Our trip in numbers!

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Hello blog followers! I bet you have missed our regular exciting updates! Well fear no longer, we are returning for one final entry! Granted it's a bit late but it took us so long to calculate that it just had to be shared...so here goes, for all the blog entries you read this is what it all broke down into:

General and Major/Exciting Transport:
139 days
6 countries (if you don't include Dubai!)
3 land border crossings
9 (10 for JK) flights
9 overnight buses
4 overnight trains
3 intercity trains
22 intercity buses
2 long distance tuk tuks
8 boats (as means of transportation)
5 'sightseeing' boats
1 raft
1 paraglide
4 motorbikes
1 'two planks of wood balanced over a boat'
1 camel ride
1 elephant trek

Everyday transport:
27 metro journeys on 3 different metro systems
33 Indian rickshaws
1 Thai tuk tuk
3 Thai songthaews
4 cycle rickshaws
9 Cambodian remorques
11 4x4/Minibus
21 taxis
5 cars
14 local buses
1 bus that we had to stop and get off just as it was leaving the bus station

Accommodation:
33 hotels
4 shacks/beach huts
2 hostels
1 Ashram

Visits:
2 wonders of the world
65 religious sites
29 UNESCO World Heritage Sites/Museums/Palaces
5 zoos/national parks/aquariums
8 cinema trips
7 beaches


Purchases:
38 Jewellery/clothes/shoes for JK
33 Jewellery/clothes/shoes for KC
5 items lost
19 items broken

Medical:
8 trips to the pharmacy
1 emergency root canal treatment
1 bout of food poisoning
4 courses of malarone
1 vaccination which didn't work
2 pots of Tiger Balm used

Admin:
5 visas needed
10 different currencies used
14 stamps in our passports
6 languages spoken

Random:
1 court case attended
1 wedding invitation
27 books read
3 guidebooks
1 invaluable phrasebook
1 snake almost stood on
37 blog entries
8 families we were 'adopted' by

Uncountable:
Number of bites
Litres of sweat lost
Km walked
Photos taken of us by random people
Litres of water drunk
Number of chais drunk
Number of stairs climbed
Number of times we wrote out our passport details
Number of times we haven't understood/been understood
Amount of time spent being confused
Number of animals seen
Number of times heard 'same same but different'
Number of smelly toilets encountered
Time spent laughing and having an amazing time!

And finally: time spent calculating all of these: one very long 25 hour bus journey (including a rather long stop at the mechanics) between Xian and Beijing!

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