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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.

01-07-2009

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Restricted Chinese Visa, let's get out of China !!

To give you an insight on what is on our minds, I ll tell you the story of our restricted Visa for China and the time problem we have. It is a big thing for us so sympathize !! :-))

We wanted the longest visa possible when we applied for the Chinese visa in Nepal. However, it turns out when we get the Chinese visa, that there is only 15 days on it, 8 days for the tour in Tibet and 7 days to get out of the country. This is because we cross Tibet and the Chinese are very strict for Tibetan tourism.

Options for us when we finish our tour in Tibet is this. You can extend the chinese visa in mainland China or go outside the country. Because we want to see other countries (Mongolia e.x.) after China, going outside the country is a better option for us. Otherwise you need a double-entry visa to go out of China, see Mongolia, and then come back in China. Waste of money basically.

So we opt to get out of China fast. And what is the easiest way and closest country. Mongolia!! But we have be there in 7 days, meaning: doing 36 hours of train-ing from Lhasa to Xi'an, see Xi'an because the Terracotta warriors are there (you do want to see something after being in a train for 36 hours), go by train from Xi'an (2,700 km) to the Chinese-Mongolian border, and in the mean time stop over in Huh hot to get the Mongolian visa. That is the plan. If we don't make it, we pay 50 euro per extra day in China, so wish us luck !!

PS: I am publishing pictures today and tomorrow I ll get some emails out. Enjoy the sunny summer time!

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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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