For a bit of a different wrap, here’s my favourite photo from each country we have visited on our journey through 2013 and 2014. We’ve visited some incredibly beautiful places, and it was very difficult to pick just one photo from each country but here we go…
Originally I had a plan to keep track of a couple of different things to see what our progress over the year was like. As the year went by, those numbers were collected and stored as a blog post to share with everyone when the trip was over… and then a realisation occurred. It was …
Overall what we did: 5 days in Malaysia wandering around Kuala Lumpur 3 days in Singapore 13 days in Thailand split between Phuket and Bangkok 12 days in Cambodia split between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh 49 days in Japan, mostly in Osaka with a week in Tokyo and day trips to Wakayama, Kobe, Koya-san …
So, now that all of that travelling has been done over the past year, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back on what happened to my pack after a year of travelling. You can find the original post here. What survived and what didn’t RIP to sunglasses lost on Patong Beach, …
Total time spent on the road: 14 November 2013 – 24 October 2014 About 9 months (not including time spent in Australia) Continents Visited: 5 Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Australia Number of Countries Visited: 30 (including Australia) Number of Cities / Towns Visited: 85 Countries were we visited the most cities or towns were: …
Ah, last final bit of ‘travel’ if you could call it that for the year off. It was a brief stop back home to Kangaroo Island. A very relaxing day and a bit on the island watching dolphins swim past and enjoying the beautiful weather. Couldn’t have asked for a better couple of days 🙂
Overall what we did: 12 days split into: 3 days in Beijing, 2 days in Xi’an, 1 day in Hangzhou, 2 days in Suzhou and 4 days in Shanghai from 11 October 2014 to 24 October 2014 Favourite part of China: Would have to be climbing the Great Wall. The food was also pretty good, …
I’ll keep this post nice and short and let the pictures do (most) of the talking. Our experiences with the food in China was a bit of a mix. Some of it was nice, but there was quite a bit of it which was very disappointing. I guess because we were on tour and moving …
Today was a fun day. As our final full day in Shanghai, we decided to head exploring north and try to find the old district called Nanxing on the northern end of the Shanghai subway line. We didn’t have a problem with the subway, but we realised after we arrived at the final station that …
Today was our first proper day by ourselves wandering around Shanghai. We spent the day wandering around the Nanjing Street area as well as going for a walk through the Peoples Park in Shanghai. The air pollution was pretty bad today, so we didn’t move too quickly or far (was very glad to have a …