Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
We left hot, smelly (lean closer to the screen maybe you can smell it), dirty, stinky, kitschy Melaka (Malacca in English) a UNESCO Heritage city for hot, smoggy, steamy, rainy (this is welcome to clear the air) Kuala Lumpur (KL), the capital and the biggest city of Malaysia. Continue reading “Kuala Lumpur”
It was surprisingly easy to travel by bus in Malaysia. If you remember, we arrived in Malacca, our first destination on Malaysia, by bus from Singapore. Continue reading “Buses in Malaysia”
End of May
It is hard to imagine that this modern, multicultural, sophisticated, effective, and should I add futuristic and utopic city-state, began its existence in its current representation only 54 years ago. Continue reading “Singapore”
Is the summer gone already? One disadvantage of long-term travel is missed seasons. Continue reading “Where has summer gone?”
Adelaide and Darwin: what do these two cities have in common? To begin with these were the last two Australian cities we stayed in. Continue reading “Adelaide and Darwin”
Still April
Cairns was not on my initial itinerary, but after talking to Gary, our Australian neighbor, we decided to squeeze it in for a few days and try to visit Daintree National Park and the Great Barrier Reef. Continue reading “Cairns”
Included in our package, aside from breakfast at dawn in the desert, which we covered in Part 2, were two excursions. Continue reading “The Ghan: Part 3 – Side Trips”
May 19
We arrived at the Adelaide Parklands Terminal about 2 hours before departure, as we had been advised by a staff member the previous day (Alex: besides, we were excited to get going). Continue reading “The Ghan: Part 2 – Our journey”
May 19, finally we are aboard The Ghan. It was one of the highlights of our 3 months journey. Continue reading “The Ghan: Part 1 – Introduction”
Sat, May 4
The skies in the mountains were stunning today. Rae, our driver/tour guide picked us up from the hotel. Continue reading “The Blue Mountains and Darling Harbour”
Fri, May 3
Arriving at Sydney airport late in the afternoon, it was very easy to find our way to Hornsby, some 40 min by train from the city centre. Continue reading “Sydney”
Chiang Mai has been hyped by many and for years. I had read a lot about it, and Alex had watched several videos of people extolling its virtues. Continue reading “Chiang Mai”
It actually is “Bangkok, oriental settings”, however the first time I heard the song One night in Bangkok, I thought it was “city” and it stayed with me that way. Continue reading “Bangkok, oriental city”
It was very slick, very well-designed and POOF, my phone was gone. We know who did it, how they did it, and that we’ll never prove it or get the phone back. Continue reading “Pickpocketed in Bangkok”
…or was it “One night in Bangkok”. Remember that song from the 80s? It was rather popular in Europe, methinks. Continue reading “One day in Bangkok”
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