Hello All, Welcome to the first blog posting of the latest trip from Kif and Peter. Actually, Kif is not coming along this time. Instead, there is going to be a female voice in this blog in the guise of Valerie!!! Valerie and Peter are heading to South America and Antarctica for four months. They arrive in Cartagena and travel down the west coast of the continent, through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. When they are at the southern tip of Argentina, they go further south and head to Antarctica for a couple of weeks before returning to South America and travelling along the east coast to Brazil, making stops in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay before ending in Rio de Janeiro. The trip 127 days long, but that is the only way to see ... read more

Now I am contemplating whether or not to write this blog or not. I mean, do I tell you, do I not? I want to tell you about this beautiful, beautiful place but I don't want to wreck its cozy and lovable feel. I mean it's still a non-commercialized, non-super-touristy place, where the locals say hello to you as you pass by and cars stop to let you cross the street. It's so beautiful half of you readers have stopped reading my blog and have breezed through the photo's. Don't deny it! I don't blame you either though. Anyways, I'll tell you a bit about my Palau adventures but you have to promise me not to ruin it. I'm going back one day to check on it so don't think I won't notice if it has ... read more

Hello again, Firstly thanks for all the blog love I've been getting, glad you guys are liking the blog. I'm just happy to share our adventures and some pictures. Anyways, last time it was Northern Vietnam and Halong Bay that amazed us, this time it was the central coast of Vietnam. There is an open bus ticket option here in Vietnam where you choose the number of stops along the way from Hanoi to Ho Chi Min City. The price ranges in the $25-$35 range. Which would be ideal. If you knew how many stops and where you were stopping. So me and Max decided against it and just got a ticket to Hue. Hue is Vietnam's 4th largest city and has an old citadel which is actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Our bus was ... read more

Hello again! Well its been a little while since I last reminded you guys that we e still alive and traveling around Southeast Asia so I guess I should fill you in on what weve been doing. . . After our cultural binge in Siem Reap we decided to head south, way south to find some sort of sun and beach. The weather was promising heavy rain showers for the next 3 weeks but we decided to take a chance and head down to Sihanoukville. Sihanoukville is a small beach resort town on the ocean and seems to be one of the three stops most people do when traveling to Cambodia (Phnom Penh and Siem Reap the other two). Now Im sure its a beautiful place, very nice when its sunny and hot; however, we hardly ... read more

Hello again! So I guess I left the last blog off at the Bangkok internet cafe eh? Well that, as it turned out, was our little break in our trip. You see, we went back to the train station to catch a 6:40 train to Nong Khai, a mere 13 hr train ride away. But as our luck goes with Thailand transportation it ended up being 15 hrs. But it was alright, we each had our own pair of seats to curl up into a ball on and get some shut eye. There were also some very funny and entertaining people that came up to us to practice their English. There was a school teacher, that we had a good talk with right before we got off the train. From the train we took a tuktuk ... read more