We took off on wednesday to go to guadalajara to search out wedding rings and a dress and a suit. no dice on the rings, so we picked up stand ins, until we go to los angeles to get the real thing. we both scored very nice wedding attire, marcia got the most beautiful dress. very simple with mexican style embroidery. classic mexican, but also very modern at the same time. and i got traditional manta cotton pants and shirt with simple embroidery around the collar, breast-pocket and front over-lap. very nice and minimalist.
We got home, yesterday, to see our tickets had arrived by Fed Ex. it’s official, we’re going to South East Asia and India. Our flight itinerary is as follows:
December 3rd, fly to Los Angeles.
December 9th, fly to Denpasar, Bali.
December 23rd, fly to Bangkok, Thailand.
January 20th, fly to Dehli.
February 10th, fly to Los Angeles
February 13th, fly back to Puerto Vallarta.
I’ll be working out the details of everything in between these flights, but at least the backbone is in place, we have flights to start planning from.
It’s rough still but in Bali, we’re looking at staying in Ubud for most of the time, with a day or two trip to Lombok. and maybe a day jaunt to Kuta. i’ll be bringing a surfboard for this leg of the trip.
We have a month in the Thailand area, so we’ll most likely travel up to Chaing Mai for christmas and new years, hopefully doing some kind of trek into the golden triangle. and then back to Bankgok for a week or so and then split two weeks between cambodia and vietnam. Most of this part will probably be done spontaneously, but i’d like to get to Ankor Wat, Saigon, Hualong Bay, Hoi San and Hanoi.
Then on to India. whoa. this is the most elusive part of the trip. all the travel advice i read from the Lonely Planet forums, says that three weeks isn’t even slightly enough time. My list of places I’d like to check out are Agra, Varanasi, Benares, Rishikesh and then on to Katmandu. There are a million places I’ve been reading about and this leg is the least planned and researched, at this point. So far most of my research has been on the north, but i’m just starting to read about the south of India. Almost like another place.
Anyone have any advice, please feel free to comment.
