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Day 12 – Petra

Today we woke up early at 5 am for our visit to Petra, we went downstairs and grabbed breakfast and a picnic, before heading on our way to the ancient city of Petra at 6 am. When we arrived at the main visitor gate, we got our tickets and walked into the centre, we walked […]

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Day 11 – Amman to Petra

Today after grabbing breakfast downstairs we put all of our stuff onto the bus and drove to our first stop, which was a church on the spot where Moses first saw the promised land. There we saw some remnants of 3 old churches with beautiful mosaic floors. Our next stop was a local Mosaic making […]

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Day 10 – Jerash & the Dead Sea

Today I was woken up by the fire alarm at 5 am, but it seemed to be a false alarm so I decided to go back to sleep. At seven I woke up again and after getting ready went downstairs to grab some breakfast before we left. We got onto a van for our first […]

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Day 9 – Luxor to Amman

Today I was once again woken up by the wakeup call at five and got ready quickly. I dropped my luggage downstairs where I surfed the web for a bit before heading up to the roof for breakfast. We then got on a bus and drove to the airport which had just opened for this […]

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Day 2 – Guangzhou to Sydney

Waking up in GuangZhou at around 5am, we get our stuff together and head to the free continental breakfast buffet. Chinese breakfast. Yes. We have our breakfast noodles and tea, and head out to the free airport shuttle and arrive at the airport. We then realized that neither of us brought hats or sunglasses. We […]

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Day 1 – London to Guangzhou

We flew out from Heathrow to GuangZhou, China, their airport is called “BaiYun” which means “white cloud”. We thought that we would have to sleep in the airport for the 14 hour layover, especially since we would have needed a visa to leave the airport. Once we landed, we followed the sings to transfer and […]

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Day 23 – Agra

Antoine’s phone was still in Nepal time, therefore it was 15 minutes ahead. This meant that our 1:30 am alarm went off at 1:15 am. No one was happy. Luckily it did however, our driver had arrived 30 minutes early so we were ready when he arrived. The sun wasn’t up yet, as it was […]

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Day 21 – Kathmandu

We woke up an hour before our alarm would’ve gone off. We pack our stuff and go down for breakfast. The guide shows up and takes us on our journey, however, he left right before the first one. The driver takes us an hour and a half away from the city to the top of […]

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Day 20 – New Delhi to Kathmandu

The alarm goes off at 5 am. We have a flight to catch. I call an uber and we make our way. The first thing that happens is that we spend an hour in the check-in line, and then we get McDonald’s, some paint, a puzzle book, and brushes, and clay. The day before we […]

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Day 18 – Jaisalmer

We slept in, as we slept till we naturally woke up at 8 am. Grabbed breakfast, grabbed our stuff, and went to our rickshaw. We found a mechanic who diagnosed our rickshaw, there was something wrong with the piston and it would cost 3000 rupees to fix. That is about 50 American dollars. We decided […]

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