MirmurR travelling 0 Mumbai, India 06-JAN-2008 21:04:45 0 Goa - Benaulim 09-JAN-2008 16:06:00 0 Hampi, India 12-JAN-2008 20:17:00 Unesco World Heritage site after a overnight train ride 0 Mysore, India 13-JAN-2008 20:36:00 0 Bangalore, India 16-JAN-2008 20:32:00 Day stop on the way to Mysore 0 Ooty 22-JAN-2008 20:43:00 After a long bus ride... 0 Cochin 24-JAN-2008 20:48:00 0 Kumily 27-JAN-2008 20:50:00 0 Alleppey 27-JAN-2008 20:54:00 0 Trivandrum 31-JAN-2008 17:23:00 Actually it was Neyyar Dam - 40 minutes drive east of Trivandrum. where we were in an Ashram. 0 Kanyakumari 12-FEB-2008 17:25:00 0 Varkala 14-FEB-2008 17:26:00 0 Pondicherry 17-FEB-2008 17:27:00 0 Kolkata, India 19-FEB-2008 17:28:00 0 Bodhgaya 21-FEB-2008 08:31:00 0 Patna, India 23-FEB-2008 17:33:00 Evening stop-over while changing from a train to a night bus heading to the boarder town of Raxaul (boarder to Nepal). 0 Raxaul, India 24-FEB-2008 05:37:00 Change from a bus to a horse carriage to Birganij 0 Birganj 24-FEB-2008 07:38:00 Sister town of Raxaul on the Nepalese side. In those days looked like a ghost town due to strike. You do not want to spend there a night anyhow... 0 Simara 24-FEB-2008 08:40:00 We got to Simara yet again after a two hour horse carriage ride. We had a choice of either horses or bicycle rickshaw. 0 Kathmandu, Nepal 25-FEB-2008 17:42:00 After yet another overnight bus ride we finally got to Kathmandu. 0 Pokhara, Nepal 28-FEB-2008 17:43:00 0 Annapurna Base Camp 10-MAR-2008 07:27:00 We made it all the way to the Annapurna Base Camp 0 Bandipur 18-MAR-2008 00:41:00 First stop on our virgin motorbike ride in Nepal 0 Sauraha 19-MAR-2008 12:17:00 Royal Chitwan National Park 0 Tansen 21-MAR-2008 10:23:00 Last stop on our motorbike tour 0 Patan, Nepal 24-MAR-2008 22:26:00 Beautiful beyond words! 0 Bangkok, Thailand 27-MAR-2008 22:28:00 Back to civilization... 0 Koh Tao - turtle island 30-MAR-2008 22:30:00 Some relaxing on a wonderful island - we also learned how to dive ! 0 Ayuthaya 10-APR-2008 13:43:00 On the way north we stopped in Bangkok to get some visas and made a day trip to Ayuthaya - former capital destroyed by the Burmese 0 Chiang Maii 12-APR-2008 12:47:00 After a 16 hour bus ride we managed to get out of Bangkok and arrive in Chang Mai to be made totally wet by new year festivities 0 Sop Ruak 16-APR-2008 13:05:30 Actually our trip through the Golden Triangle took us through Chiang Rai, Mae Sai, Sop Ruak, Chiang Sean, Mae Salong, Tha Ton, Chiang Dao and back to Chiang Mai where we gave our motorbikes back to the rental company, 0 Mae Salong 21-APR-2008 20:18:15 0 Chiang Dao, Thailand 22-APR-2008 20:25:06 0 Sukhotai 24-APR-2008 20:29:31 0 Vientaine 26-APR-2008 19:43:03 0 Vang Vieng 03-MAY-2008 22:01:41 Tourist ghetto in the middle of Laos - that was our next destination 0 Luang Prabang, Laos 06-MAY-2008 17:32:45 Yet another exhausting bus ride to a tranquil destination...more as usual on our blog http://mirmurr.blogspot.com 0 Phonsavan 07-MAY-2008 17:53:04 Place still to be discovered by tourists and cleared of mines by the international community...worth going to just to understand how terrible is the situation with land mines... 0 Hanoi, Vietnam 10-MAY-2008 17:59:46 Actually we took a bus to Vinh in Vietnam and yet another overnight bus to Hanoi from there...we arrived exhausted in the morning what seemed at first like a light version of India 0 Cat Ba Island 16-MAY-2008 21:19:14 0 Hue 18-MAY-2008 21:47:32 0 Hoi An, Vietnam 20-MAY-2008 07:35:54 0 Nha Trang, Vietnam 24-MAY-2008 07:57:09 0 Dalat 25-MAY-2008 14:52:37 0 Ho Chi Minh City - Saigon 27-MAY-2008 08:03:09 0 Chau Doc 28-MAY-2008 20:47:21 0 Phnom Penh, Cambodia 30-MAY-2008 20:49:03 0 Kampot 02-JUN-2008 22:46:10 0 Sihanoukville, Cambodia 04-JUN-2008 12:34:28 0 Siem Reap, Cambodia 07-JUN-2008 12:38:50 0 Yangon, Myanmar 12-JUN-2008 12:41:20 What was a very easy flight from Bangkok to Yangon, started as a nightmare. We wanted to get to Thailand by bus from Siem Reap and on the border between Cambodia and Thailand got to know that we cannot enter Thailand because there is no visa on arrival...we had 24 hours to make it somehow to Bangkok to catch the flight to Yangon... 0 Mandalay, Myanmar 16-JUN-2008 12:26:20 0 Bagan, Myanmar 19-JUN-2008 11:03:42 We have visited one of the treasures of Myanmar - beautiful and without any tourists...Though only 150km from Mandalay the bus ride takes 9 hours 0 Yangon, Myanmar 24-JUN-2008 11:09:30 Back for one day after a grueling bus ride to catch a plane to Bangkok 0 London, United Kingdom 27-JUN-2008 11:07:31 To get in London we actually had to go back to fly to Bangkok to catch a plane to UK. For a sake of simplicity I have not included these trip in the journal 0 Buenos Aires, Argentina 09-JUL-2008 23:52:53 We made it to the Tango land !!! 0 Lima, Peru 11-JUL-2008 08:22:24 We took a 4,5 hours flight to Lima - we thought it would be a short hop to Inca´s...then we visited the beautiful main square... 0 Trujillo, Peru 13-JUL-2008 17:39:41 0 Cusco, Peru 24-JUL-2008 16:34:02 After two nights on buses we arrived in Cusco. We had a brief stop in Lima to see Pachacamac ruins...Quite a journey... 0 Pisac, Peru 17-AUG-2008 12:00:54 After being stuck in Cusco for three weeks we went to Pisac market in Secret Valley 0 Machu Picchu 30-AUG-2008 12:40:14 Our weekend trip by train to Aquas Calientes and Machu Picchu... 0 Lima, Peru 27-SEP-2008 15:07:28 We made it to Lima again after 21 hour bus ride and ended up in the nicest district in Lima - Miraflores. We have also seen the best shopping mall - at least in terms of location - carved into a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean!!! Incredible - the Lima icon pictures was taken there... 0 Sao Paulo 29-SEP-2008 18:44:40 0 Paraty 01-OCT-2008 18:02:29 0 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 03-OCT-2008 10:43:17 Short bus ride from Paraty and we ended up in Rio...in beautiful settings...though cities are not our thing this one is captivating 0 Ouro Preto, Brazil 07-OCT-2008 00:26:47 Gorgeous town which no one should miss if ever visiting Brazil... 0 Iguazu Falls 09-OCT-2008 13:43:31 We went to this beautiful place both on Brazilian and Argentinian side...we have also found our favourite bird - the Tucan. It was a long two night bus ride from Ouro Preto...we had though a break in Sao Paulo... 0 San Ignacio 12-OCT-2008 19:53:32 Jesuit ruins near Posadas in Argentina - long bus ride though all of us where quite disappointed 0 Salta, Argentina 14-OCT-2008 02:14:03 We made it to the place where we were to eat the best steak ever... 0 San Pedro de Atacama, Chile 15-OCT-2008 13:18:32 0 Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia 17-OCT-2008 13:22:58 A 3 day safari through the beautiful salar de Uyuni... 0 Potosi 20-OCT-2008 15:21:32 Amazing mines in all sorts of ways :) 0 Sucre, Bolivia 22-OCT-2008 23:48:21 Heavenly place!!! No miss in Bolivia!!! 0 La Paz, Bolivia 24-OCT-2008 23:52:44 0 Arequipa and the Condor Canyon 19-DEC-2008 14:09:11 Great tour to Arequipa and even better to the Condor Canyon - never take an organised tour - we took a private one and felt like kings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0