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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.
31-07-2009
Beijing 2008; Summer palace; The great wall
Peking, 06.08.09. Vooraleer ik morgen vertrek naar Shanghai, publiceer ik nog enkele foto's van Peking. Peking is een machtige stad, en ik ben er graag geweest.
Zoals altijd zijn we laat met onze baggage te pakken en neem ik niet veel tijd voor internet. De foto's op de externe harde schijf kopieren, de foto's op het internet publiceren vraagt al veel tijd. En we lopen altijd vertraging op. We hebben net drie Spanjaarden ontmoet (ik heb een beetje Spaans gebabbeld, en toen weggelopen met als excuus internet) die, met de fiets op het vliegtuig, 2 weken in Yunnan, China, hebben rondgetoerd, een Israelische 60-jarige vrouw heeft ons (te) veel tips gegeven over Shanghai, de computer werkt niet goed en ga maar door. Ons plan voor morgen is wel strikt. We gaan eten inkopen voor de trein, de passports ophalen, en dan nemen we de trein om 11u57. We kunnen hem niet missen. We zijn in Shanghai zaterdag morgen.
Alles wat ik dus beloofd heb voor vandaag en gisteren, moet dus wachten tot zaterdag. Zaterdag ben ik terug in actie,
Tot in Shanghai !!
Before I leave to Shanghai tomorrow, I publish a few more pics of Beijng. Peking is good and Bea and me love it.
Never changing is that we still need to pack our backpacks so there is little time for the internet. Copying the pics from the camera to the hard disk, publishing the pics, is all I do on the internet these days. And we plan so much !! But always something slows you down (not a bad thing). We just started talking with 3 Spanish guys that brought their pushbike to China (I spoke a bit of Spanish, then I left with the internet-excuse) and did a tour in Yunnan (South China, we are going there), a senior Israeli woman loves to gives advice about Shanghai (too much really) and so on. Our plan for tomorrow is strict though. We are going food shopping for the 21-hour train, we pick up our passports from the PSB, and take the train at 11h57. And we cannot miss it. Saturday morning we arrive in Shanghai.
If I promised something for tomorrow or yesterday, ... forget the promise. Saturday we are back online and kicking,
See you in Shanghai !
Beijing 2008, National stadium
Beijing is known for duck. There is no picture of our duck, so this pic should be a good substitue. Pato pato !
Beijing. Bea at the summer palace.
Beijing. A 10,000 euro Ming vase.
Beijing. The great wall. Looks like a solid construction.
Bijing. The great wall. Come on Bea !
Beijing. The great wall is our ground for a moment.
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!!
