Trip: Japan to UK
There are [98] stories from my trip: Japan to UK
INDIA | Saturday, 4 Sep 2010 | Views [587] | Comments [1]
A protracted exit from the Jungle Retreat led us to Mysore. There was some sort of hullabaloo along the way which delayed our bus, but we're more or less used to these things after the past four months. Ww were planning to make a short visit to a ... Read more >
INDIA | Thursday, 2 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
Hill towns and safari
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INDIA | Thursday, 2 Sep 2010 | Views [1272]
Bye bye Leelu's, a record 6 nights in the same bed, and delightful Kerala. Hello again to grim faced Tamil Nadu, a night in bleak Coimbatore and a protracted journey to catch the famed Nilgiri Express. The full railway trip, also called the toy train, ... Read more >
Tags: elephants, jungle, mishap, ooty, train
INDIA | Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
Kochi!
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INDIA | Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Views [955] | Comments [1]
[Editor's note: It might help to know that many inhabitants of Kochi and Kerala are Syrian Christians...] Upon the first day past the second ten of August O-liver and E-ma didst come unto Kochi. Unto the Police Taxi Stand didst they repair, to buy ... Read more >
INDIA | Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
Thiravananananananananthapuram
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INDIA | Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [488]
Thiruvananthapuramm, Trivendrum or Trivvy was a pleasure to arrive in, even though we were pretty grimy and tired after the overnight train. We headed straight to the Maveli cafe, a marvelous spiral building (though a cafe built on a spiral has some ... Read more >
INDIA | Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [522]
A comfortable (even by 1st world standards) train brought us to Madurai for a flying visit en route to Thiravananthapuram. Stumbling out of the station into the hot night air was interesting, the small town feeling much more alive than the metropolis ... Read more >
INDIA | Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
Small stop at the temple town
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INDIA | Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 | Views [545]
Impressive, Instantaneous, Imperious, Impulsive, Interesting, Incredible India Invidious, Intractable, Insolent, Intimidating, Infuriating, Impossible India ...and that's just the start of the 'I's. It's a little late, thanks to the nature of the ... Read more >
INDIA | Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
KL airport and the first blast from India
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CHINA | Saturday, 14 Aug 2010 | Views [612] | Comments [1]
Getting from place to place has been a constant driver for this trip, as we're always heading off to somewhere new soon. What's also different is the linear nature of it - as we're not circling like many others are, goodbyes are always final and we ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Saturday, 14 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
KL
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THAILAND | Friday, 13 Aug 2010 | Views [585]
At first, the transformation in the scenery was dramatic - the jagged hills and verdant forests of Japan gave way to the open plains of north China and as we barrelled down through that vast country more and more lush greenery started to develop around ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Thursday, 12 Aug 2010 | Views [392]
It's been great watching how the people change as we move from region to region, slowly shifting from Chinese influence to Indian. The crossing from Japan to China was the longest and appropriately marked the biggest cutural shift. Politeness and ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 11 Aug 2010 | Views [698] | Comments [1]
Coming up to the end of South East Asia and the closing of a chapter in our trip we've decided to do some special updates comparing things and talk about the trip itself rather than a simple account of how we spend our lives...this first one takes the ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Friday, 6 Aug 2010 | Views [1889]
One of the joys of travelling is to be able to revel in being in a jungle or on a remote island, and then move on before the lack of electricity, road signs, hot water or ATMs spoils the fun. For us, KL was a time of plague and pestilance (well, the ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Thursday, 5 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
Taman - it were great!
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MALAYSIA | Thursday, 5 Aug 2010 | Views [1399] | Comments [4]
Taman Negara We caught a boat off the Perhentians, then a taxi from Kuala Besut to Tanah Merah, which was viewed with some surprise by our guesthouse's owners, who thought it odd to go to "really the middle of nowhere". First impressions ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Thursday, 5 Aug 2010 | Views [1537]
The passengers on the mini-bus to Penang were a mixed bag, some talkative travellers, not so talkative locals and crazy bus driver. 10 baht each for 'overtime' at the border, and we were in Malaysia! Penang was a real treat - not just as an escape ... Read more >
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