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Welcome to China, “almost” land of the rising sun :)

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Nihaao!!!! CHINA IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
I’ve only being here for a day but I’m loving it!! It’s So different!!! I think I’m gonna have a great time here and this is only starting. At the Vietnamese border, a guy comes to me and offers me to exchange money, Dongs (Vietnam) for Yuan (China). I never exchange in the black market, but I had only 7000D ($ 0.5) and I knew the exchange rate. What could happen?? Well he was offering me 5 Yuan which was a pretty good exchange, so I decide to accepted it. It had been a good thing for me if I only knew that Chinese have cents in bills and not in coins!! The bastard gave me 5 cents of Yuan instead of 5 yuan!! Ahhh! When I noticed I could only laugh at my ignorance… [read on]

Sa Pa, the city in the clouds

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Queridisimos amigos!!!! What up?? 🙂

I made it to the train by 30 seconds, pffff, that was really close!

Yesterday morning I got to Sa Pa, a small village in the mountains of Northern Vietnam. It was dark, cold, raining and every single hotel that didn’t charged me $ 40 was full [read on]

Random events, Cambodia

Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Hey you guys!! I only posted serious thing about Cambodia and I don't want you to belive that this country is boring. Here are some of the random events that hapend during my stay I told you already that I ... [Continue reading this entry]

Pai!!!

Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Hurray for Pai!!!! It's beautiful!! It's 4 hours north from Chiang Mai, surrounded by mountains, trees, fresh air and a river :) Almost all the guesthouses are beside the river and are actually wooden huts with a small porch, a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Surviving the trip to Bangkok

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Man!! that's what I call traveling!! It all began with a very smooth ride on a boat, where I met again with Padraic (Irish for Patrick) who was diving in the same place as me. The sea conditions were fantastic ... [Continue reading this entry]

30 days to Ibiza? You better start counting again.

Friday, March 17th, 2006
It has been a long time since my last post, and there are a lot of "news" to tell, so forgive me because this is gonna be a damn long post. Sorry :? I´ll do it chronological so it´s easier for ... [Continue reading this entry]