Since we started to travel around, people told us Cambodia would be the most beautiful country on South East Asia. We're curious to see it! We entered in different dates, since Claudio and Lili were driving Tzarina (the motorbike) slowly and Fernando, Malin and Flavia were taking "fast" buses. After the the adventure of the transport over the border, Fernando's team took buses after buses all the way to Phnom Penh. Flavia had only a few days remaining before having to return home. They arrived quite late in Phnom Penh (01:00am) and together with the other travellers in the bus, they [View Full Entry]

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Lets tell about our times in the most bombed country in the world!(Thanks again for the kindness of USA) We left Thailand expecting a bit more adventure, since there is no challenge in traveling Thailand. (Thai is not bad, just not challenging!) Laos started a bit different. We decided to do everything on our own, we would save some money and have more exiting stories to tell. Stories about getting lost, ordering food using hand signs, avoiding scams and so on. (This is what we like on traveling!) To begin with we didn't buy the joint ticket Bus+ferry+taxi+boat+hotel to L [View Full Entry]

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The first thing we noticed when we crossed the border was the difficulty of the Thai people to speak English. We didn't have any language trouble in Singapore or Malaysia. Communication outside the touristic places was bad. Just after the crossing we spend a few hours walking around the border city trying to find the bus station. If wasn't for an English speaking guy that took us on the back of his pickup truck to the correct place we would still be there asking around and receiving the most weird directions someone can imagine. But the difficulties stop there. After we [View Full Entry]

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There is a question that non-travelers always ask to the backpackers: The famous Q? "What do you do the whole day?" I used to answer "Nothing!" But it is not quite truth. We have at every single minute something to do. And if we don't, we find something to do. One of this occasions we had to find something to do, we started some researches. Actually we have many of them! After staying in so many hostels, we realize that some of them are just a place to spend the night and others a place to spend a week having so [View Full Entry]

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Walk from Singapore to Malaysia wasn't near as hard as we imagined. The subway takes you almost all the way to the border and the remaining part is like walking in a nice park. The immigration was also easy, stamp out, cross the causeway and stamp in. No surprises and no visas! Ahhh... South East Asia "I'm Loving it!". We new that South East Asia was a backpacker paradise. But now we are finally understood why. It's so easy to travel here. You don't have to think about anything, there is a travel agency every corner ready to deal with backpackers. [View Full Entry]

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It's amazing how you can get used to situations that you thought impossible to handle before. Was like this with the dirt in India, after our third month we couldn't almost even see it anymore, becomes part of you. This is broken only when you change situation. And what a change!! From a country with piles of garbage and sewage everywhere to a country that bubble gum is forbidden because the street cleaners had a hard time to clean it. Even the visa regulations state that individuals "hippie looking" are not allowed into Singapore. (The airline didn't want us to board [View Full Entry]

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Reading the book "11 minutes" from Paulo Coelho, there is a passage where the protagonist and her husband-to-be (shit, I shouldn't tell the end) come up with a discussion about sacred sex. They mention about times, in ancient Greece or Rome, where sex was treated as sacred. Religious rituals included sex, even girls, to be able to get married, had to make sex with a stranger before the marriage (I would like to be the stranger, not the husband... hehehe). Paulo Coelho stimulated our imagination. How would be to be in a country were this was still reality? India was high [View Full Entry]

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After recovering from the altitude sickness from the Tibetan plateau, we arrived in Kathmandu. Nepal offers you many outdoor activities. From 10 seconds bungee jumping, 9 days rafting to 30 day hiking and so on. Is as the Lonely Planet says, backpackers Disneyland. Many of the activities can be done by yourself, without any guide or tour. For the famous Annapurna circuit just take your bag and start walking! Although we could have done all this fantastic activities, we were to lazy to leave the hotel except for a few visits to the supermarket or to the internet, and this way [View Full Entry]

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A bit sooner in China than planned (yes, our first early arrival!!!). The reason was to escape the cold winter in Nepal and Tibet. If we went for two months in India before Nepal and Tibet, it would be winter time by then. So India was postponed to December. It is a big loop but for sure it is worth. The Khunjerab pass mark the border between Pakistan and China. With an altitude of 4733 meters is the highest border crossing on the planet. It’s full of ice and freezing cold, and of course, our bus had to break right on [View Full Entry]

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During our trip we meet many great people. Sometimes we not just meet but also manage to travel together. Rick and Forrest are great example of this. These Alaskan are father and son. We met them in Pakistan and ended up traveling Tibet together. Here is a text Forrest wrote us after we split in Nepal. Forrest, thanks for the text! Safe trips! Claudio and Fernando "We met Fernando, Claudio, and Lily, in Karimabad, Pakistan. My father, Rick, and I had spent a couple of nights in the Old Hunza Inn already, and were accustomed to "communal dinners" which were, at [View Full Entry]

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