Our rough travel plans

Rough Travel Plans 22nd April fly out from London Gatwick 23rd April land Beijing China 23rd April - May stay in Happy Dragon Hostel Beijing (booked) http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Happy-Dragon-Hostel/Beijing/31433#availability Activities: - Great Wall Summer Palace Forbidden City/Tiananmen Square Aquarium Zoo Gardens 2nd May train from Beijing to Xian (12 hours overnight sleeper) – (booked) 3rd May – 6th May stay at Sage Hostel in Xi’an (booked) http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/7-Sages-QixianYouth-Hostel/Xi-an/14477 Activities:- Terracotta warriors Walled City 6th May train from Xian to Chengdu (15-21 hours sleeper) 7th May- 9th May Chengdu Activities:- Panda sanctuary - http://www.panda.org.cn/english/ 9th May train from Chengdu to Chongqing (5-12 hours – poss. sleeper) 9th May – 10th May - Chongqing 10th May - 13th May: - River cruise on Yangzi River seeing 3 gorges, route: - Chongqing to Yichang (3days) 13th / 14th May train from Yichang to Changsha (8/9 hours) 14th/15th May train from Changsha to Guilin (8/9 hours) 15th May – 17th May Guilin Activities:- Dragon Backbone Rice Fields 17th May Train from Guilin to Nanning (6hours) 18th May – 20st May Nanning? Activities:- Gareth work with Acet? - http://www.acet-international.org/ 20th /21st May Train from Nanning to Hanoi (Vietnam) Vietnam 22nd May – 25th May Hanoi Train from Hanoi to Hue May Hue Train from Hue to Danang May Danang Train from Danang to Nha Trang May Nha Trang Train from Nha Trang to Saigon (Ho chi men City) May Saigon 6th June Saigon to Phnom Penh (Cambodia) Cambodia 6th June – 16th June Phnom Penh With Bob and Pam doing work and go to see the killing fields - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030110_tvcambodia.html Bus from Phnom to Penh to Siam Reap 16th June – 22nd June Siam Reap 5days Activities:- Angkor Watt - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668 Ta Prohm temple – where tomb raider was filmed J 22nd June Bus from Siam Reap to Thailand Thailand Going to Chantaburi to visit a group run by acet (who Gareth works for ) http://www.houseofgracethailand.com/index.htm we are with them for about 5-6 days Chang Mai – again visiting a project run by people Gareth knows also hoping to ride some elephants and see some waterfalls J then to Bangkok for few days – lots of nice food and massages here J then to Pattaya to see my old manager who is on secondment for 6 months working at this project - http://www.ywamthai.org/tamar/ Ferry from Pattaya to ..... Train to Phuket Then onto Phuket HOPEFULLY to learn to dive J Train/ferry to Ko Samui - to snorkel/dive/lay on the beach for two weeks J 13th July Ferry/Train back to Bangkok 13th / 14th July Bangkok 15th July fly out from Bangkok 16th July land London Gatwick 16th – 20th July between Kent and London 20th July back home to Chester