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I have wanted to travel for as long as I can remember; to get out and see the world beyond the safe and relatively happy little bubble of Blightly. I have travelled a little in Europe and with my mother being South African my visits out there have really given me a taste for venturing out of the bubble; just me and my camera.

Nov '07 - Bought my RTW ticket (leaving 3rd of March,thank you very much!) and the plans have changed ever so slightly! Basically I switched round; now starting off in Joburg and ending up in New York, with a whole load of craziness inbetween. Itinery now including the introduction of a month in China and doing Central America solo! Opps! And damn STA said i couldn't go to Adu Dhabi, ah well, next trip!

3rd March - Joburg - Cape Town - Hong Kong - China - Thailand - Laos - Vietnam - Cambodia - Singapore - Australia - New Zealand - LA - Mexico - Guatemala - Honduras - Belize - San Fran - Grand Canyon - Colorado - Canada - New York - Home.

And all pretty much on my tod .... what have I got myself in for?!

p.s. sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes, before you all comment! yes, I know, good education down the drain! but I am a crappy typer and I think it's more fun to write in the way that things come out of my head, so you will just have to get used to it! xxx

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By Fawkes
September 3rd 2008

Cuddle a Koala? Kiss a Croc? Hello Oz!

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

stunning colourings

Ok so there was a point in singapore where I almost changed my flights. I wanted to stay in Asia so badly that I almost sacked off Oz completely. I know I'm crazy; Australia is normally the first stop, the most exciting place for people. Everyone seems to want to go there; to travel, to work, to stay. I always wanted to come here but I was worried; I loved the way the countries i'd visited worked, the craziness of it all and I felt that traveling in a westernised country wasn't going to be as fun or give me the [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
September 1st 2008

Singing in a pore-ing rain storm

Asia » Singapore » Little India

Art and design collage

How to ... drink in Singapore We had heard many contrasting views on Singapore and when we arrived in the pouring rain I have to say we were less than impressed. We could barely see outside the windows of the bus to actually see the views of the city at we were entering. We ran straight into a cab and into our hostel. Luckily we were put in seperate rooms because Sam had a drunk freak in hers and I had two of the coolest chicas you'll meet in mine. As it was Sam and I were both knackered after the [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
August 26th 2008

Tea, Butterflies and Big Phalic Odes To Manhood.

Asia » Malaysia

Petronas Towers
KL

My Hero! sorry we thought you were going to kill us ... Running through no mans land to get to the other side of a border crossing before they close is never a good way to enter a country. But there we were, me and one of the Irish girls we'd met in Chumpon, running hell for leather with our backpacks for about 1 km from the Thai border; just to get to the Malaysian border before they closed for the night. Now I'm no runner but with all the other girls lagging behind, me and Irish girl No1 (please don't [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
August 19th 2008

Full Moon Rainbow

Asia » Thailand » Andaman Coast

Boats
KPN

Bangkok must've known we were arriving because they put on the most beautiful display of lights; the streets were strewn with twinkling white lights; just for us. (or maybe it had something to do with the Queen's birthday, I don't know for sure!) This was to be my last time in Bangkok and we got up to about as much as I have on my other times here i.e. nothing! We had enough time to book our bus and boat to Koh Pha Nang, buy some dresses and that was about the extent. Some people have told me how much they [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
August 11th 2008

'Doing' Angkor Wat with an 'Angkor What?! Hangover' after 2 too many Angkor Sunsets...

Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap

Contemplation
Bayon

Phnom Penh We decided only to spend the minimal amount of time in Phnom Penh due to the amount of bloody rain and the fact that we were told that the Full Moon Party was actually two days earlier than we had thought or planned for - Opps! We went to see the main 'attractions' of the area which are S21 museum and the Killing Fields. Now my history is appauling and although I had obviously heard about these things before I had never really learnt about them; and as with the war in Vietnam anything you do hear is normally [View Full Entry]

Roots slump themselves on the ancient stone

By Fawkes
August 6th 2008

Vietnam - Part 2 - Da Lat/Ho Chi Minh City/Mekong Delta

Asia » Vietnam

Beautiful Lotus

Oh My God - I can't do this! Da lat is pretty easy to talk about; the main thing about it was a) finding some great food b) CANYONING! Andrew and i arrived half a day before sam and Matt and were able to seek out some accommodation before they arrived. We sampled the Vietnamese speciality the Clay Pot that evening and obviously anything with ginger, lemongrass and chilli is always a winner! Then the next day was reserved for the one recommendation we'd had for the area which was Canyoning. The girls on the boat on Ha Long Bay had [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
August 1st 2008

Vietnam - Part 1 - Hanoi/Ha Long Bay/Hoi An/Nha Trang

Asia » Vietnam

Rock and roll all night

Lets play Charades children ...... Purrrrleeease?! Not the most imaginative title I could've come up with but it does what it says on the tin. We really had to race through Vietnam even with the extra couple of days we had accumulated by not being able to stay longer in Laos. The four of us (Sam and I and a pair of cool Canadians we met in Chiang Mai and Laos) went to a great little hotel in hanoi's old town and sweated our arses off trying to find a fairly cheap place to eat that wasn't outside on the crazy/honking/hot [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
July 22nd 2008

....Well it is Monsoon Season

Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang

Heaven
Hill Top Temple sunset in Luang Prabang

I heard the putting of cars, padding of feet and pitter-pattering of the rain before I felt the cold hard concrete beneath my face. I slowly but surely lifted my body off the floor and everything came into view - the weak morning sun straining to get through the rain clouds and the streets of Luang Prabang that were coming to life. We weren't home and free yet; yes, we might be in the right town and yes, we might have more luck in the light of day but we still hadn't found our bloody hostel and yes, I was still [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
July 17th 2008

The travellers curse and how Hope kissed it better

Asia » Thailand » Chiang Mai Province » Chiang Mai

Monk and flowers
sunday walking streets

The Travellers Curse Tom and I arrived in Bangkok - back in good ole Rambuttri and were greeted with the ever happy Ellen and the fact that my sister was still in bed at 3pm! Realising I was going to be arriving in Bangkok the day after Sam was due in I got a bit worried, thinking she'd be angry, but I knew a Dutch bombshell who'd be in Bangkok at the same time and make sure her trip got off to a good (drunken!) start. So Sam was so hungover she still wasn't out of bed to greet us after [View Full Entry]

By Fawkes
July 8th 2008

And they called it Paradise ....

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan

our first view of the Island at sunset
Gili trawangan

Matt and I were moan, moan moaning about the stupid bus ride from hell as we drove through the streets of Kuta in Bali, streets lined with bars and life and the beach just metres away, when Tom turned round and said - "Will you guys shut up; we're in BALI!" To bloody right to be fair, we were on our way to the tropical delights of the Indonesian Islands and all we could do was moan about the journey getting there! We had another all nighter because it was the final of the Euro and our transport across to the [View Full Entry]