Blogs from Asia - page 14879

So Carolyn left today at around 1pm. It was sad to see her leave and I'm sure she was sad to leave too. It kinda sucks to wake up in the morning after your last night out on the beach we people you met, take your last swim, and enjoying the stressfree life and have to leave it behind to go back to work... Phew.. that was a long sentence. WEll I hope she enjoyed her trip as much as I'm enjoying mine. I'm now on my own from now on and really looking forward to this new adventure ahead of me. Right now it's still the same, doign nothing on the beach and still enjoying it. There's another guy staying at the same "huts" as me, Bart.. another fellow Canuck, so we're pretty much just ... read more

Dus hier ben ik weer. De meiden gaan weer op stap. Waar ik heen wilde gaat helaas niet door want de weg terug is afgesloten. Gister zijn we naar groot madurodam geweest. Eigenlijk nog heel leuk ook. We waren er wat laat dus straks gaan we misschien weer terug. En misschien naar de zoo op safari. Je snapt dat ik niet meer nadenk en het maar gewoon over me heen laat komen. Gister avond veel te veel gegeten (fried noodle met sate) en met buikpijn even gaan liggen lezen op bed. Ik las het innerlijke conflict dus uren later werd ik weer wakker. Jeetje wat heb ik geslapen. Eten is hier een bezigheid die niet 3 keer per dag maar zeker 6 keer per dag intensief word beoefend. Van snacks tot hele maaltijden langs de weg. ... read more

Tomorrow we get on our cruise to Vietnam. If it's like the last cruise we will have access to the internet. ... read more

Vietnam We have been in Vietnam for a month now, although we have seen a good few things we've really liked we are ready to move on. Vietnam is very westernised and didn't appeal to us unlike the other South East Asian countries we've been through. Part of this could be due to looking forward to Borneo, meeting up with friends from home, and South Africa before we get home in a month!!! We started our trip in Ho Chi Minh City, where I dont think we did it justice, but we chilled out for a few days and caught up with Carole and Marie, (friends we'd previously met in Laos) and saw some of the horrors of Agent Orange in the war remnants museum. We also saw the internationally recognised photograph named "The Girl ... read more

Tuesday morning Nino and I left early for a day trip to the Pearl Farm Resort on Samal Island. The boat left at 8am and took about 45 minutes, the resort is at the end of the island so it's a reasonably long trip considerng how close Samal Island is to Davao City (DC). Upon arriving we received a welcome drink of iced tea, we then claimed a outdoor Nippa hut to put our things and went for a swim, it was high tide and the water was very clean and refreshing. After swimming we played 8 ball in the games room (2 - 1 my way) and then toured the resort in one of the resort taxis. We decided to have an early lunch, the buffet was excellent, my favourte was the Lapu Lapu fllets ... read more