I hopped onto a plane to travel to an island in-between Australia and New Zealand. It is called Norfolk Island, and Shane told me that it is an external territory of Australia. They use Australian money and the TV is also from Australia, but I still needed to carry my passport to visit from Australia! [...]
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I flew on another plane to the big island of Java, it is in a country called Indonesia. The people here speak a similar language to the people in Malaysia. I visited a place called Borobudur, a temple that was built 1200 years ago – it is a very big for a building that is [...]
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After 10 weeks of traveling in the Middle East and East Africa, we arrived in Bangkok. Shane and I were tired after so much travel, so we relaxed and only saw one place in Bangkok called the Grand Palace. The Grand Palace has very important buildings and they were pretty – there were many statues [...]
We spent about one week in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City, in the south of Vietnam. There are two names for the city because the country is still, in the peoples minds, seperated north and south. The north of Vietnam (the side that won the war and are in power) call the city Ho [...]
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We saw a lot of amazing things in Phnom Penh, and some very sad history from the 1970′s when the Khmer Rouge, and Pol Pot ruled the country and did a lot of horrible things. The people of Cambodia were very happy and friendly considering what happened to them though, and everyone was happy to [...]
Polly #2 was quite pleasantly surprised when she came upon this cute little church on a drive through West Virginia. It is located in Horse Shoe Run in rural West Virginia, which is south of Deep Creek, MD on Rt. 219 at Silver Lake. It is a Roman Catholic Church. It is called “Our Lady [...]
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After a really long bus ride from Bangkok we made it into Siem Reap, in Cambodia. Siem Reap is home to the world famous temples of Angkor. They were built by the Khmer people between 800 A.D and 1400 A.D. and cover a huge amount of ground, with many temples of many sizes; some that [...]
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What can I say about London? I love it! London is such a wonderful place to visit because of all the wonderful sights to see and all the history everywhere. One thing I really enjoyed was seeing everything in real life that I’ve only seen on TV, in pictures or have read about. It’s [...]
