World trip
In and around World
India is the first step of our worldtrip.
We have 6 weeks to discover the colorful subcontinent, with a first week of Indian-Mexican weeding.
After which we are heading off to south east Asia: Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Loas and finally flying out to Mexico from Bangkok.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Maite & Hugo
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New Delhi -the first step of our world trip
We have been now for few days in India. A come back home for Hugo, a new discover for Maite. We arrived in Mumbai on thuesday in the early morning.... Continue reading »
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Agra - The city of the Taj
We took advantage, of one day off in our Delhi wedding schedule to go to explore one of the 7 new wonders of the World.
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Varanasi - The Holiest place in India
Hi everybody,
So after having spent more then a week in New Delhi and attending a beautiful Indian wedding of our dear friends Tara and Paco... Continue reading »
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Jaipur and its red palaces...
Hi everybody...
Yes get used to the fact that keeping up the blog is not the main thing of our trip and we promise we will continue to do so... Continue reading »
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Pushkar - the place where the lotus fell down on the earth
Dear all,
As you might have noticed we are getting a bit behind on our blog to cover every stop made along the way. So now then some words on... Continue reading »
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Jodhpur - the blue city
After the spiritual Pushkar, we decided to go to Jodhpur the famous blue city. We took a local bus at 7am and I (Maite) could enjoy for the first t... Continue reading »
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Udaipur, the floating lake palace city
We choose Udaipur, the Venice of the East, one of greatest Rajasthan treasure to have a rest in our traveling and treat us well, in a lake view hot... Continue reading »
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Mumbai, a city in turmoils
Mumbai, better known as Bombay was our first step in India but we didn't have time then to discover it. Because of the events of the 26 of December... Continue reading »
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Aurangabad and the beautiful caves of Ellora & Ajanta
After our short stay in Mumbai, we took the train inland to explore the beautiful caves of Ellora and Ajanta.... This is were the last entry stoppe... Continue reading »
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Goa... the tropical pearl of India
After our short stay in Mumbai, we took the train down the coast to the small state of Goa.
As soon as we left the economic capital, we cou... Continue reading »
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Hampi, the long forgotten kingdom
After a very nice train ride during the day where we could enjoy the landscape of south India passing by in front of we arrived in Hampi. As you ca... Continue reading »
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Chennai, the capital of the south
Chennai, formerly named Madras, was our last big stop (escale) in India.
It was the opportunity for Hugo to visit his Indian friend Kartik a... Continue reading »
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Pondicherry
As we were in Chennai, we took the opportunity to do a little escape to the former French "contoire" of Pondicherry.
That was the opportunity... Continue reading »
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Clean and westernized Singapore
After almost 6 weeks in the "incredible" India, it was time for us to move to our next destination: South East Asia. It was not without a little sa... Continue reading »
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Diving paradise of Similian Islands
As we both learned how to dive in South East Asia and knew about its wonders, we already had planned to go for few days diving in the region. We fi... Continue reading »
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Bangkok
After our intensive diving in the Similian islands, we headed back to Phucket to get a bus straight to Bangkok as our main destination in South Eas... Continue reading »
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The border crossing Thailand & Cambodia
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The lost temples of Angkor
After the "adventurous" boarder crossing, we followed a road lined with small wooden huts on stilts of 1 to 2 meters high that gave us an idea of h... Continue reading »
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Battambang - Cambodia's 2nd city which seems like a little village
Battambang
For us the only reason to go to Battambang was to enjoy a very nice and scenic boat ride across the big lake (tongle sap) and then... Continue reading »
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Phnom Penh, very impressive
As you all have seen in the past weeks we were not really able to keep the blog up to date. Furthermore the blog was not properly working with the... Continue reading »
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Hue the imperial city
see photos text might come later... only to say ha noi was nice but we were not unhappy to escape it for halong bay
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Beautiful halong bay (Maite´s long time dream since indochine)
see the pictures text might come (or not)... just one little peak under the vale... somebody might have been to secure with the money belts...... Continue reading »
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Ha Noi again for two days
ok the story was that we planned to come back from Halong bay to Ha Noi and be dropped at our fabulous travel agent to catch a bus to Vinh from whe... Continue reading »
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Beautiful and chilled out Luang Prabang
no stories just the pictures need to speak for themselves...
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Very chilled out small town (with a lot of tourist)
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Vientiane, smallest capÃtal city seen so far..
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Party night in Bangkok
This time no pictures.. Just a quick note that we flew from Vietiane (Laos) to Bangkok where we stayed at a friend of Maite. In the evening we went... Continue reading »
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The new world viva Mexico!!! Mexico DF
After a grueling flight from bangkok via LA (1 night rest there) we arrived jet lagged and all in Mexico D.F. (Mexico City). See the pictures for n... Continue reading »
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Ancient and beautiful pyramides of the Sun and Moon
This site was one of the reasons to come to Mexico and it for sure didn´t disappoint us have a look and judge for yourself.
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Gaby & co in nice Queretaro
In Queretaro we met Gaby and her sisters and had a great evening!! See the pictures..
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very nice colonial silver town
We arrived from Guanajuato to Aguascalientes were Leo and Angie picked us up from the bus station. The next day they joined us to the city of Zacat... Continue reading »
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Aguascalientes, town of the hot water with a water shortage!
After seeing the town up north it was now time to see the town Aguascalientes, but only after having kept Angie from her work during the morning...... Continue reading »
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Again back in Mexico D.F for a nice diner with lovely Magarita
Just so that you all know we spend our time in Mexico D.F with a friend of Maite´s Mum who was kind enough to host us at her place in Mexico... Continue reading »
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Puebla & Cholula a wonderfull reunion with our mexican friends
During Paco & Tara´s wedding we were part of the mexican family and what would be a stay in Mexico without visiting them!! We had a great... Continue reading »
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