Following my time on Easter Island I ended up spending a day in Santiago walking around and seeing some of what it had to offer. I stayed near the city center in a small hotel. It was pretty nice for what I paid for it. While I was walking around during the day, with my camera taking photos of some of the churches, a number of people told me to watch myself with my camera. They all indicated there were bad people around who would try to take it. I didn´t have any problems, however I paid attention to what I [View Full Entry]

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Well, following my blistering trip through Asia, it was time to change continents and make my way to South America. I decided to make a connection in Europe to catch up with a few friends in Germany. Getting to Germany wasn´t too bad. Coming from India, I arrived in shorts, a t-shirt and flip flops. Well Lets just say it was about 27 degrees F. I was wondering why everyone was mean mugging me walking through the airport, but figured it was the shorts, I hope! I spent a week there and cannot tell you how much the hospitality meant to [View Full Entry]

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In Agra, I decided to continue to a nice quaint area known as Rajistan and start in the city of Jaipur. I found out it is the beginning of the typical tourist route of Rajistan, which includes Jaipur, Pushkar, Udaipur and Jodhpur. I hit 3 of the four places....damn, I am a tourist! As I said, I started out in Jaipur which was and interesting ride from Agra. I got on the bus and we barreled down the 'highway' dodging everything I mentioned before.....animals, cars, bikes, most of which didn't have any lights.....I am so shocked we didn't hit anything looking [View Full Entry]

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Following my time in Cambodia, I decided to hit up India to see the Taj Mahal and to see for myself the illusions created by Rudyard Kipling and journalists of the early 1900's. I arrived in Delhi and I was expecting the airport to be a total shithole, as noted by many travelers who have passed through it. It wasn't as bad as I anticipated, and I have certainly been in worse (Cairo, Nairobi, among others). Well I fought my way through customs and into the country only to run into a road block at getting a ride. There are abuot [View Full Entry]

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Making it to Siem Reap from Phnom Penh was an interesting and uneventful bus ride. If you think barreling down a mostly paved road in a runaway bus dodging people, motorbikes, other buses and wild dogs is uneventful that is. I arrived at Siem Reap in order to see some of the ancient city of Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples. I chose to start with a day of exploring the smaller temples, nicknamed the Big Circle. I hate to admit I don't recall some of the names, but some included Ta Phom, Ban Teay Kdei, Sasong, Ta Som, Pare Rup [View Full Entry]

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I survived Thailand, Pattaya and the infamous Walking Street. Now I find myself in lovely Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I arrived a few days ago and have been seeing some of the local sights around the capital, which is filled with motorbikes, tuk tuks and a third world aura which should be experienced once in life. I say this to really allow people, mainly Westerners, to gain an understanding and an appreciation for what we have and what our countries stand for. It is really a sight to see. Upon arriving at the Phnom Penh international airport, I received my visa and [View Full Entry]

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I made it through Kathmandu and onto Bangkok, Thailand to meet a mate. I arrived a day before he did and checked into a hotel near the airport. I went to get a massage and have some grub before retiring to the room early for a movie and an easy evening of rest. I had an inkling as to what the next few days had in store for us so the rest was going to be much needed!!! The following morning I woke up early and headed to the airport....when I walked outside, it was raining like a sumbitch! I met [View Full Entry]

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Next chapter in the on-going saga of Vinny & Dog's Epic Trek I was going paragliding.......so here goes........The guy told me the rules and how to get off the groud.....he said it was easy, just run off the side of the cliff we were on. Sounds ok to me, what you think? No issues taking off or during the amazing 1 hour flight. As we were flying there were too many people around also paragliding. They were everywhere. You trun right and there was someone, you trun left and the same. I though we were going to have to dog fight [View Full Entry]

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I made it out of China, however listen to the route......From Chengdu, China, I got on a flight and left to head to Lhasa (as a stopover, not a final destination) and as we descended into the airport we had to pull up. The weather was too bad to land, so we returned the 1hr 40 min back to Chengdu. Upon arrival we went to a airplane parking lot and waited on the plane, which we spent the next 4 hours in the cabin of the plane. The fed us and played some cheesy movie in Chinese. Thanks! So we finally [View Full Entry]

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Vinny & Dog's Epic Trek Part 2: Xian and the (almost) route to Lhasa Well After leaving Beijing and settling into a nice little Hostel of sorts in Xian, (not the kind from the movie Hostel either!) I was ready to see the biggest Army of clay unearthed to date. The first day I walked around Xian to see some of the sights. I went through this place known as the Muslim Quarter and up the hutongs, or alleyways, which seem to intertwine the city and offer a endless possibilities. You can find all sorts of stuff throughout the alleys to [View Full Entry]

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