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Jump to the full entry & travel map Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand So after hopping from place to place on a pretty much daily basis i decided to have a rest and relax in Queenstown coz everyone told just how god damn good it is and they most definately weren’t lying! We stopped off at the first ever bungy site on the kawarau river where a few ppl were going to jump, by far the best was a member of team Sweden who when jumped decided not to put his chin on his just and face planted into the water…what makes it so funny?? the fact that for the next week his eyes were bruised and looked like he was wearing eyeliner whilst also looking a bit like a dalmation! On arrival first things first you have to go for the famous Fergburger, its almost a religious ritual for when you get to Queenstown and after sampling more than half the menu its clear why, from the little lamby to the big al all the way to cockadoodle oink…each one unique and ore inspiring who cares about their weight anyway! So we took our Fergs and went and sat down by the lake beer in hand looking across the water to the snow capped mountain range…hard life i know! check out …..www.fergburger.com First night out is a big night out with free and cheap drinks and the backpacker haven that is Altitude and World bar which has a strange consept of puttin alcoholic beverages in teapots and then given u a shot glass and away you go

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Adventure capital & home of the Fergburger! — Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand

Jump to the full entry & travel map Dahab, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt Having explored the wonders of Jordan, we decided that as we had a spare week before flying to India we would head to relaxing Dahab in Egypt for some beach time. Not only did the lovely Kay who we met in Petra come with us, but somehow we managed to arrange meeting up with our favourite neighbours and wonderful friends Saby and Marcus for a week

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Meet the Neighbours — Dahab, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt

Jump to the full entry & travel map Potosi, Bolivia While I spent a leisurely morning in the town Sam visited the Potosi Silver Mine with some of the tour group. He will need to tell you about the mine so I will try and persuade him to write an entry but in the meantime I will post a few pictures of Miner Sam. The following is a very late update by Sam who has been enjoying his holiday too much to stop and write… The Mining Tour stated with getting kitted out in house near our hotel – boots, hardhats and attractive yellow suits, I had to lift the trousers up (Simon Cowl style) because the one size fits all was a little tall for me!! Next stop was the miners market where we were taken to buy presents for the miners – we had the choice of tobacco, soft drinks, chocolate, coca leaves (legal only in Bolivia), 95% alcohol drink that came in plastic bottles and of course dynamite and fuses (just your typical Tesco supplies)

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Sam goes Mining — Potosi, Bolivia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Ahipara, North Island, New Zealand Well, I reckon we are about as close as we can to living like the rich, we have beach front, 5* accommodation in paradise, miles from anywhere, spending each day as we please! We have been on a coach tour to the tip of the North Island and then drove back along the beach – fab! We sand boarded – awesome – would have had two goes if we could have managed the walk up the dune!! and ended the day drinking wine and star gazing! Day two; main event – Kayaking – no photographic or video proof – but if we did have – it would have made us millions.

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How the rich live! — Ahipara, North Island, New Zealand

Jump to the full entry & travel map Teaneck, Texas, United States Discount Global Travel Info – Global Discount Travel Stories Trip or treat – Halloween holiday If you want to feel that your holiday is sending shivers down your spine, a trip to Transylvania is the right thing to do (Halloween is almost here anyway).

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Global Discount Travel — Teaneck, Texas, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, Beijing, China Today was a very early start compared to my last few leisurely days. Rebecca and I were going skiing! Skiing is my favourite sport, and I look forward to every winter when we go away to Thredbo to ski. We had to catch the same bus and train as we did to get to the university, but as we were travelling at peak hour, the traffic was worse.

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Skiing — Beijing, Beijing, China

Jump to the full entry & travel map Standley Chasm, Northern Territory, Australia Up earlier and on the road after purchasing a few more supplies from the supermarket and a Cornish pasty from a popular pie store in Alice. We took Larapinta Drive out past the Alice Springs Desert Park. On our way out of town we were past by about 100 motor trikes, sporting bumper stickers saying stuff like ‘Growing old and disgraceful’.

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Surprise stop in Standley Chasm pre- Finke River — Standley Chasm, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Glendora, California, United States The Fijian Islands are littered with beautiful islands and ringed by beautiful reefs teeming with sea critters! Here’s a video from my trip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brGZKYwsNVM I didn’t want to leave the water. I snorkeled and went kayaking almost everyday! I accidentally deleted a lot of my pics and video. I met an Aussie couple who felt pitty on my and they promised to mail me a video of the the Kava Ceremony when we dropped anchor at one of the local villages on some small island! Thank you to them, I’ll have proof that I was the village chief for a day!

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Snorkeling with my GoPro — Glendora, California, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kowloon, Hong Kong Yunnan Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Song & Dance Troupe will perform a repertoire of Tibetan dance from the idyllic land of Shangri-La in January. Group dances Reba Dance , A Tune on the Ancient Road , The Morning Song , For the Love of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road , Love Dance of Nixi , Achimugua and The Spirit of the Drums will represent Shangri-La’s traditional culture.

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Tibetan dancers to HK — Kowloon, Hong Kong

Jump to the full entry & travel map Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Drive to Alice Springs. A LONG, LONG JOURNEY, AGAIN DRIVING THROUGH THE NIGHT, Chris got his first kangaroo kill under his belt, so now only Spencer remains out of the kangaroos kill squad. It was another long, arduous drive of over 2000km, I did the final stink and drove us into Alice springs.

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Middle of nowhere — Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Calgary, Alberta, Canada Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing well! I know this is WAY overdue, but I’ve finally posted pictures from the rest of our trip! From our last days in New South Wales to New Zealand to the rest of our backpacking travels, they’re all up now! Feel free to browse (they’re attached to their respective blog postings) and we’re sorry it took so long! Things have been crazy busy since we’ve been back in Calgary…and we’re getting ready to head back to NS next week for the holidays, so we’re very excited to see our family and friends! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you! Jill and Brian

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Better late than never! — Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jump to the full entry & travel map Nelson, South Island, New Zealand Effe snel een berichtje dat ik bij het vorige bericht nog een filmpje heb geupload. Een kapitein genaamd Abel Tasman die in 1642/43 Nieuw-Zeeland ontdekte. Hij werd “welkom” geheten door de Maori met de haka (oorlogsdans).

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er was eens / once upon a time — Nelson, South Island, New Zealand

Jump to the full entry & travel map Litchfield, Northern Territory, Australia Now just the three of us we drove south to camp in Litchfield national park. A beautiful beautiful place we first came across termite mounds about 30 feet high, absolutely massive! Then our first stop was Florence falls, a freshwater plunge pool.

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Litchfield national park and the salty crocodiles — Litchfield, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Work really is for suckers! It’s always good to get on the road again, this time it was down to Alice to meet Erica who had a conference down there. It is a long way south of Darwin, 1500km to be exact. After filling up the spare 20L jerry can, filling the cooler with ice and loading up the car it was time to get going

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1500km in a day – Darwin to Alice — Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Darwin My first impressions of Darwin were good, its really green and fresh looking, it feels quite modern too. Actually Darwin was completely wiped out in 1974 by Cyclone Tracy and so its only recently been rebuilt

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Darwin and the crazy 70s night out — Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar Day 2 Kalaw – fabulous hotel A real sublime to ridiculous day. Stopped to photograph agrarian workers with their bullock carts and exchanged greetings across the fields – my Burmese is already twice as good as my Thai, i.e 4 words of Burmese – it was a really joyful experience. Drove one and a half hours on the concrete dual carriageway to the new capital (the name of which escapes me) and saw 6 other cars – in both directions, about a dozen motor bikes, no buses, no lorries, 2 tankers watering the saplings down the central reservation and gangs of workers building a foot high retaining wall for said reservation and painting it white and red.

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The Road to Mandalay day 2 — Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar

Jump to the full entry & travel map Taungoo, Bago, Myanmar Oh how I’ve been itching to use that title!! Burmese internet is very slow, and I can’t even get to Travelpod to do my blog, so our full adventures and pix will have to wait till we’re back in Thailand. These are the edited highlights since leaving Yangon.

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The Road to Mandalay day 1 — Taungoo, Bago, Myanmar

Jump to the full entry & travel map Memphis, Tennessee, United States Before setting off down the Great River Road – which of course has the great acronym of GRR – I went for a little culture. The Laumeier Sculpture park was virtually empty and the works on display were mostly really worthwhile.

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Four States in one day — Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, Beijing, China Today was another early start with my placement test due to start at 8am. We had to wake up at 6 so that we could leave by 7, which was a little bit of a struggle after the long day yesterday. We luckily caught a taxi in to the university, while I fretted about my upcoming exam

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BLCU Placement Test Day — Beijing, Beijing, China

Jump to the full entry & travel map Auckland, North Island, New Zealand Headed back to Auckland yesterday early start but no matter, couldnt sleep very well actually due to sleeping bag being more suited to africa maybe not NZ will buy a liner for it along the way the journey felt longer yesterday but still made it to Auckland not a massive fan of auckland itself, just because there really isnt much there, its the capital for work, and many kiwis work here but if youre not working not much else to do back at Kel’s and em and again i asked if it would be ok to stay one more night and they were so lovely to say yes its been a touristy day Kel and Andrew their house mate took me around auckland, we were tryin to lok at cars, not so successful but then went to the largest music store in NZ, andy and Kel are big on guitar! then taken to one of the only black sand beaches in the world it was divine! the iron ore in the sand from the volcanoe, as Auckland is on a volcanoe itself made the beach glisten and the sun beaminng down could reveal the black sands only NZ and Hawaii have it in the world

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got to see a better side to Auckland — Auckland, North Island, New Zealand