Cherating turned out to be slightly more exciting than I have given it credit for. It was a quaint little surf town that the Lonely Planet described as "our first impression was that the town was dieing." We found a nice guest house more of a bungalow than anything and stuffed ourselves with amazing food! We enjoyed the beach, caught up on some emails, wandered around the small town and waited for Sheryl to meet up with her old school mate from Malaysia to go surfing! We met up with her school mate who set the ladies up on surf boards [View Full Entry]

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hey everyone! ok so I have too much to talk about hahaha, I’ve been out of internet contact for a bit and not had enough time to write so I will keep it short but with it covering a long time it will be a novel. Julia, Sheryl (Kiwis) and I headed back to krabi where Julia was flying home to NZ before hitting Canada. Sheryl is also thinking of coming for the Stampede now so we may have a party on our hands! Bonnie, the other Kiwi, arrived later that day and the 3 of us went to a lovely [View Full Entry]

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I met a few New Zealand girls at my guesthouse who have taken me on as one of their own and we have been ripping and roaring around Krabi seeing all of the sites. After arriving here in Krabi I wandered around trying to find cheap accommodation with two Canadians until we found a place where rooms were 150 baht per night. That's only $5!!!! It was such a great place with a lady with very good english so they helped plan our trips over the past few days. I jumped on a kayaking trip with the ladies yesterday and we [View Full Entry]

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So I managed to refund my ticket via phone which worked out great. I then spent teh whole day fighting with Tuk Tuk drivers and haggling over prices etc etc. If you have ever been in a Tuk Tuk you will know what I mean. If you never have, avoid them like the plague. I am tired of the hustle and bustle already. People just heckling and heckling and heckling you or trying to rip you off cause you're white. I am also slightly cynical because traveling alone in a place like this is quite stressful so I am not enjoying [View Full Entry]

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Hey all, Sorry but this will likely be a quick update without as much info as I would like to stick in a blog update. I left Wollongong sad to see my friends for the last time in who knows how long. It was a sad departure but at least I got to spend some more time with them and have a mroe personal good bye than most of the people who left in large groups last semester. I jumped on the plane and flew to Singapore on the 18th of September. When I first flew in I stopped to chat [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! I apologize for the length between updates. I have been on the road and without much time to jump on the internet to keep you lovely people all updated on my adventures. I will not go into excessive detail as there is two weeks to catch up on and much to talk about so if you are truly interested there will be some magic and some adventures I can go into greater detail so we can actually have some exciting things to talk about whe we recount my adventures. Dave and I drove north to Cape Tribulation where it [View Full Entry]

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Well I just hung around Raglan the last few days before heading up to Auckland on THursday to change ownership of the car. I stayed with the German girl I sold my car to and she left to Melbourne but her room mates invited me to stay with them until I left so I saved myself a ouple bucks and obliged. I went to a volcnao in the middle of Auckland, there are 50 not 22 like I'd originally thought, and spent the day hiking up and down the lava flows tearing up my shoes on the scoria and basalt pathways. [View Full Entry]

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I spent about 5 days in total in Raglan just surfing everyday usually twice a day for about 2-3 hours a time. It was brilliant because my hostel has a sauna and a hot tub so I just surfed, relaxed, ate and had some social beers with people the entire time. Raglan is an amazing small town with a great laid back vibe, a sleepy town where time doesn't really matter except when the high and ow tides are for the surf, and a calm get away from life in general. The days melted by and I made some great friends [View Full Entry]

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I left early the following morning to go in hunt of The Lord f The Rings scenes and began on Mt. Victoria in the city, found the scene where Frodo first encounters the Ring Wraiths and yells "Get off the Road!" I then drove to see some of the Bree locations before ending up at Weta Cave production studios which was just a small building because we aren't allowed to see the studio because of top secret movie secrets but I saw a bunch of models and sculptures and works from other films such as King Kong, the Hercules and Xena [View Full Entry]

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So that night in my car was probably one of the worst sleeps I have had in a while. I doubt I will do too much more of that unless I have to. It rained all night and the next day making my glacier experience at Franz less than reputable. The glacier was barely visible and the streams were all big to cross and get a closer look so I just packed up and drove north. I stupidly missed the panckae rocks which were only an hour out of my way but I will just have to get them next time [View Full Entry]

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