Travel memories / Multiple countries / Colombo
Asia and Oceania
A long journey from Sri Lanka and India through Southeast Asia, then on to Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Indonesia.
Dates: June 2014–July 2015
Travelling: Bryan
How it felt
Beginning in Sri Lanka, this journey continued through India, Myanmar and Thailand, where a longer stay gave the trip a slower rhythm. The route then crossed to Australia and New Zealand, before reaching Vanuatu and returning to Southeast Asia through Indonesia, Bali and Borneo.
From busy cities to islands and long stretches on the road, the entries follow a journey that unfolded over more than a year.
Highlights
- Starting in Sri Lanka and travelling onward through India
- Exploring Myanmar and spending an extended stretch in Thailand
- Crossing to Australia and New Zealand
- Visiting Vanuatu before continuing through Indonesia, Bali and Borneo
Stories from this trip
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- Koh Tao our Summary
- Bryan Swims around Koh Tao
- Paul comes to see us
- Snorkelling from a boat around the island
- Visa run to Malaysia
- Bangkok & Temples...!
- Jody is off on her own....again!
- Old friends and new Friends
- Time to recover
- The worst boat trip of our lives!
- A wonderful day to remember
- Paradise
- Our epic journey to Borneo
- Our two weeks on Bali
- Around The Island Trip
- Vanuatu - Our Summary
- Tanna Island and Mt Yasur Volcano
- Around Island Trip
- Another paradise Island
- New Zealand - Our Summary
- Around the Coromandel
- Road Trip to Auckland
- Welcome to 'Middle Earth'
- Trekking over 'Mount Doom'
- 4 years on - devastation and an old friend
- Australia - Our Summary
- The Wines of The Hunter Valley
- Day out being silly
- New Years' Eve - Under The Stars
- Manly beach - Bold and Beautiful
- Watsons Bay
- Sydney with Bryan's cousin Nigel
- Our tips when travelling by air
- Our journey to Sydney
- A beautiful day for messing about on the water
- Just sunsets and storms
- Two weeks to relax and top up our tan
- Thailand - Our Summary
- This is what it is all about
- Another day, another island
- The beach at last!
- Off to the beach again. .....eventually!
- Wanalee at last
- Chiang Rai & the White Temple
- Chiang Mai (means New City)
- Amazing to see the Lantern Festival
- The day we caught a train!
- Myanmar - our summary
- Sun rise at Ubein Bridge
- Mandalay
- Boat to Mandalay
- Temples Temples everywhere - day 2
- Temples Temples Everywhere - day 1
- Off to Bagan
- Wow - think we are going to like it here
- Paradise or Neil Island as it's better known as
- Waiting for Bryan
- Bridge on the River Kwai
- Market day!
- Back on familiar soil
- 2 nights in Bangkok
- India - Our Summary
- Diving in the Andaman Islands
- Paradise part 2 - or Havelock Island
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Andaman Islands at last
- Beautiful Sundarbans
- Oh my gosh - how dirty is Kolkata???
- Delhi for the last time....Maybe!
- The Himalayan Queen - Railway to Delhi
- Shimla Town
- Back in the Himalayas
- Back through Chandigarh
- The best thing we have seen in India!
- Amritsar and the massacre
- The Golden Temple
- Chandigarh Rock Garden
- Gosh it's very clean here
- Back in Delhi :-)
- Why did we come back here???
- Largest temple in India
- Madurai city tour
- We finally made it to the 'Blue Peter' Temple
- Houseboat on the backwaters of Kerala
- Snake Boat Racing
- Tea plantations everywhere
- Rain rain and Fort Kochi
- Ummmm! not much to do here
- Sri Lanka - Our Summary
- Bye Bye Becki & Josh. Bye Bye Sri Lanka
- Whale Watching in Mirissa
- More Elephants :-)
- Hot! Hot! Hot!
- Under-whelmed!
- Worth the effort
- Elephant Safari
- An unexpected Treat
- Kandy & the Firewalkers
- Little England
- Train through the Mountains to Nuwara Eliya
- Beautiful Ella
- Yala Safari
- Kataragama Festival
- Pretty town
- Chilling out
- Galle and a day trip in a tuk tuk
- Sri Lanka - Our first day in Colombo
- Sri Lanka - Our first day in Colombo
- Farewell, Goodbye, Aufwiedersein Adieu