Indiana Ken

Ladies and Gentleman, we're starting to wind down here in Hong Kong. I leave for the United States on January 9th. But, I still have a month left here in China. But, would it be appropriate for me to leave Asia on such a boring, downturn note?

Hell fuckin' no.


I'm doing a 23-day trip into Asia. That hand-written ticket is my ticket from Hong Kong to Beijing. Yea... plane ticket is hand written. How cool is that? Here's my travel plans. Links brought to by Wikipedia, the wiki-est pedia out there.

• December 16th - Hong Kong to Beijing. My friend Johannes from Germany and I will travel the Forbidden City, The Great Wall and other parts of China's capital.
• December 19th, evening - First-class train from Beijing to Xi'an. We will arrive in the morning of the 20th. Xi'an is one of China's most ancient cities. Hopefully we will see the Terracotta Soldiers, ancient pagotas, etc.
  
• December 22nd, morning - Fly from Xi'an to Chengdu. Chengdu, also another very ancient city has.... pandas!!!!! Yay Pandas! In Chengdu we will meet Jordan from Canada, and prepare for our trip into...
• December 24th, morning - Fly from Chengdu to Lhasa, in Tibet. I will spend Christmas in Tibet. That will include the Patola Palace, Tibetan monestaries, the highest lake in the world.
  
• December 28th - Johannes leaves us, he has great and wonderous things to see. But, Jordan and I continue on to Shigatse and Mount Everest Base Camp. Hot.... or... well, more cold. Things get a little, unexact here, because of where we are going from to where we are going to. We however, before New Years eve, will arrive in...
• December 31st - Kathmandu, Nepal. Shangri-la. We will spend three days in Nepal, seeing the scenary, and other stuff. I'd give you specifics, but there's just too much.
• January 4th - We fly from Kathmandu to Dehli, India. We plan to visit Agra, where the Taj Mahal is, and also see what we can in India during our limited amount of time.
• January 7th - evening. I fly back to Hong Kong, via Malaysia. I would like to get out, get my passport stamp and get back in my plane... hehe, yay passport stamps.
  

That's it. I will then fly back from Hong Kong to Los Angeles then onto Phoenix on the 9th of January, spend a few days in Phoenix with the folks, and then onto:

Columbia! Probably stopping in St. Louis to see Danny and Ian. That's like what, Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Lhasa, Shigatse, Kathmandu, Dehli, Agra, Khula Lampour, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Phoenix, St. Louis, Columbia... 13 city destinations in a month? Woah.

I plan on blogging as much of the trip I can. We are heading into parts of the world that are pretty much cut off from civilization. However, I cannot express how excited I am! Please, let me here your comments.

Please Mind the Gap -- and Mount Everest.
~Ken