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SIM Card Quiz: And the winner is...
Here are the results and the winners of my quiz "Guess the countries of my SIM cards". Obviously, the questions were quite hard and a good portion of luck was necessary to know some of the correct answers, according to the list below:
| SIM Card | Country | Correct Answer |
 | Argentina | Claro |
 | Australia | Telstra |
 | Bolivia | entel movíl |
| No SIM | Brazil | no SIM |
 | Cambodia | mfone |
 | Chile | ENTEL (PCS) |
 | China | China Mobile |
| no SIM | Kazakhstan | no SIM |
 | Laos | tigo |
| no SIM | Mongolia | no SIM |
 | New Zealand | Vodafone |
| no SIM | Paraguay | no SIM |
 | Peru | movistar Telefonica |
 | Russian Federation | MTC |
 | Thailand | happy |
 | Uruguay | Ancel |
 | Uzbekistan | u cell |
| no SIM | Vietnam | no SIM |
And the winner is:
1. Rolf Jeger (14 correct answers out of 18 questions)
runners up:
2. René Markl (8 / 18)
3. Susanne Arvidsson (7 / 18)
Congratulations to all of the winners and thanks to all participants of this quiz.
Definitely, this was a tough one, since most of the entries had only less than 4 correct answers. The next competition will be easier - stay tuned!
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09:52
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07 April 2009
High Definition and Panoramic Pictures from the trip
One of my picture sorting tasks consists in assembling - using software - various "special scenes", which I've been shooting during my round-the-world trip. Fiddling with "High Definition Range" (HDR) photographs and panorama shots is a good past time while waiting for the necessary visas required for my next trip to Ethiopia.
Here are some of my random HDR and panoramic pictures. I hope you like them.
Sunset at Phnom Bakheng temple in Cambodia:
Anakena Beach at Rapa Nui (Easter Island):
Cave at the Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia:
Panoramic view over Queenstown (New Zealand) from Ben Lomond:
(click on picture to zoom)
posted by Reto at
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01 April 2009
ИUMB3ЯS
Ten days ago, I arrived back in my home country from an exciting round-the-world trip. Partying with friends and family here seems to be like an extension of this trip and this is why I'm a bit lagging in updating this blog.
Moreover, aside of celebrating, there's not much going on worth mentioning here - unless you are interested in random numbers I deem important...
- 101'706 kilometers (63'197 miles) is the total distance I covered - in detail:
- Leg 1 (Europe to China): 25'877 kilometers (16'079 miles)
- Uzbekistan Loop: 10'622 kilometers (6'600 miles)
- Leg 2 (Southeast Asia to New Zealand): 24'346 kilometers (15'128 miles)
- Leg 3 (South America to Europe): 40'861 kilometers (25'390 miles) - 27'528,14 US dollars was the total cost of my round-the-world trip.
- 9'765 travel pictures currently wait for me to be sorted into albums.
- 1'000 Sum (Uzbek currency, amount worth about 0,70 US cents) is the biggest bank note in Uzbekistan. Stashing such bills after exchanging money was a pain in the neck.
- 357 days was the duration of my trip.
- 300 Pesos (about 90 US dollars) is the ridiculously low withdrawal limit at ATM's in Argentina.
- 81 US dollars was my average daily spending in Australia.
- 28 Russian swear words, which I have learned throughout the journey.
- 16 countries have been visited by me (plus six, which I transited through) - in detail:
Visited: Russian Federation > Kazakhstan > Uzbekistan > Mongolia > China > Thailand > Cambodia > Laos > Australia > New Zealand > Chile > Argentina > Uruguay > Paraguay > Peru > Bolivia.
Transited: Germany > Poland > Belarus > Singapore > French Polynesia > Brazil - 13,84 US dollars on average was my daily cost of living in Laos.
- 1,45 US dollars per night was the price for the cheapest accommodation during my trip (for a bamboo hut with a terrace and two hammocks at the shores of the Mekong river in Don Det - 4'000 Islands, Laos).
- 0 items stolen...
posted by Reto at
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