Wow it's been over a year since I have posted anything here. As our South East Asia Trip fast approaches I'll dust off this blog and ready it for travel updates.
Our Indian visas, for this trip, arrived April 14 and the stamp inside from our last trip marked April 14 2012 as our departure date from India last year. This is the kind of deja vu we live for!
This trip hardly feels real! It has come together very suddenly!
We were waiting on several factors to determine if the trip was feasible. Admittedly I hardly expected everything to have turned out so ideally! The two main things was the Indian visa and we were waiting to hear if N would get
an engineering position. When
he did get offered a job we were shocked at how willing the firm was for him take this trip
before starting.
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Deuter Futura 28 Daypack |
Now that everything has come together we plan to leave next Sunday
April 28 and hopefully we’re ready to go! (Fortunately we have all our vaccines
because some of those have to be done several weeks before you enter a
country.)
We are trying to pack
everything in carryon because you have to pay $20+ per piece of checked luggage on these internal flight and
we plan to take a lot flight. Packing for two months in only should be interesting. I’m hoping it’s not hard to find razors
in these places. If not I’m going
European for the summer, ick! I’m
not sure how wise it is to travel with no knife or scissors but we are going to
give it a go. We found an amazing
daypack at MEC that I cannot wait to try out!
It’s going to be a busy week
as I finish up my IPT teaching practicum
on Friday. (Needless to say not the greatest time for me to have contracted
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| Best part! Mesh against the back to hopefully reduce sweat stains in +35°C heat |
strep throat.) Nils has his last final exam
on Monday and then he’s finished his degree!
This is our rough travel
itinerary: April 28-June 24
(Mostly for my parents so they
can stalk us throughout our journey)
We leave Edmonton Sunday April 28
2013 at 7:30 am
2 hour layover in San
Francisco
18 hour flight
Fly to Beijing, China arrive Monday
April 29 at 3:15 pm
-check out the great wall
-sleep off our jetlag
Leave Beijing May 2 at 2 am to
fly Singapore, Singapore May 2 at 6 am
-get jetlag again …not the
most well planned
-meet up with some friends who
will tour us around their new homeland J
Leave Singapore May 4 at 1:30
pm - Fly Chennai, India arrive same
day at 5:00 pm
Train to Vijayawada, India arrive May
5 late afternoon
-visit Metropolitan Mission!
-we plan to see some of the
recently dug wells and rice sponsored through the CHILD foundation
May 12 Train back to Chennai,
leaving in the afternoon and arrive in the evening
-spend the night and the fully
day of May 13
Leave Chennai, India on May 13 at 10 pm - Fly Bangkok, Thailand arrive at 1 am
Leave Bangkok, Thailand May 16 - Bus to Siemreap, Cambodia
-check out “Angkor Wok” – It’s
one of the 8 Wonders of the Ancient World huge kingdom/temple ruins
May 19 boat to (the capital)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
-maybe see the “Killing
Fields”
Leave Phnom Penh, Cambodia on
May 22 at 4 pm - Fly Kuching, Malaysia arrive on May 23 at 1 am
-orangutan sanctuary
(rehabilitation centre)
Gunumulu Park, Malaysia
- explore the jungle
- go caving
Leave Malaysia May 27-28ish
fly to Bali, Indonesia
-meet up with some friends J
-hit up the beach!
Travel a bit more around the
rest of Indonesia
Pop back Malaysia
Arrive in Tokyo, Japan on June 16
Leave Tokyo June 18 at 4:30 pm
– Fly to Chicago 2:15pm the same day
…meaning we go back in time 2
hours and 15 minutes? Haha
Fly to Winnipeg, Canada arrive Tuesday June 18 at 8 pm
-visit N’s brother and family
-visit my Aunt and family
Rent a car and drive up to Sioux Lookout, Ontario Friday June 21
Morning for a friends wedding Saturday June 22!!!
-N is standing up as a
groomsmen
Itching to get back into my
Birkenstocks and hit the road again!
I will plan to post lots of
pictures and bold anything important for those who like to skim read haha!
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