Trip: Around the world
There are [99] stories from my trip: Around the world
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 22 Mar 2009 | Views [435]
Dehli Arrived in Dehli a few days before my brother and mother were due from the UK and as in true Nagra style my brother managed to give me the wrong date of his arrival so i had some time to kill in Dehli (having been there a few times before) ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
Malaysia
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UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009 | Views [390]
What i liked about the Cameron Highlands 1. Cool mountain climate - a welcome relief from the humidity of malaysia 2 Breathtaking green mountain scenery - the cultivated tea plantations make the mountains look like they have been covered with a lush ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 16 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 16 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 15 Feb 2009 | Views [263]
Kualar Lumpar is fantastic and I was very pleasantly surprised. Smaller than singapore and not so clean but so very vibrant, colourful, laid back and lively. Once again it is quite ethnically diverse. The City itself is dispersed with some colonial-esque ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 15 Feb 2009 | Views [249]
A humid sunless but clean and friendly city. The skyline at night time reminds me of Hong Kong in as much as all the sky scrapers as lit up. The 6 quid or so i paid for an after dusk river cruise was well worth the view - albeit that the ride lasted ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 8 Feb 2009 | Views [363]
Yuk. Other than the harmless jellyfish in the beatiful warm grean sea i had a magical time on Krabi Island. Didnt really do much other than chill out on the beach and by the poolside reading but i had a few wonderful days there i wont forget for a long ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 1 Feb 2009 | Views [278]
1st feb - Sorry for not writing sooner and this will be a quick update as been busy lately - in a good way. Flew up to Chang Mai which is a lovely old walled city in the north of thailand with some great mountain views. Most people come up here to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 23 Jan 2009 | Views [498]
Despite my reservations about Bangkok I have to say its quite an amazing City. It has everything really - Wats (temples), a palace, ambience, skytowers, markets, a river, sky trains, an elephant walking down the high street, pld men with young thai girls, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 16 Jan 2009 | Views [256]
to my shame i committed the crime of all crimes. However let me explain. I was due to catch the slow boat to Thailand from Luang Prabang at 8am. Up till now the weather had been fantastic but this morning and unusually it was a cold frosty morning so I ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 10 Jan 2009 | Views [325]
After a beautiful albeit a bit of a hairey bus ride from vang vieng through a gorgeous mountain range i arrived in charming luang prabang, a world heritage town full of old french colonial buildings surrounded by lush green mountains along the mekong ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 3 Jan 2009 | Views [328]
Vientienne is a lovely laid back capital city along the Mekong River. Other than temples and visiting a golden stupa (which essentially represents laos sovereignty) there isnt much to do other than chill out by the river front or as i did - go for a ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 1 Jan 2009 | Views [412]
a few new things i have done: 1. Riden a motorbike (well moped actually) 2. Had an accident on my motorbike (nothing serious - just managed to accidentally turn the throttle when i meant to break as i tried to park resulting in the bike going into a spin ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 25 Dec 2008 | Views [312]
Well I am still here....8 nights later on this Christmas morning. Woke up to catch the beautiful sunrise over the Mekong River listening to John Lennon's "So this is Christmas..." song (on my neighbours ipod). Again I watched fisherman returning ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 21 Dec 2008 | Views [337]
Well I ended up heading South rather than north in the end from Savannakhet! Savannakhet itself was a nice little riverside town with old decaying french colonial buildings. Everyone was so friendly and its a small enough place to walkaround. After ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 13 Dec 2008 | Views [255]
I had a few days spare before my visa runs out on 17th March so I decided to head down the coast a bit as I cut it out previously due to bad weather. I decided against taking the overnight bus which takes some 24 hours to get to Hoi An. In the main ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 11 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008 | Views [299]
I didnt think it could really get any better than Halong Bay..... After a tax, overnight train and bus I eventually arrived at Bac Ha Market near Sapa in the northern mountains of Vietnam. It was a market like no other I had seen. The market operates ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Views [262]
Booked a little boat trip Halong Bay and Cat Ba island from my hostel and what a trip. Sun, sea, amazing limstone karsts, swimming, kayaking, starfish, coral, monkeys, sea kites, black storks and the highlight for me - rock climbing!! After a 3 hour ... Read more >
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