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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.
    14-06-2009
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nepal

    Sinds je mijn laatste blog gelezen hebt, zijn we in een ander land - Nepal. 2 maanden zijn voorbij, we zijn 13 euro (20 dollar is ons budget) per dag minder rijk, we hebben veel bijgeleerd van het mystieke Nepal, en de toppen van de Himalayas bewaren zijn grootste geheim, de bergbewoners. Zijn sterke communistische aanhang - de Maoisten - is dagelijks actief, maar onze ervaring beperkt zich tot hun wegblokkades op weg naar Pokhara, terwijl de Maoisten een toernooitje straatvoetbal spelen tegen het leger. Nepal is een toevluchtsoord voor Tibetaanse vluchtelingen - van Tibet gaan we nog veel meer te weten komen want volgende week zullen we daar zijn. Nu nog genieten van Nepal, het adventure paradijs voor trekkers en adrenaline-vreters.

    Onze eerste stop is in Tansen, Palpa. De foto onderaan is genomen op een dag-trek en is op 1950m met de Himalayas in de achtergrond. Er was geen toerist te bespeuren, echt machtig !! :-) Vraag me niet waarom, maar hoe minder toeristen ik zie, hoe trotser ik ben op mezelf. :-)

    De tweede foto is genomen aan het Phewa-Tal-meer in Pokhara. Fantastische plek om niets te doen.

    De bovenste foto is Durbar Square in Kathmandu. Daar zijn we nu. We zitten in een zijstraatje op een schamel computer om  wat mailtjes te sturen.



    Since you read my last blog, we are in another country - Nepal, we passed the 2 months, we lost some 12 quid a day, and we learnt so much about this mystical country. Its Himalaya tops save the world's biggest secret, the mountain villages, Nepal's Maoist party is active on a daily basis - our only (fortunately) experience with them is a road block while Maoists were playing footie with the Nepali army. Another big thing about Nepal are the Tibetan refugees - we ll learn a lot more about that because next week we are in Tibet - and Nepal defo is paradise to spit out adventure dreams and adrenaline you stocked in your body.

    Our first is in Tansen, Palpa. The first picture - starting from the bottom of the blog - is taken on a day-trek on elevation of 1950m (nothing much, we ve been very lazy :) with the Himalayas in the background. There was not one tourist around in Palpa which was fantastic. I guess the less tourist, the more you claim that place to be your's. Stupid I know.

    The middle pic is taken at the Phewa-Tal Lake in Pokhara. Beautiful place to chill and meet other people in the restaurants and hostels. (here there are a lot of tourist to go to do the Annapurna trek)

    The top picture is Durbar square in Kathmandu. I am in a small street off the Durbar square writing this. Love Kathmandu!!

    See you soon and stay in touch !!!



    Durbar Square, Kathmandu.



    Pokhara.



    Palpa.



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    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!!

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