Trip: Round the World 2008-9
There are [144] stories from my trip: Round the World 2008-9
MALAYSIA | Thursday, 9 Jul 2009 | Views [3590] | Video
A supremely confident muslim woman in a headscarf ushered all the bleary eyed tourists off the bus in Kuala Besut at about 5 in the morning. She lead us towards the harbour and to an office where they sold boat tickets to the island. She was rushing ... Read more >
Tags: beach, diving, hut, island, snorkelling, wildlife
MALAYSIA | Friday, 3 Jul 2009 | Views [2492]
The flight touched down at Kuala Lumpur's Low Cost Carrier Terminal, or LCCT for short. No-one had mentioned that the timezone had changed so we thought the flight was an hour early, but in fact it was us who was out of kilter. It couldn't have ... Read more >
Tags: cinema, city, kenny rogers!!, shopping
THAILAND | Wednesday, 1 Jul 2009 | Views [8079] | Video
It's a very easy system when you get a ferry in Thailand. They give you a colour coded badge with the destination written on it, each destination has a different colour. If you so much as look at the wrong queue or try to go in the wrong direction ... Read more >
Tags: ferry, jungle, trekking, wildlife
THAILAND | Tuesday, 30 Jun 2009 | Photo Gallery
Bangkok, Koh Tao, Koh Pang-An, Khao Sok
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THAILAND | Thursday, 25 Jun 2009 | Views [2593]
The crossing over to Koh Pha Ngan was ludicrously rough. People were puking their guts up into the sea at the stern of the catamaran while it see-sawed in and out of the waves. It was too rough to sail but the boat was full to bursting and there was ... Read more >
Tags: beach, hut, island
THAILAND | Sunday, 21 Jun 2009 | Views [2318]
Once I had finished the course I wanted more. The sensation of being underwater is incredibly addictive. Terry suggested that a good way to feed the habit would be to do the next course, Advanced open water. You get to do 5 dives, each with a different ... Read more >
Tags: beach, diving, fire, island, party, quad bike
THAILAND | Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009 | Views [2065] | Comments [1]
The bus though was a pleasuredome of luxury compared to the insomniac 'sleeping bus' we had been used to in Vietnam. We were originally thinking of taking a train to Chumpon and then a night ferry over but Lompraya were offering a bus and a high speed ... Read more >
Tags: boat, diving, island, trapeze
THAILAND | Saturday, 13 Jun 2009 | Views [1407]
The Air Asia flight touched down in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport early and our bags were waiting for us at the carousel. The girl I had persuaded to smuggle my pen knife into Thailand for me came good and handed it over once she picked up her bag.... Read more >
Tags: decision, dentist, flight, movie
VIETNAM | Thursday, 11 Jun 2009 | Views [1905]
Following the tour crowd off the bus from Halong Bay lead us to the Blue Star Hotel on Bat Dan Street. They tried to give us a really pokey windowless room for $12 but on declining a much better room with Air Con and wifi became available for the ... Read more >
Tags: barber, fan, guard, heatwave, history, mausoleum, moped tour, movie, power cut
VIETNAM | Monday, 8 Jun 2009 | Views [1100]
We didn't get much sleep due to the generator but we got enough. It turned out that the $65 couple's AC didn't work anyway. After a simple breakfast we stopped for 10 minutes to allow those who wanted to jump off and have a swim. The American and English ... Read more >
Tags: bribery, singing
VIETNAM | Sunday, 7 Jun 2009 | Views [2915] | Comments [2]
Day two of the Halong bay tour started surprisingly similarly to day one. Claire was in the shower when the phone rang. The voice said ”Finish! Leave hotel now!” I looked at my watch: 7.10 and we had been told to meet at 7.30. Ignoring what had been ... Read more >
Tags: beach, boat, canoe, island, island, tour, trekking
VIETNAM | Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 | Views [2081]
It was an inauspicious start to the trip. We had slept through the alarm and were awoken by a heavy thumping on the paper thin bedroom door. The thoughtful receptionist had given us a 20 minute headstart before the promised air conditioned minivan ... Read more >
Tags: boat, cave, island, karaoke, mate, passport, tour
VIETNAM | Friday, 5 Jun 2009 | Views [1597]
The
first impressions of Hanoi in the taxi were that of a French city. It
was after all the colonial capital of French Indochina so it
shouldn't have been too surprising to be passing through ... Read more >
Tags: city, moped
VIETNAM | Thursday, 4 Jun 2009 | Photo Gallery
Vietnam - North
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VIETNAM | Wednesday, 3 Jun 2009 | Views [2214]
It
was only a four hour journey to Hue from Hoi An but we still had the
bizarre “sleeping bus” to semi-horizontally not sleep in for
the journey. We allowed ourselves to be taken to the suggested
guesthouse ... Read more >
Tags: citadel, culture, hangover, history
VIETNAM | Sunday, 31 May 2009 | Views [2473]
We
lucked out with the bus to Hoi An – it was quite a bit more modern
and seemed to have been designed with passengers in mind unlike its
previous incarnations. This time there was a space for your bag
rather ... Read more >
Tags: beach, bike, tailor
VIETNAM | Thursday, 28 May 2009 | Views [32924] | Video
We
had decided to do an island tour from Nha Trang - the punters on the boat were an
eclectic mix of English gap year types, Filipino engineers working on
the soon to open Nha Trang Marriot and a few locals ... Read more >
Tags: bar, beach, boat, island
VIETNAM | Monday, 25 May 2009 | Views [3109] | Comments [7]
As
usual, the bus was late. After half an hour of waiting patiently in
the travel agency we went across the road for some beers, their
arrival, of course coinciding with that of the sleeping bus to Nha
Trang, ... Read more >
Tags: beach, casino, omelette, scam
VIETNAM | Friday, 22 May 2009 | Views [3399] | Video
Crowds of overpriced baguette-wielding hawkers thronged around the bus as the rucksacks were crammed into its belly. They had a captive market and knew it – expensive la vache qui rit baguettes for breakfast it was then. The return trip to Phnom ... Read more >
Tags: crash, history, home, moped, religion, temple, tunnel
VIETNAM | Thursday, 21 May 2009 | Photo Gallery
Vietnam - Saigon to Hoi An
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CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 19 May 2009 | Photo Gallery
Phnom Pehn & Angkor Wat
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CAMBODIA | Monday, 18 May 2009 | Views [2935] | Comments [1]
As with Laos, we had been learning that time is a bit of a variable concept in Cambodia, so we weren't worried when the minibus failed to pick us up at the agreed time. Perhaps it was a ploy – the owner (what he owned was not mentioned, I assumed ... Read more >
Tags: hospital, temple, tuk tuk
LAOS | Thursday, 14 May 2009 | Photo Gallery
Laos - Pakse & Si Phan Don
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CAMBODIA | Thursday, 14 May 2009 | Views [1580]
The storm had blown itself out by dawn and we left Don Det, as we had arrived, on a long tail. The holidays were over and the aftermath of the rains were very much in evidence in Nakasang on the mainland. The dusty street had turned into a mudbath ... Read more >
Tags: border, history, museum, storm
LAOS | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [3438] | Comments [4]
The Champasak Palace Hotel in Pakse was built by Prince Boun Oumna Champasak with, supposedly, a room for each of his concubines. Also known as the thousand room pavillion, it's built in Laotian style, looks a bit like a wedding cake, has 1 King ... Read more >
Tags: hammock, holiday, hotel, island, river, wildlife
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