RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

Round the World Trip

I know when you see the pictures of what we are wearing you will think to yourselves where can I get these outfits from? Well, I hate to dissapoint you it is not easy looking this good - Tights and shorts - gifts. boots and coats $90. Looking like comp...

 

Europe and Asia Extravaganza 2006

Hi! I have skipped over this entry temporarily. I have someone anxiously waiting on news about Ireland. I will come back to it as soon as I can. Best wishes from Yangshuo, China, Tiff...

 

South East Asia 2006

Okay, Well we made it. After all the fuss the bus wasnt too bad. We arrived at the Vietnam-Laos border around 5am and had to wait for teh border guards to open it up at 7am. However that gave us a chance to watch teh sunrise in the mountains which w...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

 

Australia - SouthEast Asia 2006

La capital Vietnamita nos recibio con los primeros 26 del viaje, casi senti que tenia frio. Nuevamente, taxi, 100cc, 2 ruedas, 2 personas y mi gran mochila. Recorrimos, diferentes hoteles, nada que valiera los 10 dolares por 2 personas que suelen c...

 

The Wild East

Early in the morning on the 4th of March, I woke up to meet Nann so he could take me to the hill tribes' villages. Ratanakiri is home to twelve highland tribes, known collectively as the Khmer Loeu, that make up the majority of the population in Ratan...

 

Southeast Asia 2006/07

Well after arriving from the so clean city of Singapore, I quickly made my way to the southern bus station direct from the airport. I caught a bus to Damnoen Saduak and the following morning booked out a boat from a nice man Aree (081 9415952). That...

 

South-East Asia 2006

around town did lonley planet walk up to no 10...

 

ROUND THE WORLD

Spent only 2 days in Arequipa, leaving us too little time to visit the nearby Colca canyon. Instead we rested and visited the charming Santa Catalina monastery....

 

CAMBODIA

We arrived in Cambodia by boat from Thailand, and discovered very quickly that the Cambodians aren't the world's greatest sea farers, even in the calmest of waters! We also had our first encounter with the joy that is Cambodian Karaoke - a recent devic...

 

Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

 

my life...on the road

start my journey at the age of 17, walking on the street alone with all guys speak different language from which i do. NObody understand me ,and i understand nobody neither... good. give it up or life goes on. did not think too much and 7 years already...

 

Vietnam

on tuesday we headed out on our 2 day tour that would bring us to Cambodia. Although, the 2 day tour did only take us 2 days it seemed like the epic journey of a month or more. we - including 15 other travellers spent the first of many 2 hours stints c...

 

Southeast Asia

Phnom Penh Revisited We had a conversation with a very well traveled gentlemen who disagreed with my less than favorable opinions of Phnom Penh. He told me that he found the city to be developing nicely. He commented that what ever city you visit fi...

 

flying north for summer

We've been reading more about the history of this place, and yesteray went to a film about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, so we're slowly managing to understand a bit more of the dismal past of Cambodia - although the more you learn about it the less it ...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 2) - New Zealand, Australia, Asia & Europe 2006 / 2007

Wednesday 11th April I Woke at 5am as train rattled into Hanoi. I met Aaron and Natalie at the front of the station and we took a taxi back to the same hotel, where we had breakfast because nowhere else was open before 8am. Then I took a ta...

 

Chasing Winters aka A Blind Man's Guide To S.E.Asia

So now it’s finally onto Cambodia. A Dutch couple travelling the opposite direction told us to expect a two and a half hour bus trip from where the boat berths. Jason came to the conclusion that we should expect the worst. The worst I’d heard was that ...

 

SE Asia 2006/07

After catching the "Scam Bus" from Koh Chang (yes they do exist outide of the Kao San Road) we eventually arrived in Siem Reap having got the bus company to pay for a Taxi from the border at Poipet!!!!. We travelled all the way from Koh Ch...

 

South East Asia 2007...

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Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

 

Cambodia 2006

After 2 days on the Mekong Delta we finally made it to Cambodia and Phnom Penh. We checked into the Grand View Guest house for the night, it is really cheap but the rooms are what you pay for, so extremely small and only fans, but then again we are ...

 

Asia 2006

I originally hoped Patty would join me in Bali for my final eight days. She was busy, however. Jim joined me for the eight days. I got my scuba certificate while in Bali....

 

Chris and Lisa World Tour

Follow our travels round the world...

 

S.E ASIA 2006

We had a little less than a week to fill in before meeting Chris (Andrews older brother)in Laos so decided to spend it on yet another tropical island! We didn't have enough time or funds to get down to the desired southern Thailand islands so we settle...

 

Sarah's big adventure

Having finished with Ayutthaya, we arrived in Chiang Mai last week, and have been staying in an amazingly clean guesthouse that's only 190 Baht per night (about 3 pounds) so we're rather pleased with that. It's a fair bit cooler up here as well, so we...

 

South East Asia 2007

Dalat is a flourishing market town up in the Central Highland hills halfway down Vietnam. We were only here a short time but went on a city tour day trip to see some of the local sights. This involved places such as waterfalls, a buddhist temple an...

 

Two months in Southeast Asia

Today was one of the toughest days on my journey thus far. I was dragged forcibly to float down the river on an inner tube, stopping at rope swings and watering holes along the way. It was just horrendous. When we wanted to pause at a pit stop, we had ...

 

South East Asia, New Zealand & Japan 2004-5

Check out the blog and archives December 2004 and January 2005 ;o) http://lunamodule.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_lunamodule_archive.html...