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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.

04-11-2009

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In Siem Reap, volle maan festival en veel regen. Angkor zal nat zijn morgen. // Full moon festival is with rain. Angkor will be wet tomorrow !!

De tempels van Angkor zijn fantastisch van begin tot einde. Tuk-tuk besteld, weerbericht gaf droog weer, en om 5 uur zijn we opgepikt door de tuk-tuk voor zonsopgang. Beatriz en ik hebben een volledige dag tempels bezocht en met een persoonlijk record meer dan 250 foto's genomen. Dan heeft de batterij het begeven :-) Moe en verzadigd, vooral het fototoestel dan, en mijn verstuikte enkel van dom te doen in de tempels - ik heb over een 1000-jarige muur geklommen en slecht geland - zijn we uitgecheckt en deze morgen de bus genomen naar Bangkok. 14 dagen gratis visa geeft ons de tijd om enkele stops te maken in het noorden van Thailand. Chang Mai bijvoorbeeld.

We gaan zaterdag direct van Bangkok naar Chang Mai. Op onze terugreis naar Bangkok maken we enkele stops. Op 19 November hebben we dan onze vlucht naar Manila, Filippijnen. Hopelijk zullen alle typhoons van de Filippijnen de revu gepasseerd zijn vooraleer we ons geld in de Filippijnse economie investeren. Onze gedachten zijn bij de Filippijnse bevolking. Veel groetjes en ik wens je een fantastische dag! Ik ga nog wat ijs op mijn enkel leggen.

The temples of Angkor really are a fantastic experience. Tuk-tuk was ordered, weatherforecast gave out dry weather, and at 5 AM we were picked up by a tuk-tuk to catch the sunrise. Beatriz and me spent a full day in the tempels and with a personal record took more than 250 days in one day. Then the battery bailed out on me :-) Tired and enough temples for a long time, for my camera then, leaving Cambodia with a sprained ankle - I landed horribly bad after climbing over a 1000 year old wall - we checked out and took the bus to Bangkok. The 14 days free visa gives us some time to see the North of Thailand. We ll go to Chang Mai for example.

On Saturday we train directly from Bangkok to Chang Mai. On our way back to Bangkok we ll make a few extra stops and then on the 19th of November we have our flight to Manila, Philipines. Hopefully no typhoons anymore by then !! We are really worried about it because the ticket is unrefundable. For what it's worth, we would pump loads of money in their economy. Our thoughts are with the people of the Philipines. Many greetings and enjoy the rest of your day! I ll put some more ice on that ankle.

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	Boracay, ze heten het de parel van de Filipijnen
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	Brisbane, Australia!
	Kuala Lumpur

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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