That’s a wrap!
Here I am, writing my last diary on this trip. I am actually doing this at the same place where I wrote my first diary (the armchair-place at MBK shoppingcenter). Sitting here I can hardly […]
Happy New Year from Thailand
My new Thai mobile-number : +6652229757 New pictures at: http://www.backpacking.se/PhotoAlbum.asp?TravelId=3785&SubMenu=2 Here is a longer version of the time after my parents came down. Yes, another long diary. 🙂 [img=SofiaD2005_12_29_16_33_32.JPG,164594] In Bangkok we did several things. […]
Merry Xmas from Vietnam!
Short diary! Meeting my parents at the airport was as good as I had imagined. 🙂 We spent a few days in Bangkok, then a few days in Cambodia (seeing Angkor Wat again was amazing!) […]
Laos and back in Bangkok
On Thursday 24th of November we went from Chang Mai in a mini-van to Chang Kong. In the mini-van was a group from Canada (Dennis, his thai-wife Nut, her mom, Steve and Lauren) and a […]
Back in Asia
The trip from Auckland to Bangkok went quite well. It was the new type of airplane with those personal screens so I could choose movies myself. I think I saw 5 movies in 12 hours. […]
Sky-dive in Taupo and the end of my NZ-trip
On Sunday-morning A-M called the sky-dive place to see if the weather was good and it was. They booked us in for 9am so we got some breakfast and then we headed out to the […]
Abel Tasman to bungee-jump in Taupo
Not much happened on Friday, but on Saturday we went from Kaiteriteri on the boat-trip. It was with Wilson’s Experince and the boat was quite big. We spent most of the time upstairs on the […]
From Greymouth to Wainui – includes a seal-encounter ;)
After checking out my new camera for a while we drove on to the pancake-rocks, Punakaiki. It is limestone-rocks that is in layers. Very fascinating, and impressive. It was raining a bit, but we went […]
Franz Joseph to Greymouth
The story continues at Franz Joseph Glacier. We drove to the parking lot at the glacier and walked to Peter’s Pool (a small lake) where we could see the reflection of the glacier in the […]
Queenstown to Fox Glacier
Hello again! Right now we are in Arthurs pass but the story continues from Queenstown. We drove to a place outside of Queenstown to sleep and on Tuesday morning we drove back to town and […]
From the east-coast to the west-coast
[img=SofiaD2005_10_2_4_19_13.JPG,129414] After having breakfast in the car we drove to Purakanui falls. It’s only a 10 minute walk and there was this beautiful waterfall. It was raining a bit but we had our anoraks on, […]
Atom on the way
After we got our new car, Atom, and moved all the stuff to it (jeeeez we got lots of stuff…), we went towards Akaroa. Akaroa is a little town east of Christchurch, and well worth […]
Beginning of the South Island adventures
Mobile-phone: +64212608735 I passed 200 days on my travel! Hurray. 🙂 The ferry-ride was a 3 hour trip and when we came to the South Island we went through a fjord before arriving in Picton. […]
On the road with Sputnik
Mobile-phone: +64212608735 [img=SofiaD2005_9_25_7_12_14.JPG,126990] At 9.30 Saturday-morning we were picked up by a girl from Spaceships and she drove us to their office. We went through all the details with the car and after quite a […]
New Zealand – the land of the crazy and fun :)
Hello all! First of all my new number: +64212608735 ( It’s used by somebody else before and I don’t have the pin-code to the account so don’t use the voicemail. I can’t check it anyways. […]
The big finale in Aussie = Sydney
The last day in Kioloa was sad. I didn’t want to leave heaven on earth but we had to go to Sydney to check that out before flying to NZ. Friday-evening Dale had organized a […]
Great Ocean Road and Kioloa
On Saturday at 18.40 the bus to Sydney left from Byron Bay. They showed a movie on the bus and after that we had a nice sleep. We arrived in Sydney at 6.40 and we […]
Surfers Paradise and Byron Bay
Mobile-number: +61405390692 The trip to Surfers Paradise from Brisbane took only 1,15 hours and when we arrived it wasn’t what we had expected. Then again we should have learned by now that things never will […]
Fraser Island and Whale Watching
The trip to Hervey Bay went smoothly. It was 5 hours and we got to see a movie on the bus. We had a stop at 11am for 30 minutes and there A-M and me […]
Down under in Brisbane!
First of all, here is my new mobile-number: +61405390692 We were off to Brisbane in the evening of the 2nd of August! We thought… Instead we had a 9 hours delay in Bangkok due to […]
Vacation in Chang Mai
Yes, you read it right. We have had vacation. 🙂 After stressing through Cambodia, Vietnam knowing we probably stress through Australia as well, we thought we needed to relax. We decided to spend the remaining […]
Bangkok and Chang Mai – relaxing a bit :)
First of all there are new photos in the album: http://www.backpacking.se/PhotoAlbum.asp?TravelId=3785&SubMenu=2 Second of all I got a new mobile number, +6610355344, but its only valid until 2nd of August. That is when we fly to […]
Hue and Hanoi – the finale in Vietnam
Well from now on it’s English only in the diary’s (and as always sorry for all spelling- and grammar-errors). I’d rather get you all used to it now, since in Au and NZ it’s too […]
Nha Trang and Hoi An
Pa bussen till Nha Trang traffade vi pa Johan, 55 ar fran Eskilstuna. Han ar ute och reser varje ar och har varit i Vietnam ett antal ganger redan. Forsta gangen var 1991, har jag […]
Phnom Phen, Killing Fields and Ho Chi Mihn City (Saigon)
Pa mandagmorgon kakade vi frukost med en av vara nyfunna vanner, Dale, medan Catherine var ute och shoppade det sista innan de skulle tillbaka hem till AU. Vi sa adjo till dem och sen akte […]
Siem Reap and Angkor Wat
Hoppas att ni hade en riktigt bra midsommar allihopa. Horde att det var varmt och svettigt, sa nu vet ni hur vi har det hela tiden. 🙂 Vi firade midsommar med att aka till Grand […]
33 years and still counting! :)
Edit: Mitt Thailandska sim-kort har utgatt sa jag har bara mitt svenska nu. Inte lont att kopa ett nytt eftersom vi aker till Kambodja pa fredag. Tack for alla grattis-halsningar har i dagboken. 🙂 Det […]
100 days and still counting!
Nu har man varit ute och rest i 100 dagar! Grattis till mig, sager jag. :p Faktum ar att tiden har gatt valdigt fort, men anda har man hunnit med sa mycket. Det ar fortfarande […]
Shopping, kultur och svårt avsked
Uppdatering: Nu finns det nya bilder pa http://www.backpacking.se/PhotoAlbum.asp?TravelId=3785&SubMenu=2 Efter tva dagar av ren avslappning vid poolen traffade vi pa Chris och Richard igen. De hade vandrat upp for vulkanen Gunung Agung och var ratt moera […]
Gili Trawangan
Mitt Indonesiska mobilnummer (galler till den 17 juni) +6281933043174 Pa onsdagkvallen blev det forst posten for att skicka ivag min oljemalning, samt A-M och Camillas lampor och sen blev det nagra cocktails pa Fuel eftersom […]
Delfiner och vattenfall
Uppdatering: Nu kan ni se en film fran delfin-turen pa denna adressen http://www.varedalageten.nu/movies/delfiner.html (ca 1.2 MB stor) Dagarna efter att vi anlant lag vi en del pa stranden, men trottnade ganska snabbt pa alla forsaljarna […]
Antligen pa Bali
Forst av allt, har ar mitt Indonesiska mobilnummer: +6281933043174 Edit: Nu finns det massor med nya bilder pa http://www.backpacking.se/PhotoAlbum.asp?TravelId=3785&SubMenu=2 Mycket noje. 🙂 I helgen var vi tillbaka i KL och hade lite shopping pa lordagen. […]
Aterforening och Cameron Highlands
Forst vill jag bara skriva att fran och med imorgon sa galler inte mitt malaysiska mobilnummer, eftersom jag da flyger till Bali, Indonesien. Jag skaffar ett kontantkort dar sa fort jag kan. I torsdags var […]
Eldflugor och Country Club
Jag har upplevt en vecka av ren lyx för en backbacker! Eller faktiskt så har jag upplevt en vecka av ren lyx. Slut på meningen. 🙂 Pratade med min arbetskollega som erbjudit gästrummet, och han […]
Singapore pa tva dagar
Pa torsdagkvallen var vi och kopte biljetterna till Singapore. Det ar alltid en upplevelse att ga in pa en stor buss-terminal. Det ar massor av mini-baes dar folket, som saljer biljetter, sitter och stracker ut […]
KL och IKEA
My Malaysian mobilnumber = +60176103453 Sa har vi da spenderat ett antal dagar i KL redan. Filip och jag har tagit det ganska lugnt med att bl.a se ett antal DVD-filmer dar vi bor. Nu […]
Perhentian – tagning två
Sa var vi da antligen pa vag till var paradis-o igen. Vi tog baten till fastlandet och sen taxi till ett stalle som heter Alor Setar dar det finns en stor bussterminal. Vi hann inte […]
Fran ett paradis till ett annat? Tyvarr inte…
Pga kontantbrist var vi tvungna att lamna Perhentian, denna underbara paradis-o. Det finns namligen ingen ATM pa hela on, vilket inte ar sa konstigt iofs eftersom de knappt har strom pa natterna ens. Nar vi […]
Perhentian Island
Hej allihopa Har kommer en kort dagbok om var vi befinner oss. Internet ar bade dyrt och valdigt langsamt har, sa det blir nog ingen mer uppdatering forran vi kommer till fastlandet eller en mer […]
En helg i Kuala Lumpur
Igar gick vi upp tidigt och akte till Petronas for att koa for gratisbiljetter till Skybridge. De ger bara ut 1280 biljetter varje dag och vi var tva av de lyckliga som fick. 🙂 Vi […]
Kuala Lumpur, en storstad minsann
Efter att vi bestallt var resa till KL i tisdags sa bestamde vi oss for att ta det lugnt, sa vi solade och sen solade vi lite till. Vi var aven och besokte Big Budda […]
Allt ar lugnt pa Koh Samui
Vi hade tankt att aka till Krabi idag kl 8 lokal tid och biljett var kopt, men pga oroligheterna sa haller vi oss till denna sidan av Thailand. Vi vet inte riktigt var vi tar […]
Koh Phangan och Fullmoon party
Efter forfragan via sms (kram pa dig, Nelly :p ) sa kommer har en ny dagbok. I sondags forflyttade vi oss fran Koh Tao med en katamaran. Det var inte den mest behagliga batturen jag […]
Nytt boende
Idag flyttade vi till Sairee Village fran Mae Haad Bay. Vi far billigt boende har for Ann-Marie ska ta Advanced course i dykning. Det ar en nagot battre standard pa detta, men vi klagar inte […]
Heaven on earth?
Nu har det gatt tva dagar sen vi anlant till Koh Tao. Idag tankte vi hyra vespa for att utforska on. Igar var Ann-marie ute och dok for forsta gangen, och det tog hela dan. […]
Dax att rora lite pa sig
Dax att rora lite pa sig Ikvall aker vi VIP-buss samt Katamaran till en o som heter Koh Tao. Vi ar framme ca 9.30 imorgon bitti. Jag vet inte hur det ar med I-net dar […]
Shopping, shopping, shopping
Fortsatte gardagen med att ga till Khosan road dar vi traffade pa Rikard, en annan backpacker. Vi gick till ett stalle som inte lag direkt pa khosan. Mycket mysigt och god mat. Dar satt vi […]
Nu aer vi haer!
Flygturen gick jattebra, men vi kunde inte sova mycket, sa det tog vi igen nar vi checkat in pa hotellet. Sov till halv 4 pa eftermiddagen lokal tid. Oronpropparna gjorde susen, eftersom ac’n forde lite […]