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The last leg of my holiday took me to Mexico and Belize. From Peru, I headed to Cancun for the transition from the Incan world to one of the Mayan ruins! After coming from Peru, Chile, and various other locations which can be called nothing short of third world, heading to Cancun and the ridiculously overpriced tourist world made me feel a bit out of place. I spent three days there in Cancun doing as little as possible while I relaxed from my trek and plotted the remainder of my journey. The toughest part was deciding how and when I would get to Belize, my final destination. Needless to say, I got out of Cancun as soon as I could and made my way to Chichen Itza, one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. ... read more

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 was doing and who I was around before blasting out some photos. That next morning I flew to La Paz, Bolivia, which is the worlds highest capital city. It sits at 3660 meters (thats almost ... read more

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 back on it. As I said before....it seems they just make it work (I know their traffic habits would NEVER work in any part of the Western World, but somehow most of SE Asia makes ... read more

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 and Pra Khan. They were simply amazing......some instances you literally have to climb through the doors and hallways as they are overgrown with trees, moss and other types of plantlife. Others allowed you to walk ... read more

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 him at the airport and we found our car for the two hour rain-soaked trip to Pattaya, all the while I was thinking it was good to have some company on my trip for a ... read more