Where r u Matty D

After our cooking class we went across the boarder and into cambodia. I won't lie to you I was starting to get a bit overwhelmed by the Thailand travelling experience and was dying for a change of pace....I certainly got it. 5 hours from bangkok to the poi pet boarder, you see the black and white photos in my blog i thought i would be artistic. So we waited for people to get there visas done the walked across to the bus on the other side which drove us to our taxi and a 3 hour journey across dirt roads. I personally loved the experience, but i can see why people don't love the road. I won't rattle on too much as we stayed in siem reap and saw the temples everyone sees. but i ... read more

Over night in Ayutthaya COnocida antiguamente como la capital del reino de Siam es un lugar lindo para pasar 1 o 2 noches contemplando los templos y las construcciones antiguas, aunque se puede hacer por elefante o tuctuc la manera mas divertida definitivamente por bicicleta que fue lo que nosotros hicimos.. es interesante tratar de ocnocer la ciudad y al mismo tiempo cuidarse de no tropeza con un elefante en las aceras :) . despues dimos un paseo en bote par acompletar el recorrido de templos y por ultimo para descansar fuimos a un restaruante flotante otra de las atracciones de ayuttaya .. la comida es excelente y tras 2 tragos decidimos irnos en nuestra bicicleta aun sobrios para evitar cualquier accidente.. ma;ana es el cumplea;os de matthew y nos vamos para el pueblod e los ... read more

We left ko phi phi in a hurry we had all our clothes in the laundry so when we asked if the clothes were ready 30 minutes before our boat left it caused a bit of a panic behind the counter they had to raido back to the house and informed me that the clothes were still wet... no problems i said just bring the clothes so we can leave but this was not going to do they insisted on drying the clothes even if it ment we were going to miss our boat or not.... Luckly with around 5minutes to spare we had the clothes relativley dry and squashed onto the boat back to karabi so we have moved on from ko phi phi and across to the east coast (boat, bus, boat) where there ... read more

i have included this blog to describe the crazy things that happened on my last days travelling in South America and to document how ripped off i was at the new zealand airport customs check on the way home. Well technically i have gone all the way around south america catching a plane from bogota to quito -- santiago chile -- then Buenos Aires... it has definately been a trek even though i have cheated at times and caught planes. My last days in Buenos Aires had been perfectly planned out... shopping, drinking, shopping, drinking, eating repeat. and all was going well till the last day where after some shopping me and some of the boys from the hostel decided to hit the casino for some wholesome gambling fun... of course me and the american ... read more

So i decided to check out the close by city of Medellin since my time in south america is rapidly coming to an end... what did i find? well quite a nice city in my opinion not quite as nice as Bogota but quite similar in many ways once the drug trafficing capital of the world today it seems quite a safe but busy city. in the centre, markets line the streets selling rip off brands i almost picked up a pair of 'puna' (puma) shoes for a bargin price but they didn't have my size. Medellin is also the birth place of Fernando Botero and hosts some really amazing artwork and sculptures all over the city, the museum is also quite impressive and worth a look. So I spent a day walking through the ... read more