Goodbye! Summing it up…

999,999 Total KM’s Covered (check out our Google map!)
?!@#$? Money Spent
6,720 Pictures Taken
5,416 Meters – Highest Point Visited
1,322 Mosquito Bites
230 Days on the Trip
72 Cities Visited
67 New friends on Facebook
39 Blog Entries
30 Stomach Problems (gotta love India!)
27 Long Distance Bus Rides
20 Dives
14 Train Rides
9 Flights
5.5 # Of Languages we learned how to count up to 5 in
5 Countries Visited
1 Home
-150 Lowest Point Visited

Hope you had fun following us around Asia!

You have our phone #’s, don’t be shy to give us a call!

Until next time,

Love,
NoaAyal

Thailand – Islands in the Sun

We came to Thailand in order to vacation after this long hard journey before we came home, so we made our way as quickly as possible to the Islands!
Our vacation on the islands started with Ayal having a 39 degree fever which passed just in time for the “Full Moon Party“. A crazy party with over 5,000 people on a small strip of beach drinking from buckets of joy..

From there we moved on to some under water fun – diving! The diving was nice, but we felt that nothing we saw could compare with the underwater life at Andaman islands – so we might have to go back there one day!
So after many fruit shakes and working on Noaa’s tan we are now back in hot and humid Bangkok enjoying our last Pad Thai’s and some final shopping..

Check out the pics:
http://gallery.atpic.com/20109

Love,
NoaAyal

Macau – NoaAyal hits the casinos!

Our 2nd visit to Hong Kong only focused on one thing.. buying a laptop! and of course some jewish studies with our friendly hosts..
from there we quickly moved on by fairey to Macau.
Macau was a Portuguese colony until only about 10 years ago when the Chinese and the Portuguese came to some agreement in which Macau was returned to China. Their is still a heavy Portuguese influence in Macau – most of the locals speak Portuguese and loved speaking Spanish with Ayal which apparently looks spanish. The streets signs are all in Portuguese a little Chinese and maybe English.

Macau is China’s Las Vegas! with over 20 casinos on this small island it’s really hard to avoid going into one, or 2, or maybe even 5 !!
Most of the hotels/casinos weren’t as fancy as Las Vegas, BUT, Macau has its own MGM, Sands and Venetian (the exact replica of the one in Vegas). These are the 3 casnios we decided to donate some pocket money to (as they are all owned by jews!).. thank god we only had 24 hours in Macau before our flight to Thailand other wise we might have had to shorten our trip

Check out the pics:
http://gallery.atpic.com/20108

Sorry, no pics of the casinos.. no cameras allowed!

Love,
NoaAyal

Shanghai – Come to my tea show!

Many foreigners decide to settle down in Shanghai, a city which has many western characteristics.
Shanghai is known for it’s tall buildings and the “band” (the promenade which goes along the river side). Shanghai also has colonial buildings and small traditional chinese streets which reminds us that it is still a city in China. Shanghai isn’t as crowded as Beijing but it’s still a pretty hectic place! check out this video showing how pedestrians, 2 wheelers and heavy traffic run harmoniously.

In Shanghai you will find many English speaking Chinese, mainly many “friendly students” who would like to practice their English with you. A little bit of small talk which shortly after turns into an invitation to a “traditional tea show” in which after you would drink some tea you will soon find out YOU are the star of this show having to pay a ridiculous amount of money for that small cup of chai. Don’t worry, we didn’t fall for this scam, instead after learning the rules of this new game we could spot out these students and decided to invite them to OUR traditional tea show… they weren’t humored as much as we were
Shanghai has a lot of great night life to offer and has some extremely fancy bars and restaurants around down town.
This was our last stop in “mainland” china so we decided to leave with one more chinese experience.. oysters on a grill!?!

Off to Hong Kong!

Check out the pics:
http://gallery.atpic.com/20107

Love,
NoaAyal