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TRAVEL BLOG AND ITINERARY
a travel blog
General Location: The World Author: Travelbabs 3 Comments
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Well, it's pretty clear from my title what this jouney is all about..my crazy trip into the big wide world on a round the world ticket! Wooohhoooooo! Work and all that are going to have to wait for a while :) Leaving London my first destination is Hong Kong on sunday, and from there I'll be drifting around China and India for a few months before heading over to Australia and New Zealand. Then there's a wee while on a Cook island, a few days in the US and back home. Phew!All very exciting and also a little bit scary.
And as exciting as it all is, it's also very sad leaving everything that I know and love behind for such a long time so I'll try and be good and keep you all updated with my whereabouts through this site. I've decided to do this blog thing so you don't get spammed with annoying mass emails but instead you can choose when to look into my annoying mass web diary ramblings. So bookmark this site and you can track my progress. I'm most excited about the fact that I get pins on the world map for all my destinations. Also if you zoom in on the map you get google earth pictures. So it's practically like you're there with me! How cool is that?!
So I fly out to Hong Kong on sunday...and go with the flow from there....to be back for some catch up boogy in March! :)
I hope you enjoy! And maybe become inspired to come and join me somewhere along the way... :) hugs all around
xxx Babsi xxx
| Trip Itinerary (Travel Blog Entries) | |||
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Brussels | Jul 01 '06 | Panic packing |
2 |
Hong Kong | Jul 17 '06 | Welcome to Asia
"In line with everthing in Hong Kong it seemed to be a competition of how much stuff and how many people to cram into the smallest possible space" |
3 |
Shenzhen | Jul 21 '06 | Shopping mall sauna!
"Would have helped if someone had told us that Shenzen is the same as Lo Wu!!" |
4 |
Guilin | Jul 22 '06 | Guilin and Ling, our Chinese friend |
5 |
Yangshuo | Jul 24 '06 | Tourist overload!
"I just about managed to squeeze into an XXL!!! Kept having to make fat signs at the woman to get me bigger ones" |
6 |
Lonji | Jul 27 '06 | The Lonji rice terraces
"You think you're soaked and then you realise there are whole new levels of wetness!!" |
7 |
Dali | Jul 31 '06 | Temples and cobblestones
"Disconcertingly the face massage involved the inside of my nose getting a good rub!" |
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Lijiang | Aug 03 '06 | My first peak and asian boogy! |
9 |
Lhasa | Aug 08 '06 | Mountain adventures begin!!!
"suddenly we realise there's actually not one, but two surprise guests...one of which is a full on fluffy and ginger lap dog!" |
10 |
Lhasa | Aug 14 '06 | Holy city of Lhasa
"And inside it a murky lumpy looking mixture....turns out it was fermented yaks milk!" |
11 |
Mount Everest | Aug 18 '06 | Four day trek to Mt Everst!! |
12 |
Paryang | Aug 30 '06 | Stranded in a jeep somewhere in the Tibet Himalaya |
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Darch | Sep 07 '06 | Three days trekking around Mt Kailash |
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Zhangmu | Sep 08 '06 | Goodby Tibet- land of mountains, lakes and monasteries
"time for new experiences and new adventures!!!" |
15 |
Kathmandu | Sep 12 '06 | Crazy Kathmandu
"like you see them on the Discovery Channel- covered in paints, wearing nothing but a loin cloth" |
16 |
Palolem | Sep 17 '06 | Goa- destruction in paradise
"At one point there was even a bulldozer that attacked the foundations" |
17 |
Alleppey | Sep 23 '06 | Pure indulgence- houseboat trip fit for queens! |
18 |
Kayankulam | Sep 23 '06 | Meeting Amma- 'The Hugging Mother' guru
"my head was grabbed by two sets of hands and put in exactly the right position to be thrust at Amma's ample bosom" |
19 |
Kochi | Sep 27 '06 | Crumbling colonial fishing town |
20 |
Ooty | Sep 30 '06 | Steam train and tea plantations
"And funniest fact of the day: a roll of toilet paper is twice the price of the five hour train jouney!" |
21 |
Mudumalai | Oct 03 '06 | I saw elephants!!
"I felt like David Attenborough- we were analysing the wind direction, sniffing the poo to see how fresh it was, checking the trees for signs of recent munchings..." |
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Mysore | Oct 05 '06 | musk oil for the cheeky cheeky?
"the musk oil was for us and our future husbands and the cheeky cheeky and it would keep us going all night!" |
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Hampi | Oct 06 '06 | Jurassic park film setting??
"I just kept thinking that I had dead buffalo swirling around in my head!!" |
24 |
Hyderabad | Oct 09 '06 | Muslim bazaar overload |
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Mumbai (Bombay) | Oct 12 '06 | Babs in Bollywood!!! (well nearly)
"we actually had a guy stand over a candle stub melting the wax to seal our white cloth packages with!!" |
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Varanasi | Oct 17 '06 | Holy cow- we made it to Varanasi!
"It just stood there and pooed out a calf- if you'd have blinked you'd have missed it, and the little slimy thing just thumped onto the road!" |
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Calcutta (Kolkata) | Oct 20 '06 | Calcutta and the Mother Theresa Foundation
"The girl I was holding on my lap got so excited that she peed all over me!!" |
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Darjeeling | Oct 26 '06 | Back in the mountains!
"I worked out that I had my first hot shower in 2 MONTHS!!!" |
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Annapurna | Nov 04 '06 | Hardcore trekking in the Himalayas
"I didn't even know baked goods could get that hard! You could easily have used it as a weapon" |
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Varanasi | Nov 25 '06 | Back at the burning ghats |
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Khajuraho | Nov 27 '06 | Erotic temples in Khajuraho
"He was so skinny and lithe and made the most ridiculous positions look like something that a human body SHOULD be capable of doing. Not something that I suceeded in doing!" |
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Agra | Nov 30 '06 | The Taj Mahal.. more than the postcards show!
"We spoke to a guy staying in a hotel dor $400 a night!He did offer that we could go and use the swimming pool at his hotel but stupidly we didn't catch the name!!" |
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Amritsar | Dec 01 '06 | Staying in the Golden Temple
"They provide free food for all of these 30,000 people every day- 24 hours a day!" |
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Calcutta (Kolkata) | Dec 06 '06 | Leaving India... :(
"The best word I can find to describe my experiences here is 'humbling'." |
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Singapore | Dec 07 '06 | Culture shock extreme! |
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Sydney | Dec 09 '06 | Sydney sights and surfing
"So we weren't looking all that cool when we got whacked in the head by the surfboard yet again!!" |
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Milford Sound | Dec 16 '06 | The boots are back on!
"And so the boots were back on! Oh how I'd missed them. And it was back to no showers and the same outfit and walking in the rain. After I'd just gotten used to being civilised again!!" |
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Abel Tasman National Park | Dec 23 '06 | Merry Christmas from the beaches of New Zealand
"we had a bit of a close encounter with a sting ray first thing on christmas morning!!" |
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Blenheim | Dec 27 '06 | Wine tasting tipsiness
"And so of course when there it is obligatory to taste as much wine as possible! :)" |
40 |
Takaka | Dec 30 '06 | happy 2007! Chilling in Golden Bay
"So there we were flying around the paddocks on a trailer attached to the back of a quad bike- and getting absolutely splattered in cow poo!!" |
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Murchison | Jan 02 '07 | Rafting the Buller river
"I also ended up sleeping int he top bunk of a bed that was more like a hammock and I was worried my bum would actually end up on Sarah's head during the course of the night!" |
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Arthur's Pass | Jan 04 '07 | Via the west coast up to a mountain pass and snowy peaks |
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Queenstown | Jan 06 '07 | Adrenaline action
"I thought it'd be a good idea to do the 'Gimpboy goes to Hollywood'.... what that involves is being hung upside down, 105m over a canyon and then being dropped head first, arms outstretched, to the bottom!" |
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Wanaka | Jan 12 '07 | Skydiving from 4500m! |
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Fox Glacier | Jan 14 '07 | With ice pick and crampons through a world of ice
"Apparently the cloudy weather meant that the ice looked more turquoise. And it really did look turquoise!" |
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Akaroa | Jan 16 '07 | We swim with the rarest dolphins in the world!!
"And I nearly fainted when I saw the bathroom- it's perfect! A huge oldfashioned tub sits under a big window overlooking the garden." |
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Kaikoura | Jan 19 '07 | Closley escaping death by killer orca
"I'm glad visibility was low or I'd have actually peed myself...not something you want in a wetsuit!! :)" |
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Takaka | Jan 25 '07 | Babs n Ben back on bikes
"It was definitely a bit of deja vu. two bikes, a tent, a bit of food and the wide open road." |
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Farewell Spit | Jan 29 '07 | Good horsey
"we cantered all along that, with the sheep running and spreading out to all sides in front of us. Such a sight! Brilliant." |
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Wellington | Jan 31 '07 | A cool capital!
"Walking back in the dark to suddenly see a huge lion's head right there is a little disconcerting!" |
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Tongariro National Park | Feb 03 '07 | Sledging through active volcano craters and trekking around Mt DOOOOM ( from Lord of the Rings)
"People just could not get over how much food we had with us! My bag has never been so heavy- not even with all of my stuff in it!!" |
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Taupo | Feb 07 '07 | Ending on a high |
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Rarotonga | Feb 10 '07 | Paradise island exists! And I get my very own offical Cook Islands Drivers Licence
"Otherwise you're dependent on the bus....which goes in two directions: clockwise and anti-clockwise. Classis!" |
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San Francisco | Feb 16 '07 | San Fran, man!
"seems that this group of guys likes to hang out and watch each other play tetris on a big projector screen!!" |
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London | Feb 21 '07 | Stats, summary and reflections on an unforgettable trip
"fighting the urge to start planning my next trip already!! :)" |
Comments or Questions for the Author
sleath1 says:
I am planning an 8 month round the world trip next year. How much did you spend? Do you think you picked the right time of year to go? I am going to go: London, Cairo, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Phuket, Bali, Perth, Sydney, Auckland, Cook Islands, Tahiti, Easter Island, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro, La Paz, Lima, Bogota, Caracas, Bridgetown, London. Can you recommend any good/bad times to go to certain places? Also how much do you think I will need. I am going alone, would this worry you? Thanks Steph
ganges814 says:
Hi! I'm from the Philippines. It's my first time to travel outside my country and I'm very much into these travel blogs right now. You inspire me a lot, while reading your blog. i just want to ask how much you spent all in all and maybe someday I can afford that too. I'm really into travelling right now and I promise myself to spend time and money every year. My target is to just go one country each year because money is very tight for me. Thank you very much for doing your travel blog because you really inspire people especially me. Thank you!
TravelinRose says:
Dear Fellow traveler, Was checking out your site and wanted to know if you could recommend a good 2-4 week trip in China...a "best of" your time there. Thanks, Travelin Rose