S.E.Asia Part 25: Russia - The Road to Vladivostok, Shipment to the USA.
Date: Monday 20th September 2010.
Our watches are turned forward one hour so it is an early rise at 7.30 and to a 4degrees morning.
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S.E.Asia Part 24: Mongolia into Russia.
Date: Monday 13th September 2010.
Yesterday we had the vehicles detailed for T40,000 (US$40) and a great job it was. Inside the cab, externally, and under the vehicle was all gleaming.
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S.E.Asia Part 23: Mongolia. Held at Gun Point, Volcanos, Chased back to UB by the Plague
Date: Monday 6th September 2010.
The wind chased us to bed when it started at 8pm and howled all night. We awoke to as similar windy and cold morning. However the 5.30am...
S.E.Asia Part 22: Mongolia. The Remote S E Corner
Date: Monday 30th August 2010
Today we start at 7am because we need to be in Choibalsan by 4pm because we have pre-arranged our permits arrive by plane then from Ulaanbaatar.
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S.E.Asia Part 21: Mongolia. Gobi Desert Crossing, Deer Stones
Date: Monday 23rd August 2010
The China border exit procedure was handled by the Travel Company we are using.
It still takes...
S.E.Asia Part 20: China. TerraCotta Warriors, Strange Signs, Inner Mongolia, Roaming Dinosaurs.
Date: Saturday 14th August 2010
Kumbum Monastery is a series of seven bright and variable buildings.
It is a working monastery...
S.E.Asia Part 19: Tibet. Leaveing Tibet at 5,280m, China-Quighai Provence, New People New Culture.
Date: Monday 9th August 2010
Bill is 60 today, and we plan lamb roast for dinner, to celebrate this milestone.
Guess what this guy is having for dinner...
S.E.Asia Part 18: Tibet. High Mountains Passes, Road Works and Road Blocks.
Date: Friday 6th August 2010
It is very cold but we are still away by our standard 8am. After Chando the road turns north and starts to climb.
We have...
S.E.Asia Part 17: Tibet. Spectacular Scenery, Great Driving, Friendly Monasteries,and Prayer Stones.
Date: Monday 2nd August 2010
In preparing for another day of waiting we hear at around 11am that the big bosses of the tour company have called some favours and we have our VERBAL permits to move.
Camp is...
S.E.Asia Part 16: Tibet. Great Roads to Rawok then Stopped by Landslides
Date: Thursday 29th July 2010
Cold this morning with 6 degrees measuring on our gauge. A few of us also have slight altitude sickness – headache and sometimes dizzy. At this height of 4,500 meters walk 50 meters...
S.E.Asia Part 15: Tibet. 'Highway 318'
Tuesday 27th July 2010
Left town at a late 10am after refuelling and banana pancakes at the internet shop. Andy and Lyn also purchased 3kg of rice for Y12 (US$1.75) however the lady could not understand why only...
S.E.Asia Part 14: China
Sunday 25th July 2010
Today was the best driving day!
The mountains spectacular, the road challenging, the weather great. Wow!
Already the houses are having a Tibetan influence as we climb higher into...
S.E.Asia Part 13: China
Thursday 23st July 2010
Quite a restless night between fighting the altitude sickness, headaches and the very bad, and very loud karaoke singers. I spent the morning resting in the vehicle and by lunch time...
S.E.Asia Part 12: China
Date: Tuesday 20th July 2010
Today was a driving day; we elected to take the longer but more mountainous road towards the large tourist city of Lijiang.
Every corner is a new image to be captured on ‘film’
In...
S.E.Asia Part 11: China
Saturday 17th July 2010
Lyn and I did the market shopping whilst the others refuelled.
Most chickens are sold live in the markets so it was not on the menu. Just to difficult to do all that cleaning, and...
S.E.Asia Part 10: China
Monday 12th July 2010:
All up early and excited about the border crossing into China. The Customs inspection point at Boten is now not operational so we drove the another 20kms to the new border crossing point.
The...
S.E.Asia Part 9: Laos
Monday 5th July 2010
Vientiane was ‘ordinary’, lots of nice coffee shops and pastry shops but after that architecturally not impressive. Walked to find a camera shop for that replacement broken lens, and those...
S.E.Asia Part 8: Laos
Friday 2nd July 2010
Our first mission was market shopping to top up the larder.
With some asking we found the meat section ‘out the back’, and with farmer Michael selected 2 kg of some kind of good looking...
S.E.Asia Part 7: Laos
Tuesday 29h June 2010
A good night and a cool one at that. We are still not sure if the ‘snakes’ were ones that slither in the grass or walk in the grass, in any case all is well.
Our sarong men are now in uniform...
S.E.Asia Part 6: Cambodia
23rd & 24th June 2010:
We slept very uneasily, the music from the karaoke bar went until 3am and then there was the moving of the vehicles in the car park followed by the rooster crowing. Thankfully it was finally...
S.E.Asia Part 5: Cambodia
Sunday 20th June 2010
This was our Lay Day to catch up on everything: washing, grease the vehicle, catch up on the logs and blogs, rearrange some of the things in the vehicle now that we have lived in it for three...
S.E.Asia Part 4: Cambodia
Tuesday 15th June 2010
The border crossing from Thailand to Cambodia was a kaleidoscope of people, transport, and goods.
Amongst the hand carts full of second hand clothes, food, empty buckets and charcoal...
S.E.Asia Part 3: Thailand
Monday 7th June 2010:
Lyn was up early for that morning swim, whilst the local fishermen were casting their bait nets into the ocean earning an income.
Bill’s air conditioning fan motor has stuffed itself;...
S.E Asia Part 2: Malaysia
Tuesday 1stJune 2010
By 11.45am we were on the road. Surprisingly only 2 and half hours after arriving at the port and an hour of that was trying to find the company office and container amongst the acres of port...
S.E.Asia Part 1: Shipping out of Australia
After returning from travelling in Morocco and the UK in 2008 I have been involved in designing and building our expedition vehicle. With that dream now a reality and the company I founded now having built a number...
