Blogs from Asia - page 14806

Its 1am Singapore time and I am wandering around the airport in a daze. As far as airports go this aint a bad one, it has become like a second home for me as I have travelled through here 4 or 5 times now. Singapore is the half way mark of the flight from Australia but due to waiting time and time zone changes it will be 21 hours between boarding the Qantas domestic flight to Melbourne from Adelaide Airport to disembarking in Dubai. I asked the girl at the check in counter to put me with people I could talk to instead I got a family of Slovenes who couldnt speak english so spent the whole trip by myself, to top that off the movies they were showing I had already seen. Emirite airlines has ... read more

With our trip into Lhasa all arranged and departure dates set we had enough time to spend a day or so more in Dali and so headed up the hill to stay at the Higherland Inn. Taking the scenic (lazy) option, we caught the chairlift up to the Inn - but the view was spectacular and it was a nice gentle ride. The Higherland Inn was great - the staff were friendly, the blankets were warm, and the family dinners each evening were awesome. Our first afternoon we set off on a short walk - about 12kms altogether but mainly flat so not too bad. We walked around the mountain to the South via the Cloud Path to the Seven Dragon Pools - a beautiful waterfall which cascades over the rocks, leaving seven pools of icy ... read more

20 April 06 Thurs kandi still a bit off this morning...with cold...so stayed in hostel....joyjoy and i went to the field ganj clinic again...it's an antenatal clinic today...and joyjoy got to do some pregnancy examination...none for me though...they're a bit more conservative here.... then went to a home visit....basically just follow the staff workers go to some nearby neighbourhood...and register the household and see if anyone need medical attention or will soon need...and check if the kids had vaccination...the area we went to were poor but some were a bit better off....sometimes we were offered water...sometimes tea...sometimes some snacks....tried to decline...but sometimes they insist...so had to take a bit... took a bit of cheese....india's cheese is a bit different...tasted like mild powder compressed into a block...and it looked a bit dodgy....so took small bite and ... read more

As you know, I am now in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province and hundreds of kilometers from the Dragon’s Backbone and the Longji Rice Terraces. Now, I could have gotten here the easy way, by going back south to Guilin and catching a train to Chengdu. It would have taken two days and would have been very easy. However, I decided to do it the hard way. The hard way, and you will need a very detailed map of China that includes lots of small towns in northern Guangxi and southern Guizhou provinces to follow along, to make my way to another railroad town, Guiyang. Anyway, I woke up early on the third day in Ping-An, and made my way down to the bus, which left at about 9 am. The bus headed to Longsheng, ... read more

img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3085/97/200/DSC_6356.jpg" border="0" alt=""We decided to change hotels because, well because of several reasons. img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3085/97/200/DSC_6281.jpg" border="0" alt=""It all started with the broken bed lamps. There was only one working bulb in the center of the room. It wasn't too bad during the day but at night it felt like a prison cell. I went down to ask the owner if we could move one room over. She came up to confirm the lights were not working and said she'd send her husband up to fix it. (This is the way these things are run. It's a wife/husband team. He's the fix-it guy and she takes the money, just like in America.) Anyway it's about 8:00 p.m. and ... read more