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NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 6 May 2008 | Views [1988] | Comments [3]
Today I collected my transport and home for the next two months. After a leisurely start at the hotel and another mahuusive breakfast we were collected by taxi and taken to the depot. The company I hired with are called 'Jucy' which I still find amusing.... Read more >
Tags: driving, history, hitchhikers, shopping, swimming, the great outdoors, walking
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 25 Apr 2008 | Views [2268] | Comments [1]
My tour from Adelaide to Alice springs turned out to be a fantastic week. As I said previously, I couldn't get on a tour before Friday the 18th, which was disappointing as I was bored with Adelaide, but it turned out to be so lucky as the group of people ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, animals, history, mountains, sightseeing, the great outdoors, walking
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | Views [33394]
Tuesday morning Nick, Katie and I went and walked the city and used the free tourist shuttle bus to get around some parts of the city. The feel of this place is really nice, similar to Sydney with old and new buildings mixed together nicely and a very ... Read more >
Tags: animals, history, sightseeing, walking
THAILAND | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008 | Views [4172] | Comments [3]
This afternoon I went for a walk around Chiang Mai old town, which is inside the moat and what is left of the old perimiter wall that marked the edge of the town many years ago. The Pae Gate is the center to the main back packers and pubs area now, ... Read more >
Tags: history, sightseeing, walking
THAILAND | Friday, 15 Feb 2008 | Views [3862] | Comments [7]
So in the afternoon, we drove up to see Hellfire pass, which is one of the deepest rock cuttings that the POW's had to make to complete the Thailand-Burma rail line in 1942-5 . Having seen the museum already, this really nailed home the mammoth task ... Read more >
Tags: history, sightseeing, walking
THAILAND | Thursday, 14 Feb 2008 | Views [1859] | Comments [2]
Today I visited the Kanchanaburi Death Railway museum and cemetery , which are within easy walking distance of my guest house (where I had the best museli, fruit & yoghurt yet for breakfast!). [ View from my room on the river ] The museum tells ... Read more >
Tags: history, sightseeing, walking
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 9 Feb 2008 | Views [3381] | Comments [4]
On Saturday we went to see the war museum in Phnom Pehn , and the killing fields just outside. I didn't really know what to expect from this, having not used a book on Cambodia or looking into it at all before my trip, and also as this recent history ... Read more >
Tags: history, sightseeing, walking
CAMBODIA | Thursday, 7 Feb 2008 | Views [3618] | Comments [5]
Tuesday morning the four of us ( David and Bex , a couple out of Vancouver, Canada & Joanie , a lone traveler also from Canada) got a tuktuk driver for the day and set off to tour the temples. (There are clickable links in the text to my pictures, ... Read more >
Tags: history, sightseeing, walking
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