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One week left and we thught it is high time we did a blog for the last three months of travelling!!!!
Here are some highlights of what we have done......
China
Beijing
-Lots of dumplings for breakfast.
-Summer palace
-Ti anamen square
-Forbidden city
-Chicken feet for lunch
Great Wall
-10k trek (took five hours of hard work)
-Flying fox ride from the wall to the hotel!
X'ian
-First experiance of sleep train and a squat toilet!!!
-Terra cotta warriors (guess what they are made out of)
Shanghai
-Had chinese tea in the oldest tea house in china!
Yangshuo
-24hr train ride to get there, very hot very smelly
- Kung fu lesson with master Yang
-Chinese cooking lesson Market tour and saw Dog , bags of frogs and a bamboo rat already for eating!!!
-River cruise to see the mountains!
- Home stay in the countryside
Longji Terraces
-10k walk through amazing rice terraces
- first culture show,we both joined in with a stick dance.
Hong Kong
- Alll skyscrapers in hong kong harbour have lights on outside of them which flash at night in time with the music!!
-The peak (highest point looking over Hong Kong)
- Swine flu breaks out in our group (according to the chinese!!!)
Kaili
-home stay
- we had a cake fight with the locals
- rice wine (the sole reason we had a cake fight )
-we slept up stairs the pig slept down stairs
- another 10k hike.
-karioke with alex and the girls!! ( rice wine)
Vietnam
Sapa- highest point in Vietnam
- Had first western meal in 4 weeks!!!
-5hr trek to another homestay
-Had a wash in river
-Dope growing in fields not to smoke but to use for clothing (yeah right)
Hanoi
-Army Museum (sat on a missile)
- went to see Hou Chi Mins Body ( he was dead!!)
Halong Bay
-Boat trip to Cat ba Island
-swim and cave stop (lots of Jelly Fish)
Hue
-Boat ride on Perfume river
- stopped at few local temples
-Motor bike tour (we didn't drive, Lex had cross eyed driver)
-Another forbidden city
- Saw conical hats being made and insense (we made one ourselves)
Hoi An
-Swimming pool at hotel (spent a long time in it)
-Had shirt, dress and top handmade for us
-cycled through countryside
-saw old temples, schools and lantern festival to celebrate the full moon.
Nha Trang
-Boat trip
-Bamboo basket boat trip
-Snorkled the coral and fish
-Lex had massage on beach
-Steve played volleyball
-Got horribly drunk on a fish tank of alcohol!!!
- one tour member need five stiches!!!
Hoi Chi Min City AKA Saigon
-Chu chi tunnels- Crawled through 50 metres of it, very scary!!!!
-Nice coffee
-War crimes museum (horrific)
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
-Deep fried crickets (we ate them, tasty)
-went to national museum
Home stay (in the Jungle)
-very, very basic
Sihanoukville
-Rained for three days!!!
-went swimming in sea during a storm anyway!
Phnom Penh Again
-S21 prison (Khumer Rouge Secret Prison)
-Killing fields at Choeung Ek
-Interesting but harrowing day
Kompong Cham
-ate tarantulas, frogs,snake and snake egg soup yummy!!!
Siem Reap
-Angkor Wat temple complex (amazing x7!!!)
-Land mine museum
-visited two floating villages
-crocodile farm
-Silk farm
-relaxed in Hammock bar with beer watching suset over rice fields...nice!
-tried terrapin
Thailand
Bangkok
-Last night of tour what can we say other than drunken and informative!!!
Chang Mai
-Went to zoo and saw Pandas
-had Elephant ride, swam in waterfall, whit water rafting and bamboo rafting Steve nearly drowned!!!-drama queen!!
Cooking class (we will be on Thai Master chef next year!!!)
We are off to our last stop of the six month tour for five days RnR on the beaches of Ko Toa. We are sad to be leaving but are really looking forward to coming home to see everyone. We are certainly different people compared to when we left. we are both brown and have lost one and a half stone each!!! See you all soon xxxxxxxxxx
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