This is what we have done so far, and the current plan for where we will go next. We are trying to travel overland (or on water) as much as possible. We also have some “quests” of things to see – e.g. Preserved Communist Leaders and The World Federation of Great Towers. Look at our Lists page to see the full, er, list.
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So much more left to see! For a start:
- Russia: Kamchatka (Summer Solstice), Magadan, Sakhalin
- Russia: Cukotka, Sochi (Winter Olympics 2014)
- Mongolia, The Philippines, Laos, Burma, Macau, Hong Kong
- Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco
- South Africa, Angola?, Namibia?, Zimbabwe (see “Outposts of Tyranny” list)
- Albania (hosts of the Eurovision in 2013, you read it here first!!!)
- Canada (Fed Tower!), Mexico (Fed Tower!), South America
- Cuba – probably just after Fidel dies (see “Outposts of Tyranny” list)
- Antarctica and Blackpool (Fed Tower!)
January-December: Darren’s contract as Operations Manager for Apollo in Hanoi
August Holidays
- North Korea: Pyongyang, DMZ
- China: Tianjin and Shanghai (Towers!)
January-November: Darren’s contract as Centre Manager for Apollo in Hanoi
January: A Balkan New Year
- Turkey – Istanbul; Bulgaria – Sofia, Plovdiv; Hungary – Budapest; Romania – Bucharest
- Bits of Yugoslavia: FYRo Macedonia – Skopje, Pristina – Kosovo, Serbia – Belgrade
January-March: Working in Almaty, Kazakhstan
April-May: Truely Asia:
- India: Jaipur, Udaipur, New Dehli, Channai (Madras), Madurai, Ooty, Trichy, Pondicherry, Mamallapuram, Mumbai
- Singapore, Malaysia (Tower!), Cambodia – those temples, again!
June-December: Working in Hanoi, Vietnam
January-June: Teaching in Russia
July-August: Quest: Former Republics of the Soviet Union
- Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia
- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova
September-December: Deep Freeze – working in Almaty, Kazakhstan
January – August: Back in Nam
- Vietnam: Hanoi – teaching, Ninh Binh, Halong Bay
- Vietnam: Northwest loop – Sapa, Lai Chau, Dien Bien Phu
- Vietnam: Danang – China Beach, DMZ – Khe Sanh, Hamburger Hill
- Central Highlands – Pleiku, Kon Tum, Ho Chi Minh Trail (by motorbike, easy riders)
- Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) – working 3 months, Mekong Delta, Nha Trang
September: Holiday in South East Asia
- Cambodia: Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh, Thailand
October-December: Darren and Jo in Russia – teaching
2006: Siberia Plus
January-June: Work: Teaching English
- Russia: St Petersburg – TEFL course and teaching
- Estonia: Tallinn
July: White nights and the Caucausus
- North West Russia: Archangel, Vologda, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk
- Russia: Smolensk, Moscow, Segeiv Posad, Tula, Oryol, Kursk
- Ukraine: Kerch
- South West Russia: Caucauses – Novorossiysk, Rostov-on-Don
August-September: From the Volga to Lake Baikal and Further East
- South West Russia: Volga Region – Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Kazan
- Cemtral Russia: Urals – Perm, Ekaterinburg
- Siberian Russia: Omsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Severobaikalsk
October: Across China to South-East Asia
- China: Harbin, Dandong, Beijing, Xian
- China: Chengdu, Lijiang, Dali, Kunming, Hekou
- Vietnam: Lao Cai, Hanoi
November – December: Northern Vietnam
- Vietnam: Hanoi – teaching
2005: Europe, Iran and the “Stans”, to Russia
October: Whistlestop tour of Eastern Europe
- Czech Republic: Prague
- Poland: Warsaw
- Belarus: Brest, Minsk
- Ukraine: Kyiv, Crimea, Odessa
- Turkey: Istanbul, Lake Van
November: Into the “Stans”
- Iran: Tabriz, Esfahan, Persopolis (Shiraz), Yazd, Mashad
- Turkmenistan: Mary (Merv/Gonar), Ashgabat, desert
December: Into Russia
- Uzbekistan: Nukus, Aral Sea, Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent
- Kazakhstan: transit
- Russia: Samara, Volgagrad, Moscow (Christmas/New Year)
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Hi Jo and Darren,
I sent you 2 emails via the contact us form on this website. Did you get it?
Thanks,
Thang
I think Jo should know who am I because we have been exchanged emails and snail mails about almost 10 years ago. I hope you are well. Are you currently living in Hanoi and teaching at Apollo? Please do let me know! I’m very interested in getting in touch with you back.
Thanks!
So.. next summer.. the Pines… !!!! Make sure you are ready for a rocking time …
And I will see you in a month … I’ll be the one with the Kachapurri from the Republic of Georgia!
Jo, Nice to see your travel blog. I missed Vietnamese beef pho. Cheers from Penang island, SL Liew