South East Asia loop (and birds!)
In and around World
Im writing this before we go and I have no real idea what to expect! My girlfriend Emily and I are planning to travel to South East Asia, hoping to see lots of birds and other wildlife. The plan at this point is to spend a couple of months in Thailand, a month in Malaysia, two Months in Indonesia (perhaps more if we work out a cheap visa run) a couple of months in China, a month in both Vietnam and Cambodia and finally we intend to finish up in Nepal and India. We plan on spending a total of 12 months away though we shall see how the pennies go.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Ian & Emily
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Our Birds Of Thailand
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Below is our bird list for Thailand, Using Craig... Continue reading »
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Landing in Bangkok
Hello all hope all is fine, Were currently waiting for a bus to chiang mai so I ve got time (lots of time) to catch up with this.
Our flight... Continue reading »
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Khao Yai National Park
With all the traveling we were looking forward to a meal and a shower, unfortunatley they stopped doing any food on the campsite at 5 pm so we didn... Continue reading »
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A breif stop
We came to Anyuthaya from khao yai becuse this was a city where it is easy to get to chiangmai, it also gave us the opportunity to get some cloth... Continue reading » -
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Emilys Turn
We arrived quite early in the morning they herded us off the bus onto sawngteaws and took us to a guesthouse, we were given free coffee and then they... Continue reading » -
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Cold Camping, Mountains and birds
Our lonley planet said this would be quite streight foward to get to Doi inthanon from Chiangmai (it lied) We started by getting a tuktuk to the wrong... Continue reading » -
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Doi Chiang Dao
We walked to the bus station from our guest house in chiangmai, the journey to chiang dao took about an hour and a half. We came to Chiang Dao because... Continue reading » -
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Mu ko Surin Marine park
We took quite a slow trip down from Chiang mai to the South, Ian wanted to stop at a City called Nakorn Sawan for a few days to go birding at Beung... Continue reading »
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Khao Sok
From Surin we headed south to Takua pa, where we got another bus to Khao Sok National park. We met an old swedish birder in Takua pa who had been b... Continue reading »
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New year around Railay
From Khao Sok we got back to Takua pa and got a bus down to Krabi, here we stayed a night because Ian wanted to do some birding around the Ma... Continue reading »
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Our search for the Gurney's Pitta
We left Railay, and stayed for a few night back in Krabi. Ian still needed to recover before traveling. from Railay we got a bus to Khlong Thom whe... Continue reading »
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Traveling south to Singapore
We arrived in Penang early in the morning after a more than slightly confusing border crossing, our first hiccup of our trip. The bank canceled all... Continue reading »
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Frasers Hill
From Singapore we got a train back to KL and then on to Kuala Kubu Baru (KKB). There is no public transport any more to frasers hill, so from KKB w... Continue reading »
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Taman Negara
We arrived late in Jerantut so stayed a night there before going to Kuala Tembeling Jetty. Where we got a long tailed boat to The National Park, It... Continue reading »
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Arriving in Sumatra
After Leaving Taman Negara we got a train back to KL and then on to Penang (it is along way round but much cheaper than geting a tourist bus and in... Continue reading »
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Orang-utans and twisted ankle
We copped out on using public transport and instead hired a car and driver for next to nothing to take us the two and a half hour journey to Bukit... Continue reading »
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Top birding at ketambe
After leaving Bukit Lawang, this time with the very crowded public transport, we headed back to Medan only to find out that our cards had all been... Continue reading »
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Up a volcano
We came here only to get malaria tablets but then found that there was a volcano which was just asking to be climbed. The Volcano Sibayak is easy t... Continue reading »
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On top of Sumatra
From Lake Toba we got a bus to Padang we were told it would take 18 hours across the trans-sumatran highway, but because at one point the road... Continue reading »
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Way Kambas
We left Kerinci on a public bus and headed for Bengkulu, the bus passed along the Tapan Road that we birded along some days earlier and we were hop... Continue reading »
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Beach and Clubs
We had planned on getting a flight streight to Labuan bajo (so we could get a boat to Komodo) from bali. Unfortunatley all flights were full... Continue reading »
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Dragons
We flew to Labuan Bajo in flores from Bali the plane was alot smaller than we were expecting. We spent our first night in Labuan Bajo in a guesthos... Continue reading »
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Bali Starlings on Nusa Penida
Our time in Indonesia was now running out and there were two places we wanted to visit though only just about anough time for one. In the end we op... Continue reading »
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landing in China
We arrived in hangzhou in the evening and from the airport got a bus to the city centre and then a taxi to our chosen guesthouse. We arrived there... Continue reading »
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Blue-crowned laughingthrushes
We arrived in Wuyuan and met up with proffesor Fen-qi who was doing cencus work on the Blue-crowned laughingthushes (BCLT) at Wuyuan this is a Crit... Continue reading »
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The wall, Forbidden palace, summer palace and kung fuuuuu
From Wuyuan we headed back to Hangzhou (having booked in advance) and stayed there a few days. Ian is not really a city person but hangzhou ha... Continue reading »
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Terracotta warriors
After a very uncomftable journey from Beijing (In china they sell standing tickets even for long journeys, bodies were all over the floor and if yo... Continue reading »
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bar-headed geese at Niao dao
We arrived in Xining that morning to find that we had missed the bus by half hour that goes to Niao Dao (bird island) so we stayed one night h... Continue reading »
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monastries and vultures
Arriving in Xining we booked a sleeper bus for the following afternoon to Yushu. The bus was a sleeper that had bunk beds in it. The journey was su... Continue reading »
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A desrted mountain lake
The Journey to Maniango at first glance looked quite boring, plains and mountain peaks in the distant, however looking closer we saw the ground was... Continue reading »
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Giant Pandas
I feel like we are missing loads of our journey jumping streight to Chengdu it was 4 or 5 days after leaving Manigango we arrived. Our first stop w... Continue reading »
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Jiuzhaigou National Park
We had another all day bus ride from Chengdu to reach Jiuzhaigou National Park, We entered the park the following day. It was hugeley expensive but... Continue reading »
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Horse treking
We didnt choose to go to Songpan until the day before, Emily kept hinting she wanted to do a horse trek in China, so Ian Suggested we go to Songpan... Continue reading »
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Emei Shan
The plan wasto get to Wolong, we were told we had to change bus at a place we cant remember.... Continue reading »
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