Sunday 22nd June 14 We woke up again at stupid o'clock. We really got to see the view from our room when we woke up. It looked straight across the harbour to the skyline of Doha. We only had a full day in Qatar so decided to head out on the Doha sightseeing bus to get to see most of the famous sites. Qatar is a relatively new city which hosts some of the worlds most beautiful buildings. Half the tour was looking at hotels lol, we stopped at the Marriot, Sherato...

Saturday 21st June Today is our last day in Hong Kong but our flight isn't until after 6 tonight so we have some time to fit in some last minute sightseeing. We grab our free breakfast and check out of the Ark....everyone was leaving two by two! We head back to the train station and go a few stops to Tung Chung this is where we will catch the 360 cable car to the Big Buddha...or not...it is bucketing it down again and the cable car people are unsure if they will...

°o° ..."It's a small World after all" °o° Today is the day I've been waiting for...Disneyland!!!! We wake up early again and I hear the clap of thunder and the rain hammering down...sad face. Hoping the rain will not put Mark off Disney we catch another 40 winks and then shower and pack....leaving a few bits behind as our bags seem to have shrunk in the last two days! As we pay up with the Hotel we realise the rain has stopped...yippee and we make our ...

Like all our big days out, we started off early, partly because of time and partly because our sleeping pattern still has not altered from New Zealand time. We headed to the city habour to make our way to Macau. Where Hong Kong had been under British influence, Macau which recently changed in 1999 was under Portuguese influence beforhand. Alot of its architecture and history can be seen there today. As Macau like Hong Kong is an SAR of China we had to do all th...

Tuesday 17th June 14 It was an early start, the airport shuttle picked us up around 6.20am. Arriving at Christchurch airport, we quickly weighed our bags as they were bursting at the seems, luckily our bags were on the money, just reaching the maximum checkin and carry on allowance. After a 2 hour stop over in Auckland we started our longest flight home, across the ocean we cut ourself loose, back on the road, looking for something more beautiful, something mor...