5th Sep 2015 Booking a trip eventually to see the irrawaddy dolphins indigenous to the Mekong, and the waterfall on Don Khong we started our mini adventure. A bike tuk tuk across Don Det and the bridge to Don Khone for about 30 minutes, then a boat to the the main island. We saw several …
Category: Travel Blog 2015-16
Journal entries from my year out solo backpacking round the world August 2015-June 2016
Creative Meal making…
Now being sonrelaxed and time to slow down, think, appreciate and savour life and living that travelling has brought me tomso far, I didn't feel too hungry last night after late lunch and breakast, so went out about 9 pm to find street food but almost all closed and gone! So I decided to get …
What’s today? Yes, wats today!!
This was my pland, and what I said to myself this mornin, which made me smile! I visited two very different and unique wats in Ubon Ratchathani today. One by the Mon River, what a lovely name, which I'd meant to visit, and surely Wat Supattanaram is the pretttiest gardens ever, and so peaceful! Huge …
Directions need direction!
This communication post is motivated by my experiences in Asia where little communication and therefore direction is given to me and other 'tourists' about what is goibg to happen and when/why whilst moving place to place i.e. travelling the continent. For some reason the local 'travel agents' and drivers don't appear to recognise a need …
Novice Monks on Facebook
After setting out to explore wats and city today, I spent an hour talking to 7 young monks/novices todat at Wat Ong Thu! Learning English and studying it there at the table, they invited me to sit and chat. So I met Novice Souk, Soukkhy, Somkit, Boun, Jo, Apple and monk Somsaiy (between 15 and …
From pictures to reality…
A most amazing day at Tat Kuang Si waterfalls outside Luang Prabang, Loas! it was breathtaking, unreal - something I've previously only seen pictures of or on TV. Huge amounts of water pouring from a mountain top and steep drop into lots of deep pools you could swim in all the way down. I walked …
Travel traumas!
Difficult day today after a noisy, cold night (tes, cold!). The Oldtown Hostel I booked online through Booking.com was different to my first experienced at Hua Hin with shared dorm ok but shared showers/toilets for a floor. And mine was at the other end of course. The air con turned on and off all night, …
Beliefs and Bhuddism Philosophy v Religion
As I am currently travelling in SEAsia, namely Thailand and this week Loas, I am exposed to Bhuddist temples everywher- lierrally, everywhere. The recent shrine bombed in Bangkok, shrines to offer prayer to on roads, temples and monks along the streets I walk and today, on top of a hill, others on mountain tops and …
Thailand on the move
Transport in Thailand appears to be mainly bike or rather scooters, as they go about 20mph and weave around cars, buses, people and each other. From whole families of child in front of dad driving, child between him and mum or even a babe in arms more than once! Children are used to travelling his …
Elephant Trekking
I had the best time today on the elephant trek!!!! Scary being unbalanced then the NZ girl said centre self and follow the elephants flow which worked! sat on her neck, hands in her head but felt I was pushing down too hard even for her; and she was a bit stroppy, didn't want to …
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