Itinerary of trip to South Africa - December 2013 / January 2014

Itinerary - South Africa December 2013 – January 2014 (click on a date or a daily itinerary to link to related post)
Day	Dec.	Daily itinerary	Night	Km
1	7	Arrival in South Africa and tour of Port Elizabeth	P.E.	25
2	8	Port Elizabeth to Lalibela and first game drive	Lalibela	90
3	9	Lalibela game drives and walks	Lalibela	50
4	10	Game drives and night safari	Lalibela	50
5	11	Lalibela Lodge to Schotia Safari Game Reserve	Schotia	60
6	12	Game drives and walks at Schotia Game Reserve	Schotia	40
7	13	Schotia to Knysna, via Elephant Back Ride Safari	Knysna	275
8	14	Knysna golf and tour	Knysna	10
9	15	Knysna golf and spa	Knysna	10
10	16	Knysna golf and dining	Knysna	10
11	17	Knysna properties and drive through the mountains to Swellendam	Swellendam	200
12	18	Swellendam kayak and sherry	Swellendam	50
13	19	Swellendam to Cape Town, through Stellenbosch	Cape Town	160
14	20	Cape Town tour and music	Cape Town	60
15	21	Cape Town to Franschhoek	Franschhoek	75
16	22	Franschhoek	Franschhoek	0
17	23	Wine tasting in Stellenbosch and Paarl	Franschhoek	50
18	24	Paarl wine tasting for Christmas eve	Franschhoek	60
19	25	From wineland to Johannesburg	Johannesburg	75
20	26	City tour of Johannesburg	Johannesburg	80
21	27	Soweto and drive to Mabhoko Ndebele village	Mabhoko	280
22	28	Models and billiard at Mabhoko Ndebele village	Mabhoko	0
23	29	Mbahoko Ndebele village to Kruger National Park	Kruger	450
24	30	Alarms and mating lions at the Kruger National Park	Kruger	60
25	31	Kruger through Swaziland to S. Lucia	S. Lucia	650
	Jan.
26	1	New Year's day at Saint Lucia	S. Lucia	0
27	2	Drive to Durban and flight to Port Elizabeth	P.E.	250
28	3	Port Elizabeth - Seaview - Jeffrey bay	Jeffrey Bay	80
29	4	Knysna township	Mossel Bay	325
30	5	Bartolomeu Dias, Indian food and vintage music at Mossel Bay	Mossel Bay	40
31	6	Mossel Bay to Hermanus	Hermanus	320
32	7	Hermanus to Cape Town via Boulders Park and Good Hope	Cape Town	175
33	8	Cape Town wine tasting and Langa, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu townships	Cape Town	150
34	9	Cape Town slaves, cannons and jazz	Cape Town	40
35	10	Ending with a big bang, see you soon again South Africa	airplane	25
		TOTAL	KM	4275

Map Review: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Freytag & Berndt, ****

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Explore Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with this Freytag&Berndt road map. The best way to plan your trip, prepare your itinerary, and to travel independently in this part of Southeast Asia.

Itinerary of North Sulawesi cruise on Dewi Nusantara

Itinerary of my diving trip in Indonesia, June 2011

You can see some pictures I took during this cruise here on Flickr.

My boat was the Dewi Nusantara.

Map Review: Singapore Popout Map, ****

This is a great little map to carry around as you explore Singapore. It is several maps in one in fact, as you get a larger scale "Central" map and two smaller scale maps for City Centre and Orchard Road. It is sturdy enough that it will take some abuse and weighs next to nothing. A map of the metro system is in the back cover, very useful to find your way in the superefficient MRT. And finally one small map of all of Singapore and one of Sentosa island complete the picture.

I did not give it five stars because the index in the back of the two main maps is difficult to read/access.

Itinerary of a trip to South West China, 24 April - 7 May 2011

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Trip to South West China, Yunnan, Sichuan and Yangtse 24 April – 7 May 2011 click on an itinerary to go to its post
	Date	Itinerary	Night	Km	Hours
1	24/4	Depart Italy via Amsterdam to Chengdu, Sichuan	in flight
2	25/4	Chengdu	Chengdu	0	0
3	26/4	Fly from Chengdu to Lijiang, Yunnan. Naxi concert	Lijiang	0	0
4	27/4	Lijiang, Yunshanping, Baisha, Black Dragon	Lijiang	90	3
5	28/4	Drive to Shangri-la, via Tiger Leaping Gorge, tibetan villages	Shangri-la	190	4
6	29/4	Shangri-la, lakes Bitahai and Shudu and visit of town, shopping	Shangri-la	160	3
7	30/4	Flight to Kunming, Shilin stone forest	Kunming	220	4
8	1/5	Kunming Western mountains, flight to Chongqing	Chongqing	50	2
9	2/5	Dazu, board ship for Yangtse cruise	aboard	0	0
10	3/5	Cruise on the Yangtse: Shibaozai	aboard	0	0
11	4/5	Cruise on the Yangtse: Shennong, clearing of dam at night	aboard	0	0
12	5/5	Three Gorges Dam, disembark, Yichang	Yichang	50	1
13	6/5	Drive to Wuhan, Yellow Crane	Wuhan
14	7/5	Fly back to Italy via Chengdu and Amsterdam
				1.110	22

Map Review: Indian Himalaya Maps, sheet 6, by Leomann maps, *****

Review
This is probably the best set available for this part of the Himalaya. Not so much for trekking but good for trip planning. Sturdy paper and all the names of towns, gonpas, topography.

Would have been useful to have driving distances in km, but in this area kilometers don't mean much: mudslides and floods slow you down so much that time and distance don't always relate to each other! 1:200.000 scale should satisfy most travelers.

Maps of Kinnaur, Spiti and Lahaul - Himachal Pradesh, India

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HImachal Pradesh: Kinnaur and Spiti valleys

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Kinnaur

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Lahaul and Spiti

Map of Himachal Pradesh

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Map of India, physical and political

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Physical map of India. From mapsofindia.com

Political map of India. From welt.atlas.de

In Europe, you can buy a National Geographic map of India here



In the US and worldwide buy here

Itinerary of trip to Ethiopia, 29 Dec 2009 - 11 January 2010

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Trip to Ethiopia, 2009-2010 click on an itinerary or a date to go to the related post
Day	Date	Itinerary	Night	Km	hrs
1	29 Dec	Departure from Rome via San’a	Airplane	0	0
2	30 Dec	Addis Ababa	Addis	25	2
3	31 Dec	Addis to Dessiè	Dessiè	390	8
4	1 Jan	Dessiè to Lalibela	Lalibela	300	5
5	2 Jan	Lalibela	Lalibela	0	0
6	3 Jan	Lalibela to Mek’ele	Mek’ele	335	7
7	4 Jan	Mek’ele to Adigrat	Adigrat	120	2
8	5 Jan	Adigrat to Axum	Axum	130	3
9	6 Jan	Axum	Axum	15	1
10	7 Jan	Axum to Gondar	Gondar	355	6
11	8 Jan	Gondar to Bahir Dar	Bahir Dar	180	3
12	9 Jan	Bahir Dar, Lake Tana	Bahir Dar	40	2
13	10 Jan	Bahir Dar to Addis Ababa	Addis Ababa	550	7
14	11 Jan	Addis Ababa and evening transfer to airport	Airplane	20	2
15	12 Jan	Arrival in Europe	Home!	0	0
		total		2,460	48

Itinerario di un viaggio in Siria, 28 DIC 2005 / 5 GEN 2006

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VIAGGIO IN SIRIA, 28 DIC 2005 / 5 GEN 2006 clicca su un itinerario o una data per andare al relativo post
	Data	ITINERARIO	ARRIVO	KM	ore
1	28/12	Milano/Roma – Istanbul – Damasco	DAMASCO	0	0
2	29/12	visita città	DAMASCO	0	0
3	30/12	Damasco – Palmyra	PALMYRA	240	4
4	31/12	Palmyra – Rasafa – Aleppo	ALEPPO	420	7
5	1/1/06	escursione Basilica di S. Simeone	ALEPPO	120	2
6	2/1	Aleppo –– Maarat an-Nu’man – Serjilla – Hama	HAMA	190	5
7	3/1	Hama – Apamea – Krak de Chevalier – Ma’lula – Damasco	DAMASCO	220	4
8	4/1	Damasco – Bosra – Shahba – Damasco	DAMASCO	280	4
9	5/1	partenza mattina presto	Italia	0	0
	Totale			1.470	26