My very FLUID Itinerary

February 4^th – Depart Canada for Bangkok, Thailand - 7:30AM

            Flight Details**: à Calgary to San Francisco

          à San Francisco to Tokyo Narita

                                             à Tokyo Narita to Bangkok

Arrive in Bangkok @ 10:30pm Feb 5^th  -  over 24 hours of travelling! And a 14 hour time difference! Gah its gonna be a long trip all alone to Bangkok!

Upon arrival in Bangkok I’ll make my way from the Airport to the Wild Orchid Villa Guesthouse and wait for the rest of my FNEZ travellers to arrive on Feb 6^th

 February 6- Feburary 26^th  - Free N EZ TRIP

Feb 27^th-March 2^nd – OPEN    I will likely stay in Thailand around the beaches and hopefully hit up the full moon party on the 28^th - I dont think I have a choice, this is bucket list material right here! haha

March 3- Travel to Phnom Phen, Cambodia

March 4^th –April 6   IVHQ Cambodia placement - Human Rights Program

 

IVHQ - International Volunteer Headquarters. This is the organization I will be volunteering with in both Cambodia (5 weeks) and Vietnam (4 weeks)

April 7 – April 13 – OPEN   I will likely travel up to Siem Reap (still in Cambodia) for the week, possibly look into Laos. As volunteers we have our weekends to ourselves to do what we wish so depending what I am able to see on my Volunteer weekends will determine what I do for my extra week!

April 14 – Travel to Hanoi, Vietnam

April 15 – May 11/12 – IVHQ Vietnam Placement      Program: Working with Local NGOs

The last 2 months are VERY open and undecided!

May 11- May 20? – Vietnam tour from North to South

May 21? – June 9 – Bali!

I want to spend time in Ubud, Bali (lots of culture and yoga!) and Kuta (lots of beach bums, surfing and a huge tourist hot spot)

June 10 – Fly out of Jakarta @ 5:55PM

            Flight Details**:  à Jakarta to Dubai

                                              à Dubai to Dublin

June 11 – ARRIVE IN IRELAND @ 12:15PM - Another 24 hours of travelling -  two 8 hour flights and an 8 hour lay-over in Dubai then Hello Ireland!

**June 21 – Richelle and Mark’s Wedding -Scotland**         YEAH BABY!!!!

June 23 – Depart from Scotland to Paris, France  - Ive been waiting for this since I was in Grade 4!

June 26 - Make my way to Italy to meet Mama Steps in Rome then a walking tour along teh Amalfi Coast! What! What! 

 

Hometime - TBA

Prep! Prep! Prep!

OMG the last few months have included endless planning, many distractions and some harsh realizations. I decided in my last semester of University that I wanted to spend some time travelling abroad and I started researching places to go and volunteer and embrace new cultures. It has been a looooong process but now with only 2 weeks to go before I depart for Bangkok, Thailand I am filled with feelings of excitment, anxiety and fearlessness ;) I will be travelling to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bali in SE Asia and then I have the amazing opportunity to see some of my oldest friends celebrate their love in Scotland where they will be getting married, from there I get to end my worldly adventure in Italy with my best friend, my mom. My trip will span just over 5 months, gah!! Who could be more lucky than this girl right here?

I will post a separate post with my very fluid itinerary of where I will be and when - the invitation is OPEN to EVERYONE who is thinking they may want to just pop over to Asia for a mini vacay :P

Now for any of you planning to travel start early because things pop up out of no where! Talk to anyone and everyone! Everyone has something to tell you that you never would have thought of. There are visas, travel clinics and vaccinations, flights, and packing - endless packing and Oh man so much more! For example for Vietnam you need to get your Visa BEFORE you go. I needed to send off my passport, a money-order payment, an application and a passport photo to the Vietnam embassy in Ottawa - I am still waiting, only a little anxiously, for its return. Also I need an excess of passport photos for ID's and visas and bus passes etc! It is crazy and endless. Some of the things on my to do list are due to the fact that I am volunteering but still! I still haven't packed a thing I have a corner in my room full of piles of stuff I think I need to bring with me - I'm guessing half of it will end up staying home haha 

Moral of the story - travelling is overwhelmingly wonderful takes some solid prep :)