Fires, storms, wars, floods, disease...
Check this honeymoon experience out. If there is a prize for the most disaster packed honeymoon, this couple should get it.
A Swedish couple on a four-month honeymoon managed to stumble upon six disasters on their journey, including cyclones, flooding and earthquakes.
Stefan and Erika Svanström left Sweden on 6 December last year and were first stranded in Munich, Germany, due to the snowstorms that hit Europe...
Honeymooners stumble upon six disasters
Reply to this This couple really win the gold medal dont they - great to see their amazing attitudes.
Ive never technically had to flee anything but I seem to attract political demonstrations - 1989 I was living in HK and was supposed to be in Beijing on June 9 but after having been slightly trapped in protests in HK decided not to push my luck. Went from there to Kashmir and had an idyllic few months on a houseboat on Lake Sirinagar until the sound of gunfire got too much.
Fast forward a few years - 11 Oct 2002 had a drink at the Sari club in Bali on my 24 hour no fly stop after diving out on the islands - the night before the Sari Club was blown up, 2008 - Lae/Port Moresby riots, 2009 - Bangkok Redshirts and again in Apr 2010 transiting through BKK so decided not to go into Bangkok city and diverted south to the islands and had a lovely peaceful time.
Reply to this Not exactly fled, but had to take a flight....
Whilst we were in Pokhara the Maoists decided to ban all travel, threatening to shoot anyone seen using a vehicle. So we had to cancel our 12hr road trip to Kathmandu, taking a Buddha Air flight instead.
So, thanks to the Maoists. we missed bumping along in a sweltering bus and instead flew past breathtaking views if the Himalayas
and had more spare time to explore Kathmandu.
Three cheers for the Maoists 😊
Reply to this In 2007, on our around the world trip---
We encountered some floods in Vietnam. The town of Hue was knee deep in water. Later on the train to Nha Trang the tracks of our train were washed out. After waiting 20 hours we finally hired a cab and made it to Nha Trang safely.
We were supposed to fly into Mynmar the morning the Japanese photographer was killed in all the turmoil. At the last minute we stayed in KL. I guess that was a near miss. Glad we didn't go. They had a real mess for a few weeks.
Reply to this I was on holiday in northern Spain and I found a huge tornado in Cantabria and it is not common in this country.<snip>
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Flood - whilst camping at Mount Mee last January 2011. We got stranded and couldn't flee. The Park Rangers came to our rescue 😊
Snow Storm - hit us on our way to Milford Sound New Zealand last September 2010.
Got bogged in the snow then hit by a tour bus !
Earthquake - fled from the
constant tremors whilst in Christchurch NZ (September 2010)
Bush Fires - whilst
camping at Mount Mee in September 2009. Then got hit by a duststorm when we got home the next day.
** Also survived a 7.6 magnitude earthquake which claimed more than 1600 souls in the Philippines.
Reply to this I was in Cusco when the torrential rains hit early last year, we didn't flee like most tourists but when it abated we ventured out and witnessed the sheer heartbreak caused by the mudslides, we took a bus a few days later to Puno and saw the hundreds of plastic lean-tos that had become home to thousands, We stayed and the tourists literally stopped coming, The funny thing was the sun came out along with multiply wild flowers, we had a great time because it was so quiet but to the detriment of the poor local businesses. For a week helicopters filled the sky ferrying the stranded from Aguas Calientes, It took months for the tourists to come back.
We were in Northern Chile whilst in bed 1 night we heard the sound of a train coming towards us, we jumped out of bed and ran to the door just as the whole room started shaking, the epicenter was 50kms away but was deep enough not to cause much damage but it sure as hell scared the life out of me
Reply to this In response to: Msg #133346 I read about this and was also really impressed by these people's attitude, they took it in their stride, hopefully the riotous start to their marriage means that all the bad stuff is out of the way and they live a long happy life together
Reply to this After having a traveling experience i would like to share that I was being fledded by height, but now after having such a good experience of travel now I don’t got fled by height even I have taken lots of task in air. Thank you so much.
Reply to this According to my boyfriend, I come accross so many world disasters that I have to be causing them. I dont think I encountered more than any traveller who has travelled on and off for 23 years has.
I tend to hide out, rather than flee though, because it generally has seemed the safer thing to do.
I hid in my hotel room in Cuba, listening to the hotel staff in the courtyard praying and rattling rossery beads, as a horricane tore accross the country.
I hid out on an island in Uganda, because there was a war on. The island had no electricity or running water, and at the time it was not so easy to get there, so I figured the war wouldnt bother going to the trouble.
A volcano errupted when I was on my way to Quito, Ecuador and all flights to there were stopped. I took a detour to Peru instead.
etc
It was just a few months before I went to Thailand in 2006, when the coup happened. I have been to Thailand a few more times since then. A few months before going there on every time, some political crisis happened. I am due to fly to Thailand in just 2 and half months, and right on schedule, the following is in todays news.
Thai lawmaker shot, fueling election violence fear
My boyfriends comment about what is in todays news is as follows.
I swear it's you, somehow :D
You'll be in the dictionary under Disasters, tTsunami, earthquake, revolution, MelFla :D
Reply to this Ok-- I'm laughing now.
Maybe you could convince world governments that this is true and you could be paid to stay at home!
Just thinking......
Reply to this ... you could be paid to stay at home!
I must say, there are worse ways to make a living. I like that idea. If I stay at home for say 10 months, I wonder if it would earn me enough money for a trip someplace. :D
Reply to this Hey--- I had not thought of that....yes, I'll bet that would work!
Reply to this Mel--- you haven't caused this Volcano to erupt in Iceland have you?
Reply to this That's one of the problems that you will have to deal with. You can't travel without a passport. You can't get a passport. You can't travel.
Reply to this Just lived through the Bangkok flood. It was the longest, most drawn out and anticlimactic disaster ever. Thank God I live in inner BKK though, or things would've been much worse.
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