Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / December 2003

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Is it ok to travel with Euros in India?
Please I need information.
Many Thanks

For those interested, this link was posted in another NG and I feel it
might be enjoyed by some here:
http://ww4.tiki.ne.jp/~mmurakami/setoy/map.html
John W.

Hi, I want to go to Northeast India. I want to fly there from Bangkok.
I want to go to Varanasi, Bodh Gaya and Darjeeling. It would appear
that the easiest place to fly into, from Bangkok, would be Calcutta.
That's the closest, anyway. Then I would have to train to Varanasi.

Can anyone help with my itinerary for a 12 month RTW trip starting on the
1st May 2004, these are the countries which I want to visit, I've tried to
put them in an order to get the best weather in each country.  I will be
travelling on a Star Alliance ticket covering 39,000 miles ...

Rumour has it that individual travel is permitted in Tibet again. Can anyone
confirm or refute this? We are thinking of cycling from Yunnan to Lhasa and
wind up in Kathmandu if it is possible without hassles from the authorities.
Would be utterly grateful for any updates on the ...

I'm off to Thailand in January and want to know the cost of anti Malarial
drugs in Thailand, particularly Malarone. Anyone know prices??? All I know
is its bloody expensive in the UK :-(
Thanks

Does anybody know the current money exchange state in Myanmar ?
Do you have to change dollars into FCEs ?
Can you change traveller cheques and, if yes, where and with what effort ?
Is it better to have dollars or local money ?

Hi there - flying from Europe to Hong Kong via Moscow with Aeroflot.
3-hour stop-over in Moscow. What's the airport like, your regular
airport same as a thousand airports in the world???  
Never flown via that part of the world, guess it's the same as

After having travelled all over Asia from Holland from 1984 untill 1999 our
kids were born  in 2002 and 2002. This stopped our  backpacking, but now the
travelinfection is hitting us hard again. So we plan to go on the road again
and allthough sout-east asia is still calling because ...

Just got  Itinerary for my return flight from Bangkok to USA.        
    arrives NRT 715am ..Depart 525 pm..  Is there anything to do with
all that time at Narita Tokyo... Not enough time to go any place and
too long to just sit..

I am thinking of going to Capetown for a week in Feb.  Bed and
breakfast will be provided.
Has anyone any guide on prices in South Africa.  A meal for two for
example.

It appears that all of the seats in the first class section of Japan Air's
JFK-NRT flight are solo seats.  Are the seats close enough that I'll be able to
talk to my husband during the flight?

LOL... Can we replace KL as Bollywood's favorite Asian hangout? At
least we've got more hookers and the cops don't arrest clubbers.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=466386
Bollywood's hottest young director, Amit Saxena, is filming on

Is it worth the extra money to take this economy + class on long haul
flights ?
repa