My Trip Around the World

I am just another guy who is curious about the world and planning to take time off a few months to travel the world from Aug 2nd 2009 till don’t know when yet..

I figure that by writing a blog, I can share some of my experiences with families and friends as well as keeping a journal so I won’t forget about the things I see and do. Some friends say that hate me when they heard that I am making this trip so I just want to share some of my experiences in the blog. The other reason is to prevent me from being lazy while traveling.

Some Things About Me

I am 26, lived a quarter of my life in US and 3/4 in Malaysia. Have been to 20 countries before this trip and been to 47 states in the US except Hawaii, Alaska and North Dakota.

“You only live once”, a guy just told me few days ago when he bought my car. Even though I heard that a lot but it really sinks into my head this time. This is a good time to travel since I have some time on my side, have some savings, my youth and not missing out a lot from the current economy situation.

I guess for budget travel, the main goal is to maximize his or her utility with a number of contraints such as time, money and energy. It’s similar to an optimization problem and everyone’s utility function and objective is different.

For me, my objective is to look at how people live, get a first hand view of society’s way of live, learn about a city’s urban planning, understanding more about the background/history/economic/politics of the country and more importantly to learn how the local people view issues in their own perspective by talking and meeting with the locals.

I am not so into inanimate object because I think one can learn more by just watching some documentaries or read some good books about the topics. Thanks for reading.

New York City, where I lived and worked before my travels

My home town Penang

Some promotions for Malaysian tourism, my home country

This is the route that I am planning to travel through…North America, South America, Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, China, South East Asia.

I am planning to spend one month in South America, my first stop will be Bogota, Colombia on Aug2nd.  Since Santiago, Chile is quite far away I will then fly to Santiago, Chile then travel across Argentine, Uruguay and Brazil by bus or ferry.

My next flight will be from Sao Paulo to London. I am planning to stay there for 2 days then fly to Cairo, Egypt. Everything is open from Cairo. From Cairo, I will try to get back to Malaysia overland by bus or train passing through middle east, the balkans, eastern europe, middle east again, central asia, china and south east asia.

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Cities I plan to visit are Bogota,Santiago, Valparaiso, Mendoza, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Foz Do Iguzcu, Rio, Sao Paulo, Cairo, Luxor, Dahab, Aqaba, Petra, Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, Beirut, Athens, Tirana, Kosovo, Skopje, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Krakow,Warsaw, Cluj Napoca, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Istanbul, Ankara, Goreme (Capadoccia), Diyarbakir, Dohuk, Erbil, Sulamaniyah, Tehran, Esfahan, Yazd, Mashhad, Ashgabat, Mary/Merv, Turkmenabat, Buhkara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Osh, Bishkek, Karakol, Almaty, Kashgar, Urumqi, ShiHeZi, Dunhuang, Turpan, Lanzhou, Xining, YinChuan, HohHot, Erlian, Ulan Bator, Beijing, Harbin, ChangChun, ShenYang, Dalian, YanTai, QingDao, Jinan, KaiFeng, ZhengZhou, DengFeng, LuoYang, Xian, WuHan, ChangSha, ShenZhen, GuangZhou, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, Batam, Jakarta, Padang, Bukit Tinggi, Lake Toba, Bangkok, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Vientienne, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoi An, Hue, Luang Prabang, Ponsavon, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Sapa, Kunming, Dali, LiJiang, Shangri La, ChengDu, ChongQing, NanChang, FuZhou, Xiamen, Taipei, ShangHai, NingBo, HangZhou, ShenZhen, Hong Kong, Seoul, NYC.

My contact: lw_jen@yahoo.com. Feel free to send me an email.

9 Responses to “The Journey”

1. Ma rong says:

   January 2, 2010 at 1:59 pm

   My English is so poor – -

   I hope you remenber with me

   ??????? ^?^
2. Ma rong says:

   January 2, 2010 at 2:00 pm

   - –

   ^ ^
3. journey26 says:

   January 4, 2010 at 12:42 pm

   Yes, we met on the urumqi-beijing train. Thanks for stopping by.
4. Farizat says:

   January 15, 2010 at 2:28 am

   Good luck in your Journey!!!;)
5. Yung Ching says:

   January 20, 2010 at 9:28 pm

   you’re awesome, my friend, hope to meet u this coming CNY in penang!!!
6. Kitty says:

   February 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm

   Are you spend all your time travelling? How about work?
7. journey26 says:

   February 22, 2010 at 2:48 pm

   I am taking a break from work currently, but the break is longer than what I originally planned.
8. kitty2 says:

   March 5, 2010 at 9:57 pm

   great for you!!! Enjoy the travelling while you are young- you can expereince everything!
9. Daisy says:

   March 22, 2010 at 12:47 pm

   Hi traveler, nice blog! nice to meet u too!