Trip: Travels 07/08
There are [25] stories from my trip: Travels 07/08
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 | Views [328]
I left Phuket very early in the morning and had a few hours to wander around the airport in Bangkok. I am going to admit that I was fairly impressed with the airport. It was very clean and there were plenty of shops. I had my last Green curry at the ... Read more >
THAILAND | Friday, 21 Dec 2007 | Views [565]
The train to Chang Mai was the most interesting I have been on. There were no sleeping compartments and all the beds are along the sides of the compartments so in fact you are sharing a compartment with everyone. You have your own curtain to close ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
THAILAND | Wednesday, 19 Dec 2007 | Views [457]
Again.... from Nick. "The border between Cambodia and Thailand was a long steady stream of westerners, and took hours. As we waited in line, I watched a truck load of polystyrene enter Cambodia the other way, and I mused at the endless supplies ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CAMBODIA | Monday, 17 Dec 2007 | Views [589]
We left our guest house in Siam Reap and were collected in a mini bus. Now, coming from South Africa, I have seen how many people can fit into a minibus, but even I was impressed with the number of people that the cambodians managed to cram into our ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CAMBODIA | Friday, 14 Dec 2007 | Views [664] | Comments [1]
Siam Reap is going to be one of the highlights of my trip. Of all the cities I have been to, I feel like this is one of the few that I took full advantage of. Okay hotel had organised accomodation and a transfer to the Yellow Guest house upon our arrival ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CAMBODIA | Tuesday, 11 Dec 2007 | Views [342]
I am going to have to copy from our travel companion Nick for a bit. He
described our trip from Ho Chi Minh into Phnom Penh so eloquently.... and I am
sure he won't mind after that ego boost.
"We took a very long bus ride to the capital ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
VIETNAM | Thursday, 29 Nov 2007 | Views [359]
The sleeper bus was not very comfortable. It was designed by koreans for Koreans so picture very small and short sleeping births. There were three rows of bunk beds in the bus with one bathroom. Now in Vietnam, bus drivers hoot to warn the scooters ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
VIETNAM | Monday, 26 Nov 2007 | Views [508]
We arrived back in Hanoi from Halong Bay, late after our bus had a flat tyre. Changing the flat tyre was a very interesting process. The bus driver was unable to change the tyre with the tools that were on the bus. Next minute he had jumped ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
VIETNAM | Friday, 23 Nov 2007 | Views [348]
An early start and we were off to Halong Bay. One night on a junk boat and one night on Cat Ba Island. Central Vietnam had been hit with floods and Hanoi had apparently been busier than usual, but we were still surprised by the number of minibuses ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 | Views [598]
From Guilin into Hanoi We left in good time for the train station as we have now realised that platform numbers aren't always in letters we can understand and needed safety time. We weren't disappointed once we were back at the station, a station ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CHINA | Saturday, 17 Nov 2007 | Views [348]
Except for the nut cracking, mobile phone ringing Chinese man and the 5 minute wake up call we got before arriving in Guilin our train trip was uneventful. We caught a taxi to our hotel who didn't have our reservation - although I think the hotel receptionist ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
VIETNAM | Friday, 16 Nov 2007 | Views [405]
We arrived in Danang and immediately booked our hostel through the local office who organised all our bus transfers. We arranged for the hostel to collect us.... little did we know that this would mean that we would be transported on the back of a bike, ... Read more >
CHINA | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2007 | Views [517]
We left Shanghai for Hong Kong - happy to be leaving Shanghai after our delayed departure. We
had an interesting taxi ride to the train station and apart from the
mad driving, we thought that the car was going to fall apart. We drove
over a very ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CHINA | Sunday, 4 Nov 2007 | Views [574]
Well into Shanghai and yet another train journey. Although this was a
train journey with a difference - we had 3 beds in a 4 bed compartment
(Sue, Nick & me), the third bed was made up by a respectable
looking Chinese man. All was fine until ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CHINA | Thursday, 1 Nov 2007 | Views [634] | Comments [1]
Nick was once again travelling with us, however, as we thought we had been able to get rid of him, we had already booked our train tickets. By the time it came to book his ticket, there were no sleepers left on our train so it meant that he was left ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CHINA | Friday, 26 Oct 2007 | Views [614] | Comments [2]
The train into China was fairly uneventful. I made sure that I stopped drinking about 5 hours before the border crossing to save the desperation caused at the last border crossing. It was a fun day and a half, travelling with the same folks we had ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
MONGOLIA | Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Views [618]
I wasn't allowed to type this one as there were fears that I would leave out some of the details. My I went to Mongolia and it was fun was not going to cut it so Lauren typed Mongolia..... We spent a day and an evening in Irkstuk - I can't honestly ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Friday, 19 Oct 2007 | Views [646] | Comments [1]
We arrived in Irkstuk after our marathon train journey looking a little worse for wear due to the lack of showering and requiring a decent night sleep. Sue insists I mention her hair was stuck to her head - I can't argue, it was. We were split up ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007 | Views [489]
Train from Moscow into Siberia We left Moscow at about midnight with enough food for three days to feed a small Russian army. The train was very new and very clean so we got ourselves sorted and went to bed. As we had walked ourselves to a stand ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Thursday, 11 Oct 2007 | Views [477]
Okay - I am trying to remember what we did and saw in Moscow... Our driver picked us up form the train station and managed to keep a straight face when he saw all our luggage. We arrived at the hotel no problem - except that our train got in at 5 in ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
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