Monday 22 January 2007

Plans for the next trip

Hi all

Well it's not long until we set off on the next leg of our trip. Our round the world tickets have been booked and Debs has been busy planning. For my part I have been doing very little, adopting the more laid back and vague approach to travelling. All of this has been much to Debs annoyance!
Anyway the plan so far, is as follows. We leave for Japan on the 30th January, spending about a week in Tokyo. Taking up Debs friend Pippa's kind offer of somewhere to stay. We then head to Sapporo, just in time to visit the worlds largest 'Snow Festival'. From here we head to Dewa-sanzan Volcano (which we hope to climb) and then Mt Fuji (which we wont be climbing!). Next is Kyoto for a few days, including a trip to Nara. Then we head to Hiroshima and finally Kokura to see Debs friends and old work colleagues.
From Japan we then fly to Bangkok via Singapore (don't ask!) and then spend the next 4 months travelling back to Singapore. No real plans here, but hope to get to Brunei, maybe Myanmar and several of the Indonesian islands.
We leave Singapore on the 1st of July, heading for New Zealand where we will spend the next month travelling from Christchurch to Auckand.
From New Zealand we go to Tonga for a week and then Samoa for 2 weeks, possibly taking in Fiji while we are there.
Finally we land in Los Angeles for the last leg of our trip. We plan to take in some of the west coast, before heading to the East coast and hopefully visiting some of Debs relatives. If all goes well, we will be in Hawaii for Debs 30th Birthday before flying home from Orlando on 10th October.