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6 février 2014

Jaisalmer

The fort of Jaisalmer is the only fort in India where people still live inside. That gives it a unique atmosphere with vendors everywhere. We stayed in a hotel inside the fort with next to our room, the "restaurant" which you can see on the first picture....

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2 janvier 2014

Amritsar

After spending two days in New Delhi, we headed up to Amritsar. The main attraction is the golden temple. A temple surrounded by water and recovered of gold. 750 kg exactly. But the beauty is not only in its architecture, it's actually mainly in the spirit...

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21 décembre 2013

Mysore 2

On our last day in Mysore, we went to the flower market. Indians use flower a lot to decorate, donate to the temples, put in their hair, marriages... This is one of the best atmosphere I ever experienced in a market: so rich in colors! We then took a...

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26 novembre 2013

Second day in Cameron Highlands

We spent the day doing a programmed tour. When the 1994 range rover with bull horns on the front picked us up in the morning, it was pouring rain! Our day was starting with a 3 hours hike in the jungle to go see the rafflesia or the largest flower in...

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19 janvier 2014

Udaipur and Jodhpur

The next 2 cities we visited were Udaipur and Jodhpur. I think they are the most beautiful cities we visited so far. The main attraction for both places are the old forts on top of the hill dominating the city around with huge wall and gigantic doors...

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25 novembre 2013

Cameron Highlands

We left the heat from the coast to go in the mountains of Cameron Highlands. The trip from Maleka to Tanah Rata took us 8 hours by bus. As I mentioned before, the travel by bus is really developed between cities, very cheap and really comfortable. With...

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21 novembre 2013

Petronas towers, Sultan Abdul Samad building, meeting with Ezry

Before I left Canada, I contacted Ezry through flickr. He lives in KL and takes some really nice pictures. He nicely proposed me to bring me to some places in KL for night photography. He drove me to 2 places that are one of the best spot in KL. 5 of...

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15 mars 2014

Hoi An

Hoi An was by far the highlight of Vietnam. Lovely town with lanterns everywhere, really charming. This is where I rented a motorbike for the second time. I really liked it the first time and now I love it! We went to see the ruins of My Son. Beautiful...

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25 février 2014

Wuhan, China

We spent 25 days in Wuhan with Sylvie's parents. We visited her grand parents at the hospital and enjoyed the Chinese spring festival with uncles, aunties and cousins. I even got scared playing with fire crackers (ok the thing would be classified as dynamite...

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6 mars 2014

Halong Bay

We took a bus to Halong Bay city and embark on a boat for 2 days. The weather was not great, very fogy so we could not see very well the beautiful landscapes of rising limestones rocks recovered of jungle. And the agency where we booked the cruise lied...

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21 novembre 2013

Batu Caves, Bukit Bintang

Batu Cave is the most popular Hindu shrines outside India. The statue is really impressive! And the highlight of the day was the monkeys carrying their baby. We spent the rest of the day in Bukit Bintang, the shopping and entertainment district of Kuala...

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23 novembre 2013

Melaka

We spent the last 2 days in Melaka, a town 2 hours south of Kuala Lumpur. In Malaysia, the buses are really popular, they have huge bus stations that look like small airport. Melaka is really touristic and attracts every weekends tones of Malaysians and...

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3 décembre 2013

Second and third day in George Town

Those are more pictures from our stay on Penang Island. We then took a boat to Langkawi island. Our original plan was to go on tiny islands on the east coast of Malaysia peninsula but they closed them to tourists because of the bad weather. Voilà quelques...

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6 décembre 2013

Langkawi

We arrived in Langkawi 3 days ago, so far, it has been raining almost all day every day. Today only, the weather cleared up so we could see the true colors of the island. We really enjoyed a small pool by a waterfall where we could cool down. Really peaceful!...

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14 décembre 2013

Madurai

We are now in Madurai, city of temples, 350 km East of Cochin. We travelled by night train and it took 12 hours. The train goes extremely south of India before heading north again, making a 700 km trip. All I can say is that the night was short! :) We...

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13 mars 2014

Hue

We visited the old capital of Vietnam, it is a fortified citadel inside the city. The emperor used to live there. It had been entirely destroyed by American bombs during the Vietnam war. It is still under renovation today (or should I say reconstruction!)...

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2 mars 2014

Hanoi

Our first destination in Vietnam was Hanoi, the capital. There are not so many bicycles anymore but mostly motorbikes. Small motorbikes and scooters everywhere! People are sitting outside small restaurants to eat on tiny stools and tables of less that...

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9 mars 2014

Ninh Binh

Ninh Binh is in the middle of beautiful rice fields surrounded by mountains popping out here and there. We rented bicycles to ride around the countryside. Very enjoyable moments! Ninh Binh est beau milieu de champs de riz entouré de montagnes de pain...

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22 avril 2014

Ho Chi Minh

Our last few days in Vietnam were spent in Ho Chi Minh, a huge city of around 10,000,000 inhabitants. Very busy, with incredible amount of motorbikes. I didn't feel comfortable enough to rent one because of the craziness of the traffic. We took a tour...

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21 décembre 2013

Hampi

We took another night train from Mysore to Hospet, we then took a rickshaw to Hampi. After a bumpy road of 12 km, we arrived at an absolutely magnificent village. With 500 years old temples surrounded by a river, massive boulders, palm trees and banana...

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29 décembre 2013

Ajanta and Ellora caves

Respectively at 110 and 35 km from Aurangabad, the Ajanta caves and the Ellora caves are a series of temples directly carved in the stone where a solid rock used to be. They didn't carved pieces and put it them together like a regular construction but...

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30 novembre 2013

George Town, Penang

We spent the last 3 days in George Town, on the Penang island. Beautiful city with a mix of architectural cultures like I've never seen before. You can find an Indian temple, a mosque, a church, a Burma temple, a Thai temple, a Chinese temple and old...

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7 décembre 2013

Going around Langkawi

The island is around 20 km long and does not have a good public transport, so we rented a car, a tiny one with steering wheel on the right so I could drive on the left side. Easier than I thought! I'm totally used to it! Today we went to a new waterfall...

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11 février 2014

Agra

Our first day in Agra, the fog was pretty strong so we could not see the Taj Mahal from our hotel (which was located only 500 meters from the entrance of the Taj Mahal). On our second and last day in Agra, the weather cleared up and we went inside the...

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16 avril 2014

Mui Ne

The attraction of Mui Ne are sand dunes, huge sand dunes in the middle of no where. The town being right by the ocean, we bought fresh see food directly from the fishermen on the beach and bring them with us to a local restaurant to cook it for us. The...

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