After 1 Year on the Road, Amigo Jumps of a Bridge

HOLA AMIGOS!!

Hope you are all well and husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and pets are all treating you well!

Arriving towards the one year anniversary of my travels, I though I would give you some stats of my adventures for you to google, be amazed, envy or just laugh at how crazy this whole thing has been.

The only stat I cannot measure for you is how much I have enjoyed doing this so far and how sad it will be stop at the end of it all. However, this is not the last of my journeys

Bus Journeys: A running total of separate bus journeys with my backpack are as follows

• By Hanoi Vietnam 10
  
• Down to Ho Chi Minh City in South Vietnam 15
  
• Through Cambodia and into South Laos 27
  
• Through Laos and into Chang Mai Thailand 35
  
• Down to Bangkok Thailand 39
  
• Through Burma and back to Bangkok 44
  
• Through Thailand and Malaysia and into Singapore 51
  
• Indonesia, Philippines up to my last stop in Asia in Manila 53
  
• Then I get to South America and by bus through Colombia, Ecuador and to Cusco in Peru TOTAL 77
  

Train Journeys:

• China: Beijing to Xian
  
• China: Xi´an to Lanzhuo
  
• China: Chengdu to Kunming
  
• China: Chengdu to Kunming
  
• China: Kunming to Guillin
  
• Peru: Cusco to Machu Picchu, Machu Picchu to Cusco
  
• TOTAL 7
  

Boat Journeys: Excluding touristy ones, just counting getting from A to B on my travels

• Various In Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia: 10
  
• By Indonesia & Philippines: 15
  
• TOTAL 15
  

Plane Journeys: 13

Countries Visited: 14 in order China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), back to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, USA, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Currencies Used: Chinese Renminbi, Vietnamese Dong, Cambodian Riel, Laos Kip, Thai Baht, Burmese Kyats, Malaysian Ringgit, Singapore Dollars, Indonesian Rupiah, Philippine Pesos, US Dollars, Colombian Pesos, US Dollars in Ecuador, Peruvian Nuevo Soles

Lost Stolen Robbed:

• In China: Travel towel gets stolen in a dormitory, my nice, soft, quick-dry, carbon fibre, lightweight, blue (my favourite colour) towl which I was really attached to and made me feel at home. Yes, I was very upset.....
  
• In China: Lose my nice Nokia N80 by dropping it in a taxi
  
• In Kuala Lumpur Malaysia: Replacement Samsung D500 stolen
  
• In Quito Ecuador: Earphones for mp3 player and spare battery for camera stolen
  

Kilometers: A rough running total calculated (in straight lines) using Google Earth is as follows

• By Kunming in China 13,900km
  
• By Hanoi Vietnam 15,500
  
• By Ho Chi Minh, South Vietnam 16800
  
• Through to Krachie in Cambodia 18,400
  
• Through to Vientiane in Laos 19,300
  
• Through North Thailand down to Bangkok 21,000
  
• Fly to Burma, through Burma, back to Thailand, down to Malaysia 24,700
  
• Down to Singapore 25,400
  
• Through Indonesia and Philippines to last stop in Asia, Manila 31,900
  
• Fly to Taipei then Los Angeles 44,660
  
• LA to Miami to Bogotá in Colombia and down to Cali in Colombia 52,660
  
• Through Colombia, Ecuador, to Cusco in Peru Total 55,950km
  

Top 5 Toughest Roughest Journeys:

• 5: Ecuador: Bus from Chugchillan to Latacunga, bouncing up and down for 8 hours on torturous mountain roads, spend 30 minutes waiting for the driver to clear a landslide from the road at one point with a spade, drive past at least 3 other landslides in a tiny, seats made for midgets bus.
  
• 4: Most uncomfortable journeys: Burma, where some of the roads are more like ploughed fields. In particular Bagan to Mandalay, 12 hours of pure hell in a cramped bus, then Inle Lake to Yangon where I sat on top of vegetables for about 18 hours.
  
• 3: Vietnam: Scary bus journeys galore and only survived thanks to my Guardian Angels,
  
• 2: Mega journey into South America from Philippines to Taiwan, to Los Angeles, to Miami and into Colombia, almost 4 days, 5 airports, jetlag, all during a severe case of diarrhea!!
  
• 1: Zoige to Chengdu in China by bus, which beats the previous one purely for fear factor of driving on mountain ridges on a dusty road with a mental driver and life flashing before eyes moments
  
• AND longest single train journey: almost 24 hours from Kunming to Guilin in China
  
• AND longest single bus journey: 21 hours Lima to Cusco in Peru, I think.
  
• AND longest journey with multiple transport: excluding the 5 flights 4 days from Philippines to Colombia, it would have to be Kunming to Ping’an, which was one train and two busses and a total of 36 hours.
  

AND Finally I did jump off a bridge in Ecuador and if you want to see a video of this on DudeTV click here.

Amigo reporting from Cusco Peru, Over and Out.

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