slither out of their underground holes in the sand for their Summer break. At this time in March however, there was nothing like that to contend with. We had a 35km jeep ride from Jaisalmer - which is itself in the middle of the Great Thar Desert - to a spot near a small village even more in the middle of the desert. We had three extremely nice guides: Khan 1 was young and friendly, Khan 2 who was old and friendly and -sorry I can't ... read more

Dear Parents, Sorry to disappoint you. There is no update on your child's activity today. No news actually means good news. I remembered receiving 11 phone calls from the students during the first home-stay, telling me that they wanted to go back to hostel. This time round, we received only one phone call, from Hui Jun's Buddy. Hui Jun wasn't feeling well today after lunch, and Mr Chew and her Buddy's parents brought her to see a doctor. There was nothing serious, just mild gastric flu. This evening, we brought her back to hotel to stay with the teachers. She has taken her medicine and is now resting. I'm glad to say that I'm really proud of the students, especially the non-Chinese students. Their attitudes have improved tremendously and are beginning to adapt to the cultural ... read more

We awake early in our grunge hole and find ourselves some half decent accommodation, just off the Khao San Road. Its betters but we soon learn that the air con is crap and we really need air con here its baking! Its not so much hot its just really really muggy, just walking to the toilet i get a sweat on, hehe nice mental image for you all there! So anyway after the house move we get down to being touristy and start visiting all the sights, which mainly consist of temples!! You'll love me for this but i've just posted my Lonely Planet back home so i can't actually tell you the names of the temples we saw -wasn't that clever of me!! Perhaps i'll just describe them to you! Well we start our journey ... read more

We loved phnom penh instantly we were a bit scared cause so many people we met did not like Cambodia not sam and sean the total opposite in fact they truly are an amazing pepople its frightening to learn about their very recent history sickening Pol pot was one evil man i think some people find it so very difficult because the poverty is so obvious the khmer rouge took over the Country i think in the late 70's after the americaians left he killed anbody that was educated doctors ,teachers everyone, kids were made kill their parents he wanted to make a year zero similiar to that of Hitler but, much worse we visited the Killing fields this is a very eery place there is a display cabinet that holds 8985 no names just in ... read more

So, I know I'm a little behind in updating this blog! The last month's been a lot of fun and quite a learning experience. I wanted to get my head around everything and take time to upload lots of pictures and write a few stories. As can be expected from a trip like this, the itinerary has changed quite a bit. But let me first share a few of my experiences from this last month... Mar 10 - 16 Dharamsala/McLeod Ganj It was a long trip up from Pushkar to McLeod Ganj - 3 hour local bus to a train station in the middle of nowhere Rajasthan to a taxi, 3 hour wait at the station, then a 17 hour train up through Punjab. We've been traveling in the non-AC sleeper 'reserved' class of trains ... read more