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Karen and Colin

Where we have been

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Everywhere unmarked is probably on our "want to visit" list!


We are two Kiwis always in search of adventure and new experiences, currently hindered a bit with puppies and a mortgage, but full of ideas and excitement, just waiting for the chance to see more of the world.

Travel blogging like this is new for us, previously we've just emailed updates to people, so this blog only contains genuine blogs from our recent trips. We are slowly adding some blogs from older trips, these are highlights based on emails we sent back then (sad huh?! but it would be nice to see that 'blogged countries' map show more red countries to reflect all the places we have been to already!) If you don't want to scroll through everything, please use the search blog feature to find our entries from a particular country / continent. Not all blogs have heaps of photos, the older ones we are having to scan in prints before uploading and that takes time, and is a bit of a hassle. Not to mention having to choose only a few pictures from hundreds. We've unfortunately left out heaps of excellent photos, but this blog is only intended to give you an idea of where we have been and what we seen.

The map to the side here, the World Map Maker one, shows where we have been together - before we met doesn't count! Some places we have seen much of the country, other places have been more brief. The smaller map further down usually shows only what has been blogged (but sometimes it gets confused and highlights other places instead!)

Thanks for having a look at what we have been up to, and keep watching, who knows what past, present or future trip we'll add next. Feel free to add comments or contact us.

To see more photos of our recent trips, check out our photo album .

Check out these other travel websites we've joined: Couch Surfing , Hospitality Club , and Geocaching . OK, so geocaching isn't exactly a travel site, but its something we've just started and plan to do while travelling (and at home too).









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One night back at home after our four day dash then we took off again, this time in the split. Poor dogs, couldnt come with us this time either, and they love camping. We stopped off at Franks place in Auckland (Eurofix) to talk to him about the wedge, then carried on just past Cambridge. We met three Auckland kombis on their way down, but didnt hang with them for long as they were going straight to Karapiro, and we werent. We found a great little free camp spot between Cambridge and Tirau, on a council reserve, Little Waipa Reserve. There [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 815 words | [diary=260531] | 2008-03-28 06:36:10

Three beautiful Auckland kombis
Colin putting in his new spark plugs and the fuel filter
Lining up for the convoy

Why four days? Why not four months? Not an especially long story. Just frustrating. Still, having an adventure is what its all about. And this was an adventure, but just a mild one. First some background as to why we only had four days... We had gone down to Christchurch to buy a van. Not just any van, but another VW kombi. This time a 1980 “wedge” pop-top camper. Not to replace the split, but to complement it. Something we can abuse without feeling so bad! The split needs a bit of time off, some TLC, and we dont want to [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 36 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1840 words | [diary=260472] | 2008-03-28 06:17:19

Christchurch Catherdral
River Avon, Christchurch
Woodend Beach

Sunset
Sunset
OK, so this was taken from home rather than at Ngawha, but it is pretty neat!
Ngawha Springs - somewhere we'd been intending to go for a while, but never quite getting around to it. We'd heard various stories about the pools and the area. So Saturday morning after work we packed up the kombi and trundled off northwards. We took a few back roads, ones we'd not driven yet, and possibly wont drive again. Sure, usually we love taking the back roads, the roads less travelled, but ... these just got a bit boring and monotonous. No-where to pull off and let the dogs have a run or a swim, it was just forest and houses, [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 8 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 677 words | [diary=246045] | 2008-02-14 01:20:33

Camping by Lake Tuwhakino
Soaking in the bubbling muddy water of Ngawha
Waimate North mission house

The bus from Sen Monorum to Phnom Penh was a bit better than the one to Sen Monorum. Not more comfortable or anything, it just went quicker, and so was wilder and bumpier. Phnom Penh is a great city, as far as cities go. Big, noisy, dusty...all the things we dont like! But we still had five days there, and managed to pack all but the last one (had to pack our gear sometime!) Everywhere we stayed, either in a hostel or with Couch Surfing friends, we were woken up early by the noise of traffic or building work. The sun [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 15 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1190 words | [diary=220457] | 2007-11-18 01:09:28

Royal Palace
Silver pagoda, with parts of the Royal Palace compound behind
Interrogation room at Tuol Sleng

Mondulkiri scenery
Mondulkiri scenery
Red earth, rolling hills, jungle
In memory of my Grandma, an inspiration when it came to dealing with my travel-bug. She would have loved hearing about this trip. Sorry this entry has taken a while to add. We've been in the jungle for a few days, and there was barely any power, let alone an internet connection. Well, our hostel, Nature Lodge had power most of the time only because the guy running it had set up a couple of small turbines in the river at the bottom of his property and was generating his own. Not much though, about 400W, but as most of his [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1026 words | [diary=219765] | 2007-11-15 03:59:13

Upper Bou Sra Falls
Lower Bou Sra Falls
Traditional Hill Tribe hut, and our elephant for the day

We made it to Kratie (Krah-cheh) much quicker than we planned. We thought (been told) that we'd have to take a bus from Siem Reap to Kampong Cham, stay overnight, then take another bus the following morning. But...we took the bus to Kampong Cham ok, but when we got there we found three other backpackers wanting to get to Kratie in a hurry (even less time in Cambodia than we do) so we all piled into a taxi to Kratie. This was a couple of dollars more than the bus, but way faster. The driver took us the old, unpaved route, [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 2 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 426 words | [diary=218864] | 2007-11-12 03:36:52

Food stalls and the river from our room

By twotravelbugs
November 5th 2007

What wat is this wat?

 Asia » Cambodia » North » Angkor
More Wats. Our third day at Angkor, and finally we went to Angkor Wat. We got up early and headed off with hundreds (thousands??) of other people, mainly Japanese and Korean tourists, to see sunrise. Bit of a disappointment though. Angkor Wat was impressive, but the sunrise was a bit pathetic! Colin stayed outside the wat while I went inside so we could get two different views of the sunrise. So I got lumbered with the crowds, but still managed to find myself a decent enough place to wait. After sunrise we wandered round the outer galleries looking at the major [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 397 words | [diary=218857] | 2007-11-12 03:28:14

West (main) gate at Angkor Wat
Bas Relief, Angkor Wat
Inner Temple (central structure) of Angkor Wat

It will be hard to find words to describe the temples of Angkor Archaeological Park. So I'll start with the boat ride from Battambang to here. Long. But also great, some awesome scenery along the Sunghai River and across the Tonle Sap Lake. The river started out wide enough, lined with houses and shacks, people travelling up and down the river, or sitting there fishing. The boat didnt go all that fast, and slowed right down when the river got crowded, or we passed people fishing / drift netting. After a while the river widened right out into huge flood plains. [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 32 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 956 words | [diary=216727] | 2007-11-04 09:24:04

A boat on the Sunghai out of Battambang
A "village" of boats on the river
About to squeeze past another boat

By twotravelbugs
November 1st 2007

Chicken dodgems

 Asia » Cambodia » North » Battambang
What a difference a more honest tour "operator" makes to a day out. We actually got to see what we wanted, plus more. We are now in Battambang, having put ourselves through another day of bus rides. Remember what we the ride down to Kampot was like - the ride from PP to Battambang was worse. The bus was better - much more space, air-con worked - but the driver...well...talk about aggressive...and arrogant...he sat on the horn most of the way there, and the trip was about 5 hours. Not a nice little toot toot to let someone know we were [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 9 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 912 words | [diary=216067] | 2007-11-01 10:46:37

Rice Paddy
Part of procession around the market
The Killing Caves - the hole people fell through after being shot

It took us a long time but we finally made it to Kampot. For whatever insane reason we decided not to stay in Phnom Penh just yet and head straight out of the city for the coast. So after an 11 hour flight to Bangkok, a night sleeping at the airport (great transit lounge, nice chairs to spread right out flat on, but why buff the floor at 4am when we are sleeping?!?!), a short hop to PP, a taxi ride to the bus station, we had a few hours waiting for the bus. Hot, tired, but mercifully not bothered by [View Full Entry]

twotravelbugs - Karen and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 6 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1874 words | [diary=215698] | 2007-10-31 04:39:33

"Road" up to Bokor Hill Station
Hotel Kiri with Bokor Palace behind
Colin in the Hotel Kiri



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