Zoom in long vacation and the mother of the sons of the eight countries
Mr Huang's mother, 60, the body is hale and hearty, previously and son also have been to Russia. Retirement at home, she also nothing important things to do at ordinary times, the southeast Asia, South Asia, eight countries wouldn't have missed.
Mr Huang spent more than a month with her mother, traveled to southeast Asia, South Asia, eight countries they via Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma, India, Pakistan and Nepal, and this trip costs $1000 per person.
After determined the travel time, Mr Huang's mother is very excited, early put tourism need clothes and bags are ready, and even take home electric kettle, thought if it doesn't seem to agree with eating local food also can do it yourself, also can save a cost.
Mother is busy do well back office, Mr Huang has started to develop a plan of travel here. First, he wanted to go to country and want to make sure that each country will go to the city, and these need to go to the scenic spots in the city. Secondly, we should calculate good time, how many days stay in each city, which near a route, how to go to the next destination.
Preparation is one of the most headache problem is visa, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma, India, Pakistan and Nepal, the eight countries only in Vietnam, and India is not be born sign, be born sign and Thailand only 14 days, Mr. Huang think play not ready, so he went to the chengdu consulate in advance to deal with the visa for two months. And chongqing did not Vietnam consulate, Mr. Huang was recently in nanning for Vietnam visa, India visa is dealt with in Bangkok.
Traveled eight countries, natural reckoning, Mr Huang thinks transportation accounts for the proportion of largest, save money, of course, to save from the transportation. Mr. Huang said, only from Bangkok in Thailand to Calcutta of India they ride in the plane, the rest are selected as the train and car transport.
Vietnam is the first station, Mr. Huang and his mother go to nanning by train from chongqing, then take the train from nanning to Hanoi. They also went to the hue in Vietnam and ho chi minh city, is a car. Then travel to Cambodia from Vietnam and visited phnom penh, siem reap, two cities, and came to Bangkok by bus. Mr Hwang came to the grand palace in Bangkok, happened to catch up with the Thai king's birthday, the grand palace fete all visiting tourists to eat lunch, staff distributed a bento to every visitor and soft drinks.
Since then, Mr Huang went to hua hin, away, and in Chiang rai, visited the golden triangle in the boat and passing through the two countries Laos and myanmar. Then they returned to Bangkok again, from Bangkok to India by air.
As for accommodation, Mr. Huang said a day accommodation costs about $6 to $10, after every time they are in a city to go looking for hotel now, because you can bargain face to face. Mr Huang has a trick, half is cut off on the boss's bid, almost every success.
In addition, they will buy bus or train ticket as far as possible in the evening, such already save the accommodation fees and don't delay to play during the day, is to save time and money.
Because the mother took the electric rice cooker, Mr. Huang are almost all foods such as pasta and cereals in the local supermarket own cooking to eat. In addition, some local specialties price is very cheap, they are in Nepal for a "new chongqing restaurant", the meal only RMB 13.
In addition to Angkor Wat and the taj mahal tickets for these two sites will charge, the rest of the sites are free.
During a visit to the taj mahal, st Paul's cathedral, gateway of India, and India and Pakistan line etc, after they came to Nepal, went to the Buddha had ShengYuan birthplace, the last bus to Lhasa from Nepal, ends 32 days of travel.