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Assistant: Description: When I finished university I went travelling.
I went travelling with two friends for six months.
In this video, I am going&nbsp;
to share my trip with you,&nbsp;
and tell you some of the differences&nbsp;
between the different places I went to.
Hello. If you are new to my channel,
I'm Rachel and welcome to smile English stories,&nbsp;
where you can listen to English&nbsp;
in lots of different contexts.
If I speak too quickly, or too slowly,
you can change the speed in YouTube.
So when I finished university 30 years ago,
I went to London.
I got on a plane a big plane in Heathrow Airport
and I flew with my two friends to Hong Kong.
30 years ago, Hong Kong airport
was very different to today.
Hong Kong had a small airport in the city,
and you flew through the tall buildings
to get down into the city.
Today, Hong Kong has a big airport
on an island not in the city.
It was very hot in Hong Kong,
and we slept in a tiny little room
at the top of a tall building.
When you looked down, it was a little scary,
but you could look down on the lively city.
It was quite noisy because
there were a lot of cars on the roads.
But Hong Kong is not enormous,
so it's very easy to get around.
You are never bored... never!
There is a lot to see and a lot to do,
and lots of different things to eat.
From Hong Kong, we took a ferry boat to Macao
and then we went into China.
In China, the weather was not hotter,
it was cooler,&nbsp;&nbsp;
but it was warmer than back in England.
In China the weather was wetter than in England,
because it was the rainy season,
it wasn't the dry season.
In China we travelled a lot by train.
The journeys were much longer than in Hong Kong
where the journeys were a lot shorter,
and the train seats were much harder.
I remember travelling for 20 hours
on one hard seat overnight!
It was not possible to move!
We stopped in Xi'an to visit the Terracotta Army.
Look at the faces. They are all different.
But some faces are harder
(some faces are fiercer) than others,
and some are softer faces.
And then near Beijing
we visited the Great Wall of China.
Shh! We slept on the Great Wall of China
in our sleeping bags,
and when we looked up at night,
it was the night of shooting stars.
It was the night in the year...
...when there are more shooting stars
than any other night of the year.
The Great Wall of China is very long.
It's longer than the Berlin Wall was,
and it's longer than Hadrian's Wall,
which was a Roman wall between&nbsp;
Scotland and England a long time ago,
but it's not taller than&nbsp;
the Hoover Dam in America.
That's amazing too.
But of course the Great Wall of China
is much older than the Hoover Dam.
We finished our trip to China in Shanghai.
Shanghai was much smaller 30 years ago.
Now it has a lot bigger&nbsp;
taller buildings than before.
From Shanghai we took a big ferry&nbsp;
boat back down to Hong Kong,
and from Hong Kong, we took off again,
through all the tall buildings,
and we flew to the Philippines.
It was my friend's birthday
and he wanted to learn to dive under the water,
so we flew to an island called Boracay,
a little tropical island,
much prettier than Hong Kong
and not as busy.
Hong Kong was much busier than&nbsp;
the little tropical island,
But we had a problem.
It was raining, and it was windy,
so it was not possible to dive.
Diving is a lot riskier when it's windy,
so we decided to be lazier.
We had a much cozier little place to stay.
We stayed in a little traditional bungalow
and we read our books,
and we planned the next part of our trip.
From the Philippines we flew down to Indonesia.
We visited Bali and Java,
two of the Indonesian islands.
Bali was very pretty.
I think what we saw in Bali was prettier
than on the island of Java.
In Bali we got up early one morning
and we climbed Mount Batur.
Mount Batur is a volcano
and it's still active.
It was difficult to climb&nbsp;
in the ashes of the volcano.
It was easier to stay on the island
and read our books in our hammocks,
but the view from the top of the volcano...
...was so much prettier than
the view of the rain from the bungalow.
From Indonesia we flew to Singapore
and then we took a bus to Malaysia.
From Indonesia we flew to Singapore
and then we took a bus to Malaysia.
The buses or the coaches in Malaysia
were much more comfortable
than the trains in China.
Malaysia was as interesting as Bali and Java.
It was as interesting for me
because I like creative activities,
and when I was at school
I learnt to do batik.
For batik you use wax to make designs on material,
and in Indonesia and in Malaysia
they do a lot of batik.
So in my big rucksack I collected a lot of batiks!
From Malaysia we went to Thailand.
For me Thailand was more interesting
and the temples were so much more beautiful.
They always have more colorful roofs
with special shapes on the end of the roofs,
and they were usually in better condition
than in Indonesia and Malaysia,
but the food was so spicy,
and it was more difficult to eat sometimes,
than in the other countries.
Thailand was the only country
I&nbsp;cried because the food was so spicy!
You can just eat rice and vegetables,
but it's perhaps less traditional&nbsp;
than eating spicy food.
The South of Thailand is beautiful because&nbsp;
of the sea and all the different islands,
but the north of Thailand is not less beautiful.
It's more a mountainous and you can go trekking
and visit the more traditional villages.
And then of course in Bangkok there are a&nbsp;
lot of even more impressive things to see.
But I was getting more excited
because after Thailand we flew to India.
India had been my dream for a long time.
I had wanted to go to India&nbsp;
since I was a little girl.
So when we landed in Calcutta,&nbsp;
we had a little shock!
We got on a tuk-tuk, which&nbsp;
is a little motorbike taxI,
but we couldn't go forward because there&nbsp;
was a cow in the middle of the road!
And cows can be more important&nbsp;
than humans in India.
They are an important symbol&nbsp;
in the Hindu religion.
India was not less fascinating than Thailand.
The food was spicy, but not&nbsp;
spicier than in Thailand,
and we were more adventurous, because&nbsp;
we decided to go on a camel trek!
We went on the camels into the desert.
We took a lot of water
because the weather was&nbsp;&nbsp;
much hotter than in Thailand,
but the camels didn't have a problem.
They can walk for much longer
than we can... with no water!
The North of Thailand was much greener
than the Indian desert,
and the Indian desert was a lot drier.
It was October, and the nights in Thailand
were getting cooler,
but the nights in the desert were much colder than
the nights in the mountains in Thailand.
The temples in India for me are
as beautiful as the temples in Thailand.
They are different, but they are as beautiful.
The palaces in the north&nbsp;
of India are so beautiful.
I'm not sure which is more beautiful,&nbsp;
the Taj Mahal, or the Palace&nbsp;
of the Winds in Jaipur.
They are both as beautiful as each other.
But it was almost Christmas,
and it was time for us to fly home to England.
But the flight home was so bumpy!
It was bumpier than all the other flights
around South East Asia.
I was so lucky to have my six months
travelling after my studies.
I have more videos you can watch on travelling,
or you could try one of my Grammar Stories.
If you liked the video, give me a thumbs up,
and I'll see you very soon!
Title: My Trip to ASIA… 30 years ago!
Caption: When I finished University when I was just a little younger, I went backpacking round Asia for 6 months.  I went with two University friends. In this video I share my trip with you, comparing the different places I visited.  Enjoy the ride ! 

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