INTRO
If I'd try to write ..
Certainly not the end of The journey…
From the 01.January 2009 until 01.July 2009
(11.July 2009)
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From Tokyo i traveled by bus to the west coast to catch the ferry to Vladivostok...
South Korea
CHINA
VIETNAM
Ho Chi Minh City
I’ve got a motorbike therefore I am!
Like pretty much everywhere in Asia a giant "cable salad"Vegetarian cuisine at it's best in Vietnam they trying hard to make it look like meat - success.
Ha Noi
Ho Chi Minh mausoleum
National flag of Vietnam - where can't you see them?
The tiny allies of old town noisy bustling chaotic.An ocean of motorbikes...
Maggots for breakfast - yummy!One of many street stalls.
CAMBODIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia
I visited Cambodia only very briefly not even for two weeks. I just went into it's capital and the ancient temples of Anchor.
Crossing a land border with Laos cutting through, from the north first to Phnom Phen and then to Siem Reap.
North Cambodia - port in Stoeng Treng.
The Temples of Anchor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat
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The Buddha - Siddartha Gautama.
Incredible stone carvings in the main temple Anchor.
It is still a place of worship unfortunately through restrictions by the government only marginal.
LAOS
Mekong River
MYANMAR
Around Mandalay
Monks study Pali Sanskrit in Mandalay.
Bagan, around 4000 temples, stupas and pagodas in all directions...
Point your finger on a random spot you'll always hit on one of them.
Inle Lake local market
Inle Lake
Schwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
THAILAND
Transfer stop for two nights to meet Maya and to catch the plane to Myanmar.
MALAYSIA
Certainly not the best reputation for Malaysia but reality and therefore true.
A shocking inside!
The National Art Gallery of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur with it's temporary exhibition called Palestine.
INDONESIA
>...So I left Australia after 51 weeks and exactly two years after I started this trip and arrived in Bali on this tropical harmonic island.
In Adelaide's airport I met the probably coolest Australian in the entire year, how ironic.
We flew together to Bali and spend the first two days in Kuta which I personally think is nothing but a shit hole.
Despite the fact that one can really easily forget about the rest of the world there though because of the quiet affordable luxury which is very tempting to let your self fall for.
After two nights in Kuta I went to Lombok, aiming the Gili Islands to get my advanced dive ticket done.
LOMBOK and GILI ISLANDS
In Lombok on the way to Gili I met Marty and Janette from Canada.
We traveled the Gilis, Bali and Kuala Lumpur together.
After The Gilis I went back to Bali to a wonderful place in central Bali
called Ubud.
BALI
KECAK DANCE
THE MOTHER TEMPLE
HOLY SPRING TEMPLE - HOLY BATH
I left this highly spiritual place quiet impressed and changed
to Java...
JAVA
GUNUNG BROMO
YOGYAKARTA AND AROUND
PRAMBANAN - ANCIENT HINDU TEMPLE SITE
BOROBUDUR - ANCIENT BUDDHIST TEMPLE
JAKARTA - CAPITAL INDONESIA
Terima Kasih dan sampai jumpa...
AUSTRALIA
I spend an entire year in
I bought a car, I had two bank accounts, a tax file number and all kinds of stuff.
I enjoyed this life not all the time but most of the time even though I had to work hard sometimes.
I enjoyed the nature the vastness the beauty the emptiness the felt infinity of the country. I liked very much living in a car a home on wheels something to hide away in if you want - total independency!
When I parked my car on the countless beautiful remote spots in
Life has so much to offer so much to give.
On my trip I came across many people and places and saw Australian way of life.
It indeed is easy going just as it is famous for Australians are taking life easy
a way of life where there seem to be no place for worries! Mate!
That is the biggest lesson
It’s hard to keep up with that though.
I guess that is manly what makes it imperfect to me and is not considered as a place for ever to live in for me.
Anyways
On the down site - I came a cross quite a lot of racism, because even though all these really great facts about
The indigenous Australians so many of them find them self in rather miserable situation: poverty, addiction, violence, crime many are caught between two worlds their own traditional one and our godless modern world – nothing works.
The cooler jobs were the construction of a giant tent for a broken passenger aircraft,
The 9 days on a 35m pearl boat with many whales sightings and
The work and traveling with a carnival!
The very and the last month in
I am a big fan of this very pretty city of