Blogs from Asia - page 14606

Well it's been a while since I wrote in my blog... Only because I felt they were no longer very interesting to read and not many people were reading them either... LOL That's ok, I don't mind and don't blame you. This'll most likely be a short one anyway. So, honestly not much has really changed here. But met a few people and have been keeping busy. Got a few job opportunities, but I really don' t want to take a job just because, especially in teaching. I did it for 2 years and I didn't come here for that, so... The weather was really good last week. Hardly any rain. Here I thought Taiwan was hot & humid... pfft! Think again. This place is MUCH worse. But it's all good. So as I had spent ... read more

Hello again! This is my last day in Chiang Mai before heading to Bangkok tonight and flying into Macau, China tomorrow morning. I have really enjoyed the time here to catch up with the family and have a chance to relax. One of the highlights of course has been finally getting to meet Catherine, who I will be travelling through China with. I was also surprised to see Amy (Devenny) who I went to school with. Her sister Emily graduated this year so Amy and her husband Matt flew over from California to be at graduation. I got to go to Becca's school prom, do plenty of shopping, attend a Thai cooking course and have a few nights out inbetween! Will keep you posted on the China experience... JOY... read more

Left our hotel in Saigon at 6am to cross the border over to cambodia in a public bus. the vietnam border is pretty simple then you get on the bus again and travel 1km through no mans land to reach the cambodia border. After paying my 20US dollars for the visa and getting everything stamped about 5 times we realised that the bus had dissapeared. luckily our tour leader was there and informed us that the bus just couldn't stay at the border and had driven 2kms away - the only way to get to it was with one of the moped drivers so Elana and i squashed onto the back of a moped and held on tightly. i felt like i was doing a bit of a runner from the border! I am incredibly scared ... read more

Wow, people in Thailand really really really love their king. Yesterday me and my roomies went downtown to check out the festivities for the king's 60th anniversary holiday. There were like a billion people there. No joke, a billion. Well, all I know is I've never seen that many people in one spot in my entire life. There was a parade, speeches (no clue what about), then a candle lighting (yea, I was kinda scared about the billion people ALL having their own candle and not burning down the city...) then fireworks. Oh yea, did I mention about twenty random Thai people off the streets took pictures with us!? It was hilarious. So I'm officially in photo albums all over Asia, haha. They seriously just love foreigners here. After all of the ceremonies, they had ... read more

From Mandi back up the Kullu valley and across the Beas took us toward the Jalori Pass - a steep climb to 3222m… The ride was Poulets first real test… Vertical, dirt roads, landslides in places, rain and loaded to the gunnels with us and our luggage… It was a hairy ride, we stopped at one point to hide from the thunder storm in an abandoned camp, put on ALL of our clothes (it got fucking cold!) ate ALL of our provisions (biscuits) after Katies scare mongering tactics (“We might get cut off!”) Chris made pathetic attempts to get us water (cups in the rain, a cm of dirty water… we’ll make adventurers yet!) after a harrowing, biscuit munching 20 minutes the rain totally cleared up, the clouds parted and the sun glimmered along the edge ... read more