Blogs from Asia - page 14920

Hey all, well we made it to Ayuthaya! on the train, we kind of miss judged the train times from the station and ended up with a 3 hour wait, never mind, made it! Just 2 hours away is Ayuthaya the old capital city of thailand before the burmese smashed it up about 200 years ago in civil war. Anyway...its very very hot here, and its hard work. We rented bikes today and yesterday to get around (about 1.50 pound a day each! ) and this was def the way to travel. we were able to visit all the "wats" (temples) and they were amazing! all ruins but still impressive, also we saw one of the massive reclining budda's ( about 50m long and 20m high). We also saw one of the biggest sitting gold budda ... read more

Elephant riding. What more can I say? It was just the most amazing experience! We visited the Elephant Conservation Centre near Lampang, northern Thailand today. As some of you may know, the elephant happens to be my favourite animal, therefore this was especially exciting for me. Firstly, we watched the elephants bathe, with their trainers scrubbing at them until they were squeaky clean (well, relatively less smelly at any rate!). Then they were put through their paces, showing the mesmerised audience (ok, so admittedly it was mainly me who was 'ooh-ing' and 'aah-ing') of tourists how smart this large land mammal is. Highlights included an elephant race, playing the xylophone, staping on inflated balloons to pop them, and elephant painting!! Naturally, these are all behaviours that would be displayed in the wild... But anyway, this one ... read more

Hallo allemaal Vanmiddag vanuit Cambodja weer in BKK aangekomen. Wat een geweldige dagen hebben we daar gehad, en wat is het verschil nu groot BKK of Siem Reap. Na 10 dagen veel fietsers, tuktuks, en een paar auto"s nu het schreeuwerige geluid van auto"s , taxi"s , bussen en heel veel mensen. Het stoffige zand van Cambodja zijn nu uitlaatgassen en we werden verwelkomt met een flinke onweersbui. Toch is het ook hier weer zeer aangenaam met een verse cappuchino, en een warm stukje pine-apple strudel achter de p.c. in een internet cafe. Dit is ons laatste berichtje want morgennacht vliegen we terug naar Amsterdam. We hebben een koffer vol verhalen, indrukken en een paar honderd foto's op schijf. Wie ze wilt zien komt maar kijken. Bedankt voor al jullie leuke reacties. Veel liefs en tot ... read more

OK , so the lads are together on holiday doing what lads do best: Drinking and womanising basically!!! Ended up back in Phnom Penh and have found ourselves unable to leave as all the buses leave around 7/8 am and quite frankly we dont see daylight at the minute until 3 pm!!! Spent our first day back here doing some shooting at what is probably a very highly illegal shooting range!! Not quite air pellet guns or clay pigeon shooting: This is Cambodia so not a problem for AK47 Machine Guns and Colt 45s!!!! Didnt splash out on the rocket launcher at $200 a pop nor the hand grenades at $50 each though.As we thought that would just be highly irresponsible. Then it was off to the killing fields to see the mass graves and hundreds ... read more

I hope you enjoyed the pictures from Ko Phangan because I lost camera #2 a couple days ago. I think I left it at a restaraunt but they said they never found it. So it's too bad but I'm not buying another goddamn camera. No more pictures I guess. Anyway, I finished my advanced open water diving course. It was so much better than the beginner course. I really don't think your diving experience is complete until you are allowed to go down to 30 meters. That was awesome! There were so many more fish. And last night our last dive was at night. So they give you this flashlight and you go down totally freaked out. But it turned out to be my favorite dive. It was actually really peaceful being down there in ... read more