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Halfway around the world in 1 year
Welcome to Sotje62 ! My blog intends to make the world a smaller place. Automatically and real-time, the blog traces Beatriz and myself's whereabouts, it might just tell you a thing or 2 that interests me - therefore not you, that's the privilege of having a blog - but read new blogs on the top and click on the pictures in the side bar to see older blogs, the blog,and Beatriz and I hope you grow a good 'travel' appetite. Sotje62 travel blog is in Vlaams (donker gekleurd) and in English (light coloured). So read what you understand and again what you like.
14-04-2009
Photos; From London to Mumbai + GOA
Welke datum is het morgen, 2 jaar ja. / Which date tomorrow, 2 years.
Cornflakes als ontbijt, goeie gewoontes nie veranderen!! / Cereals in the morning, don't change good habits!!.
Arambol, the beachfront.
Arambol vanuit de hut / Arambol from in the hut.
Slaaptrein van Bombay naar Arambol / Sleep train from Bombay to Arambol
Bombay verkeer is hallucinant, leuk om te zien, moeilijk om over te steken / Bombay traffic is awful, nice to see though, and hard to cross a street.
Bea kent de weg naar Bombay Central / Bea knows the way to Bombay Central
Mani Bhavan, verblijf van Ghandi in Bombay / Mani Bhavan, residence of Ghandi in Bombay
Indische efficentie / Indian efficiency
Indische efficientie nr 2 / Indian efficiency nr 2
Bombay. Indische efficientie nr 3 / Indian efficiency nr 3
Bombay. Indische efficientie nr 4 / Indian efficiency nr 4
Bombay.
Bombay. Gelukkig om een bed te zien / Happy to see a bed.
Bombay. Treinen zonder deuren. / Trains without doors.
Bombay, Bea verliest 1 rupee aan de man met de weegschaal / Bea lost 1 rupee to the weighing scale.
Bombay, cricket field.
Bombay. Victoria station. Veel proper en net / A lot cleaner and tidy.
Bombay, alarm, koe op straat!! / A cow on the street!
Bombay. Leer Engels voor 750 rupees/12 euro. / Learn English for 750 rupees/12 euro.
Bombay, koerier met linnen op weg naar Bombay Central / courrier with linnen on his way to Bombay Central
enkele van de 40.000 taxis / Some of the 40.000 taxis
Andheri train station. Klaas.
Bea's eerste stappen in Bombay / Bea's first steps in Bombay
Bombay, Zicht vanuit onze kamer, niet te prachtig! / View from the room, not nice at all!
Voorbereiding in London met Pria / Our last preparations with Pria
London. Excitement all over for tomorrow's take off.
London. De beste kamer die we zullen zien dit jaar / The best room we will see this year.
16.09.09. Half-Round the world in 1 year / Kick off. 9th of April 2009, Mumbai, India’s biggest city, is our best destination to take the train south to Goa, Kerala and Bangalore. From there we go 4,000 km by train back to north India, see Karnataka, Rajasthan, the Taj Mahal, Varanasi and Nepal. In Nepal we do small treks in the Himalayas and visit Kathmandu. Over de friendship highway, the route goes from Kathmandu to Lhasa by jeep, maximum altitude 5250m and we get to see the Mount Everest. In Lhasa we take the train through China, see the Terracotta warriors in Xi'an, and go 3,500m north to enter Mongolia and arrive in Ulan Bator. In Mongolia we camp in the Khovsgol area near the Russian Siberia, and renew the Chinese Visa to go back south. The clock says 4 months when we trained through China and see Yunnan, South China with its wonderful terraced rice fields. We enter the tropics and after 6 months travels we are in Vietnam. 2 months after that, we should have seen Angkor, the beaches in Thailand & Maleysia ...<e.d. 25.10.09. There is a change of plan after Angkor: we fly from Bangkok to Manila, we go to the Philippines!!> and on a ferry to Indonesia. From either Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok, we find our way to Sydney and work for 3 months. We will have traveled for 1 year when we are in Oz and ... and ... and ... that is how far we planned. But we were supposed to come back in 1 year but we are only half around the world. Beatriz and myself love Asia!! So much for planning ahead and scheduling. Let's just see how we get on and the more exciting our trip will be. Wish us good luck on the trip!!
