Blogs from Asia - page 14643

I awoke just before docking, and got my things together before barging my way out onto the jetty and straight through the touts to the town beyond. I found a place to stay and a place to dive - the two most important things! I have wanted to do some specialty courses for a while - Enriched Air and Deep Diving and decided that with Ko Tao being a famous place to learn that this would be where I would do these courses. Of course the flip side is that that meant spending all day in the classroom.... I had forgotten her cheesy, poor quality and generally crap the PADI videos are, but I was soon reminded. My breakfast pork steamed bun kept me running until lunch - Tom Yum with seafood. For those who have ... read more

Amarapura is another capital full of temples, stupas, and sundry ruins. And neither hell nor high water were going to make either Magdalena or myself subject ourselves to another plunk of dead bricks. Especially when there is a wonderful lake in front of us. Taugthaman Lake is a shallow pond more than a lake. There are no shortage of boats, but most of the fishermen prefer wading waist-deep in the muddy water in search of fish. Probably cooler. The only people swimming were a few kids, though it's doubtful the swim actually made them any cleaner. We wondered over U Bien's Bridge, which is rather underwhelming compared to its fame as a tourist attraction, to, as you can imagine, get to the other side of the lake. The bridge is 1.2km long and made of wood. ... read more

Greetings gang, Sorry no pictures as yet but everything seems to be going well.The bar's been abit slow at late but with the World Cup around the corner things will pick up.I have loads of ideas which will soon be put into practice.Having my experiance in bar and restaurants has helped and now i'm trying to plan a promotion that should blow the rest out the water and leave one bar drowning.We've been having problems with this dickhead next door who likes to copy other people's work.Nevermind enough of me banging on,not much has been happening.I started a new school 3 weeks ago and it's going well although my throat is sore every Friday from shouting too much.Other then that I've been really lazy and sleeping every moment I get. Anyway guys I'll extend this when ... read more

DAS URLAUBSPARADIES...... übt noch immer diese unbändige anziehungskraft in uns aus.......dort scheint ein gewaltiger magnet vergraben zu sein.......! morgen (01.10.08) gehts ja tatsächlich wieder ab nach indien!! obwohl bisher nicht geplant, schiebt sich mehr und mehr der gedanke .....mmmhhhhhhbaaaali....in die hirnwindungen und die chancen stehen gut, daß es uns diesmal wieder dorthin verzarrt! wenn wir uns die bilder ansehen und die tolle zeit im hibiscus cottage in ubud wieder in erinnerung kommt, meinen wir, dort urlaub vom reisen machen zu müssen! wenn wir schon in der ecke der welt sind........! und für heute liebe leute, lass ich einfach die bilder sprechen! was soll man schon groß sagen über diese insel, wenn auch nur irgendwie möglich, muß man einfach hin! und im blog ...bali, wieder einmal auf der insel der götter.... könnt ihr unsere impressionen nachlesen. apropo ... read more

We got a coach down to Hoi An today via Danang. Our new hotel is fantastic aswell and it has a pool!! Hoi An is a nice place and the main thing here is tailors. you can get absolutely anything made to fit here and they have copies of catalogues to make you anything or you could bring your own design. It's famous for suits but i'll not be needing a business suit for at least the next year so not bothering with that. I did get a dress, pair of cropped trousers and shorts made to measure though for a grand total of US$30. The boys and a couple of the girls got suits too. Yesterday was Liz's 26th birthday so after shoppping we went out for a meal and some drinks. the bars here ... read more