China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand NZ and Oz
In and around China
Travelling from Uk to Asia and New Zealand And Australia for 4 months.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Chuck2006
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Bit Like Bladerunner
Shanghai was a real shock in comparison to everywhere else. We got off the plane and easily got a bus into the city centre and towards the tr... Continue reading »
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Bad Way To Start A Trip
Passport - check , travel money - check , socks - check - Huge man ripping my teeth out with pliers without anesthetic - check. After weeks and months... Continue reading » -
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City of a million cockroaches
I got on the plane full of joy and anticipation with the spirit of adventure that this trip deserved or half asleep with a scab the size... Continue reading »
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Beijing and onto Xian - Strange Lolly Ices
Ni Hao, I am not actually in Beijing as the blog says so suppose i will do another page in a mo as i do like the little map with circle and t... Continue reading »
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Last Day in Beijing Into Xian
We got up on our last day in Beijing as we had booked an excursion to the Mutanyu section of the great wall. There was the usual spitting cho... Continue reading »
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Xi'an City
Xian is a lovely place and was much smaller than beijing so there wasn't the fuss of getting a taxi everywhere. We arrived from the nig... Continue reading »
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Sichuan Sichuan we all fall down
Forgot to mention in the previous post, the picture is of The Maglev, it is a tilting train we took to the airport, it goes 430 km per hour. <... Continue reading »
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Lijiang
Lijiang really is a lovely place. We flew in to the airport flanked by mountains on either side, it was a bit unnerving to see land above&nbs... Continue reading »
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Kunming Hotel Bathroom
Wow Kunming...what can i say....besides i didn't see much of it. Not that there looked to much there anyway.
After i landed i told the... Continue reading »
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Fun In Dali
We got out of Kunming the day after on a 7 hour train on a "hard seat". We sat down as 2 young chinese lads and a chinese girl sat in front o... Continue reading »
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Yangshou And Guilin
Am now in lovely Yangshou on the Li river. It is a million degrees and there are dragonflies the size of Fiat Puntos flying around the place,... Continue reading »
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More Yangshou
Just a few added details on Yangshou while i have a pc to myself, this blog is brought to you by a wonderful keyboard with sticking letters so fully e... Continue reading » -
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The Land That Excitement Forgot
Wow Kunming...what a place! it has everything you would like if you were depressed and wanted to slit your wrists.
Every street seems identic... Continue reading »
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Hanoi Frogger
Hello Hanoi, Another country after a month, this trip just seems to have flown by. The airport in Hanoi was tiny for an international airport and o... Continue reading »
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15
Life's a beach
We got a nice and bumpy boat from Ko Samui to Ko Phangan which had zero space on it. So we plonked ourselves on the floor with our bags every... Continue reading »
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Halong Way From Shore
Halong Bay, on a boat looking at Karst structures rising out of the water like there were giant madonnas in her pointy bra stage but kinda lying do... Continue reading »
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No Hue
After a hungover journey on the bus back to hanoi Ruth and I noticed an unusual smell. To be presice the smell of unwashed flip flops....even... Continue reading »
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Happy Budda
Hoi An, beautiful little town on the south china sea. It's been tough, getting up and having a swim while the sun beats down well into high 3... Continue reading »
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Nha Trang
After the small town of Hoi An we got the train from Danang to the monstrosity that was Nha Trang.
We got in the train early in th... Continue reading »
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Mui Ne Nights
We arrived by 5 hour rickety bus in the little coastal resort of Mui Ne.
Mui Ne is basically a big stretch of road circing round the co... Continue reading »
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Worst Haircut In Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City or Siagon as it used to be.. Not the sprawling metropolis i imagined. It sprawls, it's a metropolis but there are lots... Continue reading »
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Siem Reap - Angkor Wat
The main place i had heard of and a place i wanted to see for ages was Angkor Wat. Built around 1113 to 1150 as a temple dedicated to Vishnu&... Continue reading »
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Land Mines, Temples And Cows
We flew into Siem Reap to avoid going through Phnom Pehn by bus as we heard phnom pehn was somewhat lawless and we only really wanted to see t... Continue reading »
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Siem Reap - Bayon Temples
The tuk tuk on the first day drove us around what is called "the little circuit" which means tons and tons of temples yay!..Ruth was getting temple... Continue reading »
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Siem Reap - Preah Khan
The second day followed the first getting up late, mooching around for somewhere that could do something resembling a decent breakfast then meeting... Continue reading »
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Bangkok Nose Jobs
Bangkok, about the forth time i have been here and it is still as odd as i remember it. Our hotel was just downright bizarre. The Baan... Continue reading »
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Smack My Beach Up
Here at Ko Samui now. We started off at Lamai beach which was pretty quiet unless we walked for 20 minutes through frogs and lizard which had... Continue reading »
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Stormy Weather
After an up-and-downy ride by a boat held together by chewing gum we got from Ko Samui to Ko Phangan.
Neither of us were sick but half the bo... Continue reading »
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29
Chav Inn
After 5 days in a hammock it was decided that we had better get off our backsides and go somewhere else so we caught the katamaran, katemoran....er... Continue reading »
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Big Buddha is Watching
Big Buddha Beach, lovely, besides the fact it has rained for 3 days and our hut is on the runway of the airport, literally 1 kilometre away. ... Continue reading »
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Brrr It's Freezing
We got into Auckland around 5pm and the first thing we noticed after coming from asia is that it is absolutely freezing.
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Bangkok Again
Ah Bangkok, the fresh smell of sewer hitting your nostrils, 20 tramps grabbing your legs, lady boys, drugs beer and a hostel next to a chicken farm... Continue reading »
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Hello Anyone There?
Christchurch - Where is everyone?
We got dropped off at Cokers Hotel which is basically the Overlook Hotel from "The Shining". The bui... Continue reading »
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Missing Penguins
We arrived in Oomaru to see the penguins which are the big thing here, there are two colonies on nearby beaches.
We stopped in a trailer park... Continue reading »
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Dunedin - Life In A Trailer Park
I'm currently in Franz Joseph village writing this blog from a bus filled with computers! don't see these every day.
An hour or so's drive fr... Continue reading »
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Te Anau - Milford Sound
Te Anau is a small, beautiful lakeside town surrounded by snow-capped mountains. There are a few quaint cafes here and a shopping street shou... Continue reading »
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Omarama - House Of Wax
Ever seen the film "House Of Wax"? It is a horror movie whereby some evil brothers lure people into their distant town, kill them and make th... Continue reading »
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Mount Cook and Lake Tekapo
A day trip to Mount Cook was exciting, well to me anyway, think Ruth was getting scenary-ied out by now. Mount Cook is the highest mountain i... Continue reading »
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Franz Josef Glacier
We got to Franz Josef village after a hellish 6 hour drive through more winding, precipitous, mountain roads with graves and flowers on bends with... Continue reading »
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Nature Watch
We drove for 7 hours from the West Coast of New Zealand over to the East Coast just 1 and half hours drive above Christchurch where we had to drop... Continue reading »
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Ozzie Land
Brisbane is a nice place a decent sized city with lots of ingredients with which to make an exciting place-cake. The city has a river ru... Continue reading »
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Australia Zoo and Hervey Bay Whales
We travelled for around 7 and a half hours to get to Hervey Bay. We stopped for a couple of hours though to go round Steve Irwin's Australia... Continue reading »
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Airlie Beach
Airlie Beach is where backpackers and holiday makers meet the yacht owning set in Queensland and the thing to do when they all meet... Continue reading »
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Cairns 18/30
Another 8 hour drive was rewarded with the news that the booking we had made for the hostel we wanted wasn't received and we were homeless. S... Continue reading »
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Port Douglas
Port Douglas is another one of those places that are too nice and too expensive for me to live in.
There is a port which you would expect to... Continue reading »
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Sydney - End Of The Road
We arrived in Sydney just before midnight after our flight from Cairns. We were dropped off by our taxi with the ominous words "you know... Continue reading »
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