http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes a small taste of my travel adventures around this planet Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:53:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The nice owner of my hostel in Darjeeling warned me: Take care when crossing the boarder in Siliguri, sometimes strange things happen there! Should have listened to him, but I was too lazy to travel down to Varanesi to cross into Nepal from there. So yeah indeed, strange things happened. The ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/spivs-maoists-and-shit-loads-of-leeches.html It's loud, and it smells really fucking bad. Its kind of a mix between cow shit and rickshaw emissions, mixed with another 100 smells I havent even smelled in my life before. Its hot, I'm sweating like a pig, everyone talks to me but I dont understand a word when ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/now-i-know-what-a-culture-shock-is-like.html We took the endless trainride from Suratthani down to Hat Yai and from there towards Penang, Malaysia. The border crossing was the easiest I ever had. As soon as we crossed the border, Malaysian students started to enter the train, they use as transport back home from school. Soon loads ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/a-short-dive-into-the-multicultural-neighborhood-of-penang.html We arrived in Vang vieng around midday. We heared some awesome backpacker-stories about this place, and therefor we were excited to check everything out. So came we spent the next days cycling around the cornfields, climbing around in the mountain-caves, tubing down the river while getting pissed, swimming in the bluest ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/laos-becomes-better-and-better.html The last night in thailand took place in a small border town.. damn i forgot the name.. Maybe Ko chang or something like that! We took a small boat over the border and the first troubled day in laos began. We got our passports stamped and wanted to get some ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/shipping-to-laos.html When we came to phnom penh and spendet more money for pot and food, we started to make our calculations of time and money.. which were horrible. We had almost no Cambodian money left because they tricked us on the border so we had to be reaaally careful. Phnom Penh is ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/awesome-food-but-no-money.html The busride takes only a few hours sir, I promise sir! What a bunch of bullshit! when we took off from bangkok to cross the boarder to cambodia, we had a nice small bus and perfect streets, leading us to cambodia in around 4 hours. Then we crossed the boarder and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/temples-moskitos-and-horrible-busrides.html Soo I'm gonna keep it short. This is what happened: We left echuca and got a ride to melbourne with angelos brothers truck. He left us in the middle of nowhere and we had to walk into the center. There we checked in into global backpackers, a hostel with a mix ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/whats-goin-on-in-oz.html We left Katoomba because we got ourself a job in echuca - Victoria! Due to the crazy public transport prices on this continent we decidet to hitch-hike there. It didnt take long and we found out that the aussies had a crazy fear of that stuff because a killer killed ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/echuca-u-love-it-or-u-hate-it-or-both.html So yeah, finally our plane landet on sydney airport and i DIDNT throw up!! So proud.. After the airport security harnassed us for about an hour and took away my flick knife and checked us for drugs, we could finally ship off and get the bus downtown. Endlich sind wir in ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/johannes/landing-in-sydney.html