Dancing around the world

 

Citylife

Our accomidations in Singapore, Koala Lumpur(Malaysia) and perhentian Island(Malaysia).

Perhentian islands are two small islands just outside the northeast coast of Malaysia. We lived on long beach on the smallest of the two islands: a true paradise. Crystal clear water, nice beaches, and the warmest of all the places we've visited. We stayed on the beach, went snorkeling with seaturtles and sharks and experienced a real tropical rainstorm, with big lightenings and thunders :)

The backpackers: Less is more..

Still dancing



In Holland we're finally dancing again. We've definetely lost some muscles on our way, and I'm afraid we'll be very very very sore tomorrow. But it's still a lot of fun!!!

See everyone in Norway very soon.

Linn, Lene and Jannicke

Here is Australia in pictures. We spent two weeks on the eastcoast of this huge country. The temperature stayed in between 20-25 degrees celcius midday, but dropped a lot during the night, brrr... After Costa Rica and Samoa it felt a little cold, but it was also good to be able to walk more than 100m without being soked in sweatt.. ugh! We wish we could have visited other parts of Australia, but the time was just too short. (Wich means we have to go back... maybe next time!!!)

First stop was Sydney, where we visited Stine and Asle (friends of Linn).  We had a very nice stay there, and we finally got to eat homecooked meals, watch tv, stay in a house, drive a car, do laundrey and sleep peacefully,..

 

We took the ferry into the city.



In Sydney we saw the main tourist atraction; Sydney opera house. It's really beautiful, maybe even more beautiful than the new opera house in Oslo. In the photoes under, you can see the opera house, harbour brige, and the city frontline seen from the opera house.






We visited the botanic gardens, before walking the streets of "the rocks", the older part of Sydney.




As so many other cities, also Sydney has a sky tower. And because we loooove good views, we went up again ;)




The picture says it all.



"Queen  victoria building" is a mall inside an old victorian building. We went there rather for the beautiful arcitecture, than the expencive shops.



We ate pancaces in darling harbour's pancacehouse. From the harbour you can see all the lights of Sydneys skyskrapers at night.



After a few relaxing days, we were ready for a new adventure. It was time to hit the road jack. We rented a car and drove up the east coast.(Linn and Lene being the drivers) And man did we have troubles driving on the left side of the road. Not only did we have to use an automatic stick (wich means we, at least Linn, stept on the break a couple times in an attempt to clutch.) It also looked like we tryed to wash the front window all the time (even though it was both dry and sunny), this time in an attempt to use the blinkers. As if that was'nt enough we also drove way to far left, making Jannicke a nerv-vrack in the back seat... Luckily it got better pretty soon. (at least Linn and Lene thought so, haha..) 



Due to the expenses of renting, we decided to save some money by camping in the car. And because of all the "no-parking-during-night-time"-signs in all the parking lots of Byron bay, (and when I say all, I mean ALL... we really tryed!!) and because it was very late and very dark, we ended up sleeping next to someones garden. At 6am we woke up by a knocking on the window. We looked up and into the face of a policeman, only inches away from the window. And there we were.. dead tired, clothes hanging all over the place and a voice asking "What do you think you are doing??". As the three confused and naive norwegian girls that we are, we got away with it, and learned that you are not allowed to sleep in a car in someones garden.



Byron bay is a very nice small town, with lots of hippies, surfers, partyes and beautiful beaches.




After newcastle, coffs harbour, byron bay, and gold coast, we reached our final destination: sunshine coast. The first day there we visited the Australian Zoo. 

Jannicke has found herself a new boyfriend, haha..


Beautiful creatures.


We even got to feed the kangaroos


Aaw.. They are so cute!! And they sleep 20 hours a day, what a life ;)


We went to a wild life show. And we won a pucture for being the best monkey imitators in the audience. HAHAHA!!! It was actually even shown on the big screen...


In sunshine coast we stayed at Synne and Stig's(friends of Jannicke's) place. A funny, happy couple, with hearts for tattoos and a LOOOOT of shoes.


We all went to Brisbane for a day. A city we found very likeable. It has good shopping, cozy cafes, a public beach, a big river, and lots of culture.


During the time we spendt in Sunshine coast, we went to the beach, had BBQ, watched movies, experienced the nightlife of Moloolaba and worked out (finally). 



AND jumped out of an airplane!!!!!!  14000 ft and 65 sec of freefall. it's an indescribable feeling of joy. We would do it again any time. (If we had the opportunity.) Unfortunately we don't have the pics on this computer, so we'll save them for later.


After two hot and sweaty, days in Singapore, we arrived Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia today. Yesterday was actually the Norwegian national day; 17th of may! We celebrated the day in singapore along with all the norwegian families who live there. We know we're too late, but anyway's; "Happy birthday Norway!!!" Hope you all had a good 17th of may.



BTW: When we told you about Samoa, we forgot one tiny, little detail. We were on the radio!! Live!! It was Mika who called in and wanted us to make some noice for the radioshow. We were on our way to town for pizza when he called, and the funny part was, he made it sound as if we were all from Norway. Haha.. Go Norwegians!!

BIG THANKS TO:
Stine&Asle and Synne&stig for making our Australian adventure unforgettable :)

Lene, Linn and Jannicke

Hey there. Internet is not always easy.. Finally we got to put together some pics from our two days in New Zealand. We stayed in Auckland at a backpackers hostell. That was interesting.. haha! The first night we arrived the hostell at about 4 AM. We went down to our dorm (dead tired), looking forward to a good nights sleep. We opened the door, and there were five boys and a girl, fast asleep in four bunkbeds .. nice! The next night we got a smaaler dorm ;)

The first day, we went for a walk in Auckland city as fulltime tourists. Sky tower, Sky jumping, starbucks coffee (mmmm...), bungy ride, Auckland harbour and a tiny little shopping for some of us. We also got a free pizza at the backpackers nightclub.


Beautiful view from the sky tower. In the last picture; the tower seen from the harbour at night.

Linn and Jannicke went for sky jumping out of the tower. It's a 192 meter fall. What a kick!



We all tried the bungy ride. wich was awesome. We were thrown into the air, and then kept bunging up and down, while the ball twirled around.

The second day we visited the very big Auckland museum.

Afterwards we walked all the way home, and had a dinner at the most cozy place.

We also finally got to do our long missed, very needed lawndry. And that's about it from NZ.

Our next stop was Sidney, Australia, where we were spoiled at Stine and Asle's place. Our own bedroom, new sheets, big bathroom, and our first homemade cooking since we left Norway ;) We will make another post soon, showing pictures from Sidney, our roadtrip up the east cost, and our stay here at sunshine coast.

At the moment we're really excited about thursday morning. It's gonna be Wohoooo!!!

- Jannicke, Linn og Lene

Hei pa dere der hjemme!! :):)

Haper alt staar bra til hjemme! Na er jeg i san Jose... :) Linn og Lene er i Quepos fortsatt... :) Jeg drar tilbeke i morgen.. Kan fortelle at de var og surfa i gaar.. kom hjem pittelitt solbrente og gnagsaar pa laara! Det hadde visst vert veldig bra! De syntes det var veldig goey! :) kan ikke vente til jeg skal snaart.. hehe... Jeg hadde en rolig dag heelt alene ved bassenget. Foelte meg ikke sa bra.. Det eneste jeg spiste var en banan og et epple.. men jeg kvikkna til utover kvelden og hadde en siste middag med GAP gruppa. Det var koselig!!

Fra na av ma vi greie oss uten GAP :) Det blir kanskje litt rart.. men Goey! Ma finne oss sted og sove og spise selv. Det greier vi nok! Planen er aa reise til San Theresa med noen stopp underveis.... :) Skal hilse fra Linn og Lene om at de har det bra!! :) Hehe.. blir ikke stort med tid til aa blogge her.. Men vi proever:p

Her kommer noen bilder som Linnesnupp har redigert ;) : Kos dere!









Vi faar virkelig oppleve nydelig natur!! :) Vi kooser oss !! :)

Stor klem fra Jannicke.

Her kommer en liten oppdatering fra Monteverde i Costa Rica :):)
Ikke noen bilder denne gang, da jeg sitter pa dataen som tilhoerer hotellet :)
Proever a bli troett... Vi skal reise tidlig i morgen tidlig til siste stoppested sammen med GAP adventures. Det er quepos! :) Strandliv og snorkling. Monteverde har vert kjempeherlig!! Vi har gatt tur i taake skogen og proevd zip lining og tarzan huske!! :) Kjempegoey.. Ma nesten fortelle dere om at jeg mista cameraet mitt under den nest lengste zip linja.. haha... den er sa 60 - 100 meter over bakken... Mye skog under, sa jeg var helt fra meg da jeg oppdaga at det ikke hang pa meg lenger.. Jeg fortalte det til den ene guiden som jobba der da jeg kom ombord pa neste plattform. Tror dere ikke at han gikk a leta etter cameraet mitt!! Svett og roed pa oerene kom han tilbake med det!! Som aa finne naala i hoeystakken!! :) Jeg var veldig heldig! jippii!! :):)

Ellers sa har dagen i dag vert den foerste dagen der vi kunne virkelig slappe av og ikke gjoere noen ting!! Sa spreke jenter som vi er ble vi ikke sittende pa rompa!! :) Lene og Linn trente styrke og gjorde Janas klasse pa hotellrommet! Mens jeg tok med meg GAP guiden vaar pa joggetur! Haha.. matte jo gi han en utfordring!! :) Turen gikk opp til Cloud forest.. (Taakeskogen) Kan fortelle dere at det var slitsomt! For her er landskapet virkelig ikke flatt!! Det er oppover og nedoverbakker heeele tiden!  Det var skikkelig kult a loepe fra landsbyen her hvor det var sol og varmt til a komme sa hoeyt at det regna!! :) Nar man tok bena fatt fikk man virkelig oppleve overgangen! :)

Ikke i gar, men dagen foer det var vi a ridde pa hest!! :) Det var kjempegoey! Jeg fikk den sprekeste av alle hestene og la i teten hele veien! :) Jeg ble rett a slett forelska i den lille hesten! Var kjempenydelig. Ogsa var det veldig fint a se landskapet fra hesteryggen.

Na skal jeg gaa a legge meg.. Tror de skal stenge av her... oioioi... ikke seint enda men..
Ma vel proeve a fa sove likevel! :)

Vi snakkes. Oensker dere ei goo helg!

nattinatt :) klem Jannicke

Da vil vi informere dere alle der hjemme i nor, sor, ost og vest, eller hvorhen dere befinner dere, at vi befinner oss pa Costa Rica. Vi ankom San Jose i gaar ettermiddag, og her er det vaaarmt! :) Triste var vi etter aa ha sagt godbye til vaare kjente i storbyen! Men smilene kom fort tilbake da vi gikk ut av flyplassen i Costa Rica! Varmen slo mot oss! :p Akkurat naa sitter vi paa bussen! Vi er paa tur ut fra hovedstaden og til puerto viejo :) I skrivende stund har jeg Jannicke ved min side og Linn har selskap av en ekte Costa Ricaner (nemlig turist guiden vaar fra GAP Adventures). Vi har en 16 dagers guidet tur frem for oss, her skal vi oppleve Costa Rica paa sitt aller beste, med tur i regnskogen, tur pa hesteryggen, rafting, snorkling, avslapping paa stranda, vulkaner, ziplining, og mer som vi vil fortelle dere om etterhvert. Tepmeraturen ute er for oieblikket ca.27 grader, men ettersom vi skal ned til havnivaa, kommer det til aa bli baade varmere og fuktigere seinere i dag. NICE :) Det er litt vanskelig aa skrive da bussen homper veldig akkurat naa! ;) Pa ipodn spilles : I love NYC ! Live like we're dying osv! Bare glamusikk! Landskapet vi kjoerer igjennom er groennt og frodig!! Det jeg gleder meg mest til akkurat naar vi kommer frem og paa hele turen er a baade! og Rafting! (Jannicke) Det jeg gleder meg mest til nar jeg kommer frem er : er snokling og baading! paa hele turen gleder jeg meg bla.til turen inn i regnskogen, se hva som moter oss der (Lene):) Det jeg gleder meg mest til nar jeg kiommer frem er: BAAADEEE!! og legge meg ned paa stranda. Jeg tror virkelig dette kommer til aa bli en veldig bra tur :)(Linn)

Naa slutter vi av for dene gang! Det er sa mye aa se der utenfoor bussvinduet :p Vi kommer tilbake med ny oppdatering saa fort som mulig.. aner ikke hvordan internettforb er fremover.

Whatever you do don't flush down the toiletpaper in Costa Rica...

Vi snakkes ;) Jannicke, Lene og Linn <3