Putting all of my worldly belongings on my back, i staggered out of my bungalow suffering from a lack of sleep, it was quiet and still dark with the sun just starting to creep over the horizon. The early morning start suited my mood, there was no one around, i was alone, the island was dark and this part of the journey was dead, in the distance the emerging sun was giving life to further adventures and urged me not to miss the people i had lost. I remembered fondly the friends i had made, and of the fantastic send off [View Full Entry]

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Next stop and final destination La Paz. We had to disembark from the truck to cross the Peru - Bolivia boarder. There was a rather chaotic money changing and visa application process before finally going through custom control. The guard on the boarder flicked through my passport and noticed all the entry/ exit stamps for Estonia, although I understood very few of the words i ascertained what he was saying he asked his fellow guard in Spanish where Estonia was, and the response Eastern Europe. Given Bolivia’s finest export he eyed me curiously, and asked me a question, I guessed what [View Full Entry]

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We stayed overnight in Puno where we all went for a big dinner, steak and red wine, wonderful, before setting off for Lake Titicaca. We were up early in the morning where we had cycle style tuk tuks to take us to the harbour. It turned into a race as we all told our drivers that there would be a bonus in it for him if we got there first. At the harbour there were a number of food shops where we bought food for the local people that we were going to stay with on one of the many the [View Full Entry]

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As we arrived in Cuzco i was feeling a little ill, not really sure if its mild altitude sickness, a bug, a fever or just feeling rub down, i have not really been on top form since I arrived in South America. On our first night we all went for a beer in an irish bar on the main square, inside you could have been in an O’neils, with the wooden panelled walls littered with memorabilia, i looked at the menu, cottage pie, oh yes please. They were quite a large number of the group there i had a beer but [View Full Entry]

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lonely planet describes Cambodia's second largest city as 'an elegant riverside town, home to some of the best preserved french period architecture in the country'. in reality apart from a couple of dilapidated houses with French style shutters over the windows near the river, i didnt see any preserved french architecture, the only possible link to its previous residence is one wide road that has a large grass bank running down the middle, on the whole the city is run down and far from picturesque. most visitors to cambodia only spend time in phnom pehn and siem reap so battambang is [View Full Entry]

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Kathmandu The four of us, suze, Helen, sanna and i headed to the airport to finally say goodbye to india. True to form the airport although small and relatively quiet was a mixture absolute chaos and confusion. We were helped by an Indian man who grabbed us as soon as we turned up and tried to direct us through the administrative mayhem and then of coarse wanted paying. He did successfully get our bags scanned and onto the plane, but then came the checking in, there were two people on the counter, they were doing a job that could be done [View Full Entry]

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I caught the boat from the Perhention islands to Kota Bhau at 7am with the sun rising over the larger Perhention Island. You have to catch a small boat out 20 meters to be picked up by a slightly larger boat to ferry you across, the bay was littered with these as people sadly left the perhention to reach there next destination, everybody as sad as the next to be leaving such a wonderful island. Other than agreeing that we would get the first boat out i had made no other plans with Trina and Maren about where to meet, they [View Full Entry]

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The advice I received on Ko Phi Phi was "that is a simple journey with a quick change, easy really, should take about 6 hours". The reality was that after 6 hours we were dumped in a bus station in south Thailand, if in my previous posts I had complained that it was all a bit easy and how everywhere was populated by westerners, I was getting my penance. The bus station was dusty and chaotic, luckily the locals were friendly and helped us through the complicated bus ticket purchasing process, where you queue for a voucher, which you swap for [View Full Entry]

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After a short ferry journey i walked along the pier of Phi Phi harbour and into the town with the people i had met on the way, two of the girls had booked a place in advance so i tagged along with them. I was not sure what Phi Phi was going to offer, on the one side it is refuted as being one of the most beautiful islands while on the other it is somewhere where everyone goes so i feared a heavily built up resort. Phi Phi was badly hit by the tsunami and as we wondered through the [View Full Entry]

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The way that Krabi is often reffered to you would think thatit is a beach destination, instead it is a jump off intersection for people heading on two Kho Phi Phi, Ray Lei, Ao namg and several other favorites. The journey their was by tuk tuk, boat, coach and mini bus, on one of the breraks for change of transport i got talking to two english Ladies in their 50's who were travelling around thailand, as we rolled into Krabi they advised that we would have to get a tuk tuk to the coastal resort of Ao Nang, i asked what [View Full Entry]

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