tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54251782864478071202011-12-07T15:38:27.137+01:00One year of traveling. Anywhere I want to go. Perhaps each continent? You will find out if you follow my blog...because even I don't know yet! During my trip to the most interesting and random places I will share my interesting, boring or funny experiences. Have you been to Wagga Wagga?Frederikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870992876944050753noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425178286447807120.post-74622374920803726552011-03-03T13:11:00.011+01:002011-06-20T10:39:38.759+02:00

A second month in China spending with friends and with 萌 passed by very quickly, but with many changes. Again as flexible as I am, I deal with all happiness. Because when something does not work out, there is always a different solution which I really look forward to.My plan was to travel from Beijing to Tibet, cross the border to Nepal and continue to India.To be allowed into Tibet, a permission

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The end of a new year (can you remember it was new?) is almost passing just like these almost 60.000 kilometers that I passed so quickly. And I am still on the road finding my long detour back home. Whether this home is my home-country our a new home will be told by time, but 8 months were not enough to find this place. This flat world is not small enough.Pretty much every day I think back. I

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Photo: Old post office filled with graffiti at Kota Kinabalu - 12/12/10Being rich with time, I was 'overstaying' in the city of Kota Kinabalu, so I've started asking around what means the word Kinabalu, used for both the City Kota Kinabalu and the mountain Kinabalu.The first person was a father with who I was sharing my table at the bus-station restaurant during lunch, about 1 hour before the bus

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Photo: While ascending to 3272mtrs, ¾ of Kinabalu - 10/12/10The breakfast in the hostel would be starting at 7.00h, so the previous night I set my alarm to 6.45am. The next day I would be climbing the highest mountain of South-East Asia; Mount Kinabalu, on Sabah, Malaysia. A few minutes past 7.30am I found myself walking along the road to get to the entrance of National Park Kinabalu, another

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Photo: All wrapped up on Borneo, Malaysia - 19/12/10Since I did not make it to the top of Mount Kinabalu, and in meanwhile I returned to Kota Kinabalu from a trip to Kuching, in Sarawak, I thought I'll give it another go, and to be more sure of reaching the top, I thought to climb to mountain in one day up, to the top, and down again. Because during the night there is a bigger chance of rainfall,

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Photo: Time for tea in laid-back Chengdu, China - 06/11/10Perhaps there is no answer to the question what China actually is. Or maybe there are a million different answers and opinions. And just as you think you understand it, you find out that the opposite is true. Perhaps it is impossible to understand into detail, this very interesting country.There is a lot of contradiction for example in the

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Photo: Business and skyscrapers - Nanjing, China - 18/11/10One day of wandering around is what I allowed myself in Nanjing where my night train brought me early early in the morning. It was still dark outside when I looked through the windows of the train onto the modern platform. Most of the Chinese clocks were about to announce 6.00am.First trying to find the left luggage windows to leave my

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Photo: West lake at Hangzhou, China - 11/11/10In China it is very easy to rent bicycles, and this way of transport is promoted quite a lot to the tourists. After a good night of sleep in the hostel next to the west lake, I decided to go and rent a bike and cycle around town. It's quite a place, and most of the points of interests are spread around the city and the lake. Also I was told by some

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Photo: Mountain Huangshan, China - 17/11/10In the hostel in Shanghai I met Julien from Belgium. We got along pretty well and we both planned to climb Mountain Huangshan, a few hundred kilometers west of Shanghai. We planned to go on the Monday or Tuesday and checked for the weather forecast which gave us some disappointing information....clouds and light snow!!! Not exactly what you hope for to

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Photo: Train station of Shanghai, China - 15/11/10A matter of being flexible in China too. While in a touristic town full with canals and many interesting views, I met an English chap, Ed, who at his turn met two Chinese tourists. The four of us spent the day walking around in the city, and the next day Ed and I where leaving for the train station. Ed taking his train back home to a town outside

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Photo: Chengdu, China - 06/11/10Six months after my departure, I found myself on a big airbus a319 heading for the airport of Chengdu, located more or less in the middle of China. This country was among my list of countries to which I have been curious when I was a child.China, is a whole new experience for me and it is so different than the countries where I have spent my last 6 months! To be

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Photo: Istanbul, Turkey - 16/07/10Once my visas for Azerbaijan and Iran were arranged I could finally really move out. I should aim in between the two compass needles of the South and the East, however at this moment I couldn't really be bothered to look at the compass (my brother gave it as a present before leaving) as I allowed my captain, flying for blu express, control the integrated compass

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Photo: La Alhambra, Granada, Spain - 15/05/10See also:The three Flamencos of Spain - Part 1The three Flamencos of Spain - Part 2It's been some time ago already, but that last flamingo was still out there waiting for me to be given shape, colors, a character and simply to be written about. While I am sitting in the train in Italia. To give you an image of my situation, it's the train from Pisa to

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Photo: Napoli, Italia - 09/07/10 Somewhere along the road, I started meeting people, started spending long days in discovering places I was visiting. In our whole life we are bound to assign priorities and make choices. We prefer to do what we like to do, and in a life without or at least with hardly any responsibilities, I think people end up only doing what they like to do. And why not! I

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The walls for characterization the country and symbolization of the book. Check out each face in this post.

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Ok ok, then also some photo's of Iran!This was in the village Masuleh, build in the mountains. Fresh air and a lot of nature!It's character is recognizable for the houses build in the foot of the mountain with a very sharp angle, so one persons from pavement is the roof of the front door neighbours. I spent my time in Masuleh with Ainova and Oscar from Barcalona which was loads of fun! Coño! I

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Yessss finally an update!But I am afraid I have to disappoint you, since these are only two photo's from Morocco.No new exciting stories of Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, nor Iran.I haven't found much time, nor inspiration to write new stories, but I hope I can share some hot news soon! But first these two photo's I forgot to put online.The big square in Marrakech. During the day it's an 'empty'

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Everbody must have heard some time about the people who share theirknowledge about countries and capitals in the world even when theirgeneral knowledge is not as strong as others'. The jokes about somepeople saying 'ah, France, thats the capitol of Paris!' or theother one where they say that Amsterdam is that country in Europewhere people can smoke a joint in the coffeeshop....I have experienced

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Two months ago when I was in Lisboa for a few days, Paulo took me to his friends to have a dinner. Me being in the middle of proper Benfica Lisboa fans, I was telling Joao about my trip around the world. He was impressed and he decided to abuse me to promote his own club! Nearly propaganda!He gave me a scarf of Benfica and made me promisse to show that the world loves Benfica!Enjoy the first

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Photo: Bull-fights, Sevilla, Spain - 09/05/10For the people who speak Dutch, I like to ask you to have a look atReishonger.nl where I wrote an article about my curious visit to abull-fighting game where I experienced a very mean game of killingbulls in a harsh way which I will never support any more in any way.Reishonger.nl: Stierenvechten: een ooggetuigeverslag

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Photo: In the dunes in Morocco, playing the tamtam big time!Yes, where am I?? When was the last post?? You people must have stopped checking the blog already....no update, no update, no update.I had a tooo great time in the desert of Morocco playing the tamtams, as you see on the photo :)No, actually I HAVE BRILLIANT NEWS!!! Today I received my visa for Iran! Mister Ahmadinejad allows me to visit

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Almost two weeks the Moroccons have me on a visit. You start gettingused with being in Morocco. No longer the tiniest little things remindme of being in Morocco, and the chaotic chaos starts to become normal.Nothing will shock me anymore, and I am prepared to see the mostunexpected. The perfect example I had yesterday. Everything together.On a simple terras in Chefchaouen belonging to a bar, I

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What I was looking forward to the most of coming to Morocco was a, for me unique visit to the sandy dunes in the desert of Morocco. Arriving in Marrakech I planned to travel up north via Meknes, Fez, Chefchaouen, Melilla(Spanish teritory) with destination Nador.With the western Sahara - which actually does not belong to any country but very stubborn being claimed by Morocco - being too far to the

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Having started with he biggest and most touristic Flamenco, it was time to move on to the second: Córdoba.Happy as I can be, I bought myself a train ticket in the train station of Sevilla Santa Justa. This would be my first train trip in Spain and afyer spending the last few hours walking around in the city of Sevilla, I found myself returning to the train station. Exit Over-tourism!A short trip

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After leaving my dear friends in Lisboa, Paulo and Alvaro dropped me off at the train station from where I took the train to Faro, located at the south coast of Portugal. To me famous for beauty of the English golf players ;)Once arrived at the platform of Faro station - a glance at the clock told me it already started pointing out the hours in the late afternoon - I hoped to still be able to

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A little late, but finally I have managed to put some photo´s online!Please continue to my flickr account for photo´s: milesofcultureSo far you can see the photo´s from:Gran CanariaTenerifeLisboa

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André and I discovered something beautiful on youtube, check it out!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0You have been Rick-Rolled!

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Once arrived inn Portugal at Oporto airport, I quickly grabbed my bag from the carrousel soonest it appeared, and I strabbed it to my back. Just as I looked around me to see where the exit was, I saw that I was the last one to leave the bagage area. I realised in acomplete different way what the impact is of handlugage-only travelers...with some people carrying whole suitcases aboard.In meanwhile

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With it's 3718 meters above sea level, el Teide and Tenerife can call themselves the proud owners of the highest point of Spain.Me being on Tenerife had to visit this previously active volcano. Since it used to spew lava around the years of 1600 and 1700, the area is covered with dry solid pieces of lava.Near the top you can see several mountain peaks close to eachother which used to be separated

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Last Monday I made my way to the Hague and Utrecht for a last visit to my friends before leaving for the big trip. I left the Hague with a happy belly full of sushi! Dennis and Rianne took me to a Sushi restaurant: all you can eat in 4 rounds and a real surprise desert! For this surprise desert we could choose from three different flavors of ice so it turned out not to be a surprise at all and we

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Yet, I have never made my way to Africa, but soon you can find my footprints also in the deserts of Morocco. Morocco is a complete different destination than all the other trips I have made so far.Two years ago, my curiosity for Morocco started growing. This country started climbing higher in my list of places where I want to go. Last year in November, it made a huge jump forward on this list

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A ferry of the company Naviera Armas will asure my connection between the harbor of Las Palmas and Tenerife. Tenerife is the proud owner of the vulcano El Teide. With it's height of 3718 meters, is El Teide the highest mountain of Spain which I will definitely pay a visit for a good days hiking.After a visit to the Piramides of Güímar, and a few more days of sightseeing, I will find myself

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Gran Canaria!! The Spanish islands are my first destination.I have decided to go to Gran Canaria first, to visit Marta & Andre, friends I met in Manchester. I am glad they are happy with my decision as you see on the photo. This morning I booked the flight to Las Palmas for a fairly good price. Flights to Gran Canaria, with it's warm temperature all year round, tend to be sold quickly so I

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To visit each country in Europe, that is my target I have since 2006.Thanks to the many low-fare airlines, I have managed to visit 60% of Europe already. Mainly via city trips or backpacking during summer holidays.Only 40% to go! I hope to have visited pretty much all countries after my trip.Click on the map for a detailed view

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In google maps I have created a map, indicating all the places I like to visit.I am still working on the map, so soon more places in Amercas and Africa too!Leave a comment if you think I should visit a place not indicated on the map!

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