Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Question and Answer Travel Summary


Here is a list of questions and answers which kind of summarise our experiences, for good or ill.
  1. Number of times Tam was mistaken for a Russian: 6 (India)
  2. Number of times Dylan got mistaken for a Kiwi: 3 (it was the leaf-print hat)
  3. Most recommended destination: How could we not say Bhutan?
  4. Most used foreign phrase: "Chelo" (get out of the way, go away) and "Dost" (friend) (both in India)
  5. Most sought-after dish: Cheese momos
  6. Favourite drink: Pocari Sweat (electrolyte drink) and lemon, honey and ginger tea without the ginger
  7. Most enjoyable activity: Riding Royal Enfield in Darjeeling (Dylan), seeing Orang Hutans (Tam), sledging concrete walls (both)
  8. Worst journey: Train delayed by 9 hours and waiting at Indian rat-infested train station 7pm until 4am.
  9. Number of rats at rat-infested train station: 87. Just kidding, I didn't really count them.
  10. Dodgiest transport: 3 hour trip in a public van with our bags on the roof (not tied) which slid back and forth whenever the van swerved.
  11. Weirdest person met on our travels: A man called Rajiv, who claimed he foresaw our meeting in a dream and that he had been born more English than Indian.
  12. Most intense experience: Michael Jackson fan, oh and self-flagellating Muslims
  13. Most mosquito bites at once: 12
  14. Best hotel stayed in: A woodfire cabin in Bumthang, Bhutan
  15. Dylan's favourite confectionary: Dinos-X bubblegum and candy Marlboros
  16. Tam's favourite cake shop: Darjeeling Cakery
  17. Dylan's favourite Indonesian phrase to bug the locals: "Berenang tanpa pakaian, ya?" (I swim without clothes, yes?)
  18. Pushiest salesmen found: Agra, India (at the Taj Mahal)
  19. Countries we visited that we didn't ride a motorbike in: Bhutan (we drove a car instead)
  20. Cutest animal seen: Toss up between baby elephants and baby Orang Hutans
  21. Most value for money item purchased: Ear warmers (AUD$3) and "shonky" TVPhones (imitation iPhones) for $120 each.
  22. Worst pop song listened to: "Shining like a setting sun, like a pearl upon the ocean, come and feel me, come and feel me" (India)
  23. New skills Tam learnt from Dylan whilst travelling: Skimming stones (Bhutan) and blowing bubbles with gum (India)
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