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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.
08-12-2009
Intramuros, the Spanish quarter in Manila, and Vigan City, the most Spanish city in South-East Asia.
I am in San Juan, North Luzon province and thinking back of Manila and Vigan City. On these pictures you see Manila and Vigan City. Vigan City is very north, and we don't have much time left in the Philippines because we fly tomorrow to KK, however it is a very nice place and worth the trip. Manila we visited in 1 day. See for yourself whether you would like Manila and Vigan City. This afternoon I will go surfing and that will be it for the today!
Ik ben in San Juan, de provincie Noord Luzon en ik denk terug aan Manila en Vigan City. Op de foto's zie je Manila en Vigan City. Vigan City is helemaal in het noorden, en we hebben niet veel tijd meer in de Filippijnen want we vliegen morgen naar KK, maar het is de moeite. Manila hebben we in 1 dag gedaan. Kijk of het Manila en Vigan City je zouden bevallen. Deze middag ga ik surfen en dat is het voor vandaag!
Manila, Intramuros. Left is the provincial palace, right the cathedral of Manila (in front a golf course!!)
Manila, the cathedral of Manila
Typhoons, fires, earthquakes... the cathedral has been re-built 7 times!!
The Mr Suave horse
Manila, basketball playing children in Intramuros
We visited Intramuros on a Saturday and we had a wedding. Beatriz is in the picture somewhere.
Beatriz is very interested in the wedding !!
This is on the bus to Vigan city.
The Unesco world heritage city of Vigan
Vigan city, St. Paul church
A Filipino horse carriage
A Filipino crowd is watching a Sunday night dance contest. Dance contests are very popular in Vigan.
Vigan city, me in the morning.
From Vigan city to San Juan (La Union), you can see the beachfront and ... the old road I think.
Beach front between Vigan City and San Juan (La Union).
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!!
