Today I woke up at 11:30am! Jeff woke me up in the middle of the night saying that he couldn’t sleep. After that I couldn’t get back to sleep until almost 4am. I woke up sometime in the early morning, heard the rain and went back to bed. Yep. I said rain. Great huh? It Read More »
I shared a rickshaw from Bodhgaya to Gaya station and caught the afternoon train to Mughal Serai. I had arranged with my hotel a taxi to meet me at the station and to deliver me close to the place on the river where my hotel was. It was a short walk through the narrow winding Read More »
Sunday 24th September 6am and Idre presented us with our Beijing tickets, but the only places he could get meant that we are not in the same carriage. In fact we were 7 carriages apart!! A bit awkward when we are sharing snacks, drinks and utensils. Idre was great tho’, saying he’d take us to Read More »
I got a private bus from Udaipur to Mount Abu. It arrived in the early afternoon, in time for me to look around the lake and town the same day. Since arriving in Udaipur the weather has been noticeably cooler, especially at night. Mount Abu is a former British hill station, at altitude: the mornings Read More »
12th: Arrived about 5.30pm, and a group of us headed straight out again for a Maori Cultural experience…with pretty much no idea what we were letting ourselves in for! Were taken out by bus to the Tamaki Maori Village…a ”chief” was selected for our ”tribe” (bus)…well technically 2 chiefs- Pete from our Stray group and Read More »
First stop Rotorua… Waitomo Cave Tubing Put on a wet suit and a hard hat, grab an innertube and descend into the caves. The tour was pretty cool and you get see plenty of glow worms. They are worms that live in the caves and their ass glow blue. In total darkness it looks like Read More »
We left Waitomo at 9.30am and arrived in Rotorua at 12.15pm. The area is famous for having a rotten egg smell caused by its many geothermal areas which seeps into all of your clothes! After checking in to our new hostel we went straight to the info centre for help on deciding what to do for Read More »
7 January 2005 Roturua, NZ\r Taryn: As Dad reported, we had a great time surfing (and attempting to surf\133\133) on Tuesday. That evening we drove about 3 hours to the town of Tauranga to spend the night. Many of the places here have Maori names, which, while often difficult for we Westerners to pronounce, are Read More »
This thing is going to time out in a minute so the writing might just stop and you’ll have to hold on with baited breath for the installment about the eggy city…. Anyway we arrived in Rotorua on Friday afternoon after spending a lovely night in Waitomo at an absolutely fantastic YHA lodge there – Read More »
Gemma: Ha ha! This will teach you all to complain about our lack of blogging – we suggest you settle down with a cup of tea before you start reading, you could be a while… Our desire for a good saturday night out was definitely fulfilled by the funky bars of Auckland’s more upmarket area – Ponsonby Road. We Read More »
