...so had a Vietnamese dinner last night which was very nice and then had a great sleep, am all checked out now and gonna find somewere to print my boarding passes and then will change at Hong Kong, have heard that when you fly in there that you fly in between the sky scrapers, cool!!!
Am also off to Ben Than market to get some t shirts, have heard is well hassly to...argh.ol well, cant be any worse then Marrakech!!
Catch you all back in the UK.
Cheers for reading my blog
H xxxx
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
tunnel update
omg hellish that was hectic.....so small and cramped inside, only managed a lil it....hellish!! So hot and pitch black, all crookied down...argh
was well interesting though! :)
didnt get to shoot though as looked a lil scetchy and could only buy ammo in sets of 10 and didnt wanna do that many!!! :(
It was well loud.
So a free afternoon and eve now...yay...am hanging out and need yet another shower and to get some more dong.
Home tomorrow.....hellish...how on earth am I gonna spit this all out????????
ttfn
H xxx
was well interesting though! :)
didnt get to shoot though as looked a lil scetchy and could only buy ammo in sets of 10 and didnt wanna do that many!!! :(
It was well loud.
So a free afternoon and eve now...yay...am hanging out and need yet another shower and to get some more dong.
Home tomorrow.....hellish...how on earth am I gonna spit this all out????????
ttfn
H xxx
the tunnels
its morning and i'm off to the tunnels in a bit :)
woohooo, had ansum mexican last night and a few drinkies, in the bar this guy was singing U2 and Coldplay songs, ace!!!
said goodbye to the group last night except Greg who is coming to the tunnels with me. We are off on a "day trip" hehe
Write more later, after Ive shot an AK47, geddin!!!
H xx
woohooo, had ansum mexican last night and a few drinkies, in the bar this guy was singing U2 and Coldplay songs, ace!!!
said goodbye to the group last night except Greg who is coming to the tunnels with me. We are off on a "day trip" hehe
Write more later, after Ive shot an AK47, geddin!!!
H xx
curry, the mekong , turantula wine...4real...
...woohooo I', in Vietnam, yay, cant wait for the morning so can say a particular phrase!!! Hellish!! :)
So Sun we went to a locals for dinner, it was amazing..absolutely gorgeous food, curries etc. Yeehaarrr!! Then tried turantual wine-omg sooooooooo strong...he brought it out in this container that holds 70 of them and then got one out (it was dead or absolutely hammered)! Got a pic of that.....
Then we went to some bars and played some pool and I got to bed at 2am....had ansum sleep and up again at 10 (my first lie in)...
So we got to the harbour and Greg's visa was incorrect so there was a kerfuffle at the embassy and then we had to leave him behind :(
The boat trip lasted about 5 hours and was awesome, speeing down the Mekong, looking at the life, took some pics but they will never compare to the actual experience-what an awesome feeling, sat in the sun with a smoke...speeding along, bliss......
We had to get off the boat on the Cambodian side and I got bitten by an ant-ouch, that side was fine, omg to the Vietnamese side was hectic...some border guy was on the boat and all angry "get off the boat" (thought I wasin Russia the way I was ebing spoken to hehe) and it docked on like a hill so had to leap off onto the mud bank and then got harrassed by a load of kids...argh...then we had to go to about 5 different places and then go back to the boat, get all our big bags out and put them through a scanner wilst some scetcy guy took photos (??!!) wtf?
So.finally, docked at Chau Doc and the uys went on motorbikes up to Sam Mtn and I chilled at the hotel as tum was bit iffy.....
Then last night we went out on different cyclos (ur practically eating ur knees) to a locals house for food and a beer (I think it is Saigon here in 'Nam).
Up again at 5.50am and then a 8 our bus journey into Ho Chi Minh (HCM) oh and 2 ferries, everybody off, everybody on and so on..at least could smoke on the ferry hehe. On the us I got everyone playing the "today I went to the market" game...was well funny, the list was turantula, korean kid, polish hotdogs and oter random tings....hellish!!
So 2.5 days left. Been out with Greg this afternoon for an earl grey and chocie cake (bliss) and got some snacks for the morn as off to the Cu Chi tunnels at 8.10am...yikes, cannae wait and I hope to shoot some guns too..yeeharrr!!! See me go....new profile pic in the making me thinks. Then my final night and then fly 7is Thurs eve so will probably ust pop down the market Thurs morn to get a 'Nam t-shirt.
HCM-omg, to cross the road, you walk and the motorbikes just weave around you, I'm not joking, its well scary...omg, ust crossed 2 on me tod..argh....
Msgs:
Thanks Jzd, Sailor and Kirtsee for msgs
ope your cold gets better Princess Kirtsee xxxx
yeah lemme know re flights Sailor xxxx
wicked u following me blog jzd, ansum xxxx
love you guys!!! :)
mum-call you fir pm and text you when land (and b4)
bro-hello????? ffs!!! argh...
stu-you know!!! ;) mwah baby xxxxxxxxxxx
ali-thanks for email
nadia-thanks for email will call ou when back and see you tues. try and have a happy birtday xx
will try and get on here after the tunnels tomorrow...am gonna go play hacky sack with the boys in the park now!! :)
Take Care
H xxxxx
So Sun we went to a locals for dinner, it was amazing..absolutely gorgeous food, curries etc. Yeehaarrr!! Then tried turantual wine-omg sooooooooo strong...he brought it out in this container that holds 70 of them and then got one out (it was dead or absolutely hammered)! Got a pic of that.....
Then we went to some bars and played some pool and I got to bed at 2am....had ansum sleep and up again at 10 (my first lie in)...
So we got to the harbour and Greg's visa was incorrect so there was a kerfuffle at the embassy and then we had to leave him behind :(
The boat trip lasted about 5 hours and was awesome, speeing down the Mekong, looking at the life, took some pics but they will never compare to the actual experience-what an awesome feeling, sat in the sun with a smoke...speeding along, bliss......
We had to get off the boat on the Cambodian side and I got bitten by an ant-ouch, that side was fine, omg to the Vietnamese side was hectic...some border guy was on the boat and all angry "get off the boat" (thought I wasin Russia the way I was ebing spoken to hehe) and it docked on like a hill so had to leap off onto the mud bank and then got harrassed by a load of kids...argh...then we had to go to about 5 different places and then go back to the boat, get all our big bags out and put them through a scanner wilst some scetcy guy took photos (??!!) wtf?
So.finally, docked at Chau Doc and the uys went on motorbikes up to Sam Mtn and I chilled at the hotel as tum was bit iffy.....
Then last night we went out on different cyclos (ur practically eating ur knees) to a locals house for food and a beer (I think it is Saigon here in 'Nam).
Up again at 5.50am and then a 8 our bus journey into Ho Chi Minh (HCM) oh and 2 ferries, everybody off, everybody on and so on..at least could smoke on the ferry hehe. On the us I got everyone playing the "today I went to the market" game...was well funny, the list was turantula, korean kid, polish hotdogs and oter random tings....hellish!!
So 2.5 days left. Been out with Greg this afternoon for an earl grey and chocie cake (bliss) and got some snacks for the morn as off to the Cu Chi tunnels at 8.10am...yikes, cannae wait and I hope to shoot some guns too..yeeharrr!!! See me go....new profile pic in the making me thinks. Then my final night and then fly 7is Thurs eve so will probably ust pop down the market Thurs morn to get a 'Nam t-shirt.
HCM-omg, to cross the road, you walk and the motorbikes just weave around you, I'm not joking, its well scary...omg, ust crossed 2 on me tod..argh....
Msgs:
Thanks Jzd, Sailor and Kirtsee for msgs
ope your cold gets better Princess Kirtsee xxxx
yeah lemme know re flights Sailor xxxx
wicked u following me blog jzd, ansum xxxx
love you guys!!! :)
mum-call you fir pm and text you when land (and b4)
bro-hello????? ffs!!! argh...
stu-you know!!! ;) mwah baby xxxxxxxxxxx
ali-thanks for email
nadia-thanks for email will call ou when back and see you tues. try and have a happy birtday xx
will try and get on here after the tunnels tomorrow...am gonna go play hacky sack with the boys in the park now!! :)
Take Care
H xxxxx
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Turantulas...buses...russian markets....
...tis all go I tell eeee....
So Sat morn was on the road again 8ish after a cracking sleep and stopped a few times along to the way to Phenom Penh. The second stop, well as you got off the bus there was a lil girl trying to sell a live turantula..it was on her arm...lots of them in the market, loose. Also fried ones.
So we had a quick and scetchy look around and it was quite horrendous, filthy etc. So we got back on the bus and Long had bought deep fried crickets, deep fried turantula and a LIVE one..again loose, so then that was on the bus too...ermm.....
We stopped after 30 mins and set him free. Then everyone was trying the spider and cricket-not me though....eeewwww.....gross.....
So we arrived in PP and had a nice picnic in the open air. We then got to the hotel and then went out on cyclos, omg, no road rules at all and loads and loads more cars in PP than SR!! Hellish!!! Pretty hectic, we then stopped at the Reunification Monument and a market opposite the Royal residence.
So...toDAY HAS BEEN HARD AND I CANT TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF, I THINK IT IS STUCK, SORRY!!! we argh, turned it off...we went to Toul sleng first which is S21 from the Khymer Rouge days...very very horrific, an old school that was used as a prison during the war, very hard images etc and the conditions they lived in, well lets just say that I am now a bit more prepared to Auschwitz now....will do a good explanantion on fb pics!! We then moved on to the killing fields (Choueng ek) which again was horrendous-you are literally walking on mass graves, clothes and bones sticking out of the ground. The torture that these guys went through was horrific and has now made me want to do a lot more research into it.
This afternoon we went to the russian market where I got a traditional Khymer scarf and an ansum fake Louis Vuitton bag!! Yay!!
I got a tuk tuk back on me tod as wanted to do a nice long update on here and try and call mum :)
2nite wer are off to some locals house to have dinner and then tomorrow off on a nice 5 hour speedboat trip down the Mekong into Vietnam. There is talk of nightclubbing tonight, oh dear-its Mongolia all over again isnt it? Hellish.
I am really really enjoying myself and the longer I am away the more and more I want to stay and travel more...I just love it so much, the freedom you have and the experiences you gain, what your eyes see and what you taste, hear, everything, ist awesome!!! :)
I am one happy H!!
Rightio, msgs:
JZD-finally, I wandered what had happened to you my ansum, thanks for the msg and hope alls well :) love you too xx
Autnie H-thanks for the msg, glad all is good back home and that ur mum enjoyed the trans sib piccies!!!
Cognito peeps-ur back to work tomorrow-hehe...ok only joking, I'll be back before you know it, not managed to get a pressie for you yet, shall I just catch a turantula???? ;)
Stu-will try and call you in a bit but after dinner at the Cuppers you probably didnt get home til 6am, hehe...
mum-call you in a min
bro-hello????????
Mr and Mrs P-I can see why you guys love it here so much, give JB a cuddle from me :)
thanks for reading everyone.
Take Care
H xx
So Sat morn was on the road again 8ish after a cracking sleep and stopped a few times along to the way to Phenom Penh. The second stop, well as you got off the bus there was a lil girl trying to sell a live turantula..it was on her arm...lots of them in the market, loose. Also fried ones.
So we had a quick and scetchy look around and it was quite horrendous, filthy etc. So we got back on the bus and Long had bought deep fried crickets, deep fried turantula and a LIVE one..again loose, so then that was on the bus too...ermm.....
We stopped after 30 mins and set him free. Then everyone was trying the spider and cricket-not me though....eeewwww.....gross.....
So we arrived in PP and had a nice picnic in the open air. We then got to the hotel and then went out on cyclos, omg, no road rules at all and loads and loads more cars in PP than SR!! Hellish!!! Pretty hectic, we then stopped at the Reunification Monument and a market opposite the Royal residence.
So...toDAY HAS BEEN HARD AND I CANT TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF, I THINK IT IS STUCK, SORRY!!! we argh, turned it off...we went to Toul sleng first which is S21 from the Khymer Rouge days...very very horrific, an old school that was used as a prison during the war, very hard images etc and the conditions they lived in, well lets just say that I am now a bit more prepared to Auschwitz now....will do a good explanantion on fb pics!! We then moved on to the killing fields (Choueng ek) which again was horrendous-you are literally walking on mass graves, clothes and bones sticking out of the ground. The torture that these guys went through was horrific and has now made me want to do a lot more research into it.
This afternoon we went to the russian market where I got a traditional Khymer scarf and an ansum fake Louis Vuitton bag!! Yay!!
I got a tuk tuk back on me tod as wanted to do a nice long update on here and try and call mum :)
2nite wer are off to some locals house to have dinner and then tomorrow off on a nice 5 hour speedboat trip down the Mekong into Vietnam. There is talk of nightclubbing tonight, oh dear-its Mongolia all over again isnt it? Hellish.
I am really really enjoying myself and the longer I am away the more and more I want to stay and travel more...I just love it so much, the freedom you have and the experiences you gain, what your eyes see and what you taste, hear, everything, ist awesome!!! :)
I am one happy H!!
Rightio, msgs:
JZD-finally, I wandered what had happened to you my ansum, thanks for the msg and hope alls well :) love you too xx
Autnie H-thanks for the msg, glad all is good back home and that ur mum enjoyed the trans sib piccies!!!
Cognito peeps-ur back to work tomorrow-hehe...ok only joking, I'll be back before you know it, not managed to get a pressie for you yet, shall I just catch a turantula???? ;)
Stu-will try and call you in a bit but after dinner at the Cuppers you probably didnt get home til 6am, hehe...
mum-call you in a min
bro-hello????????
Mr and Mrs P-I can see why you guys love it here so much, give JB a cuddle from me :)
thanks for reading everyone.
Take Care
H xx
Friday, 2 January 2009
A floating petrol station???????
hehe so am back in the hotel, leave at 8.30am, its 8.50pm now and have been up since 4am...
Tomorrow we travel 5 hours to Phenom Penh (PP) by bus (not plane) and I think that is when I am gonna be terrorised by the terantulas!!! Argh.....
So this afternoon we went to the Lake (cant remember the name-will be on fb photos) and saw the floating village. Absolute madness...a floating petrol station, school complete with basketball court, houses, pub....hellish!!! Took a lot of getting your head around. Also saw a crocodile farm.
The boat ride was excellent, really chilled. :)
Then en route back we went and lay in hammocks with an Angkor beer and watched the sunset....awesome. What an absolutely amazing day....
Perfect and still have more of this magical country to come and Vietnam,woohoo!!
Proper ansum nice and sorted!! I am LOVING this.
Update again soon...hopefully tomorrow in PP.
Msgs:
Kirtsee-thanks for text, love you too xx
Mum-I am having a great time as you probably can tell, missing you, try and call you soon, tis hassle getting phonecards out here (remember the MOngolia comedy scetch??)
Stu- its 5 for me after tonight...meh...pop pop pop xxxxxxx
Bro-are you out there?????? Hello?????
Sailor T-lemme know re the flights
Take Care and cheers for reading, hopefully it will all make more sense when you see the pics.
H xxxxxxxxx
Tomorrow we travel 5 hours to Phenom Penh (PP) by bus (not plane) and I think that is when I am gonna be terrorised by the terantulas!!! Argh.....
So this afternoon we went to the Lake (cant remember the name-will be on fb photos) and saw the floating village. Absolute madness...a floating petrol station, school complete with basketball court, houses, pub....hellish!!! Took a lot of getting your head around. Also saw a crocodile farm.
The boat ride was excellent, really chilled. :)
Then en route back we went and lay in hammocks with an Angkor beer and watched the sunset....awesome. What an absolutely amazing day....
Perfect and still have more of this magical country to come and Vietnam,woohoo!!
Proper ansum nice and sorted!! I am LOVING this.
Update again soon...hopefully tomorrow in PP.
Msgs:
Kirtsee-thanks for text, love you too xx
Mum-I am having a great time as you probably can tell, missing you, try and call you soon, tis hassle getting phonecards out here (remember the MOngolia comedy scetch??)
Stu- its 5 for me after tonight...meh...pop pop pop xxxxxxx
Bro-are you out there?????? Hello?????
Sailor T-lemme know re the flights
Take Care and cheers for reading, hopefully it will all make more sense when you see the pics.
H xxxxxxxxx
Thursday, 1 January 2009
Sunrise at Angkor Wat and the jungle.
Woohooo hello everyone, am loving this, proper ansum nice.
So was up at 4ish after about 3 hours sleep and went to Angkor Wat (AW). Lotsa people there and saw the sunrise, wasnt the most spectacular sunrise have ever seen but was awesome to be there, was pitch black when got there and had to climb up and down small scetchy steps..argh.
Got some unbelievable piccies which I cant wait to show yáll!! :)
Got one with AW in the pic and also reflecting off the lake...gorgeous!! :)
Then after that we had b'fast which was ansum (in the shadows of AW) and got hassled by the usual gorgeous Khymer kids. So so cute! :)
Then back into AW and I buggered off on me tod and went and sat by the lake, bliss, listening to mp3 and doing a bit of stomping around.
Then went to Ta Prohm (from the Tomb Raider film) and again was packed but got some cool pics of the trees growing in the temple...WOW and wee-wah-woo-wah....
Yay so en route into TP we went through the jungle...saw spiders, ants and trekked around for a bit, what an experience.
Back at hotel now and offski to the floating village in a bit-the hospital and all is floating, hellish, then off to some rice fields to sit in hammocks and have a beer and watch the sunset, yay, I bloody love this.
What a way to start 2009, thanks btw to everyones kind msgs, texts, emails etc..you know who you are.
Lotsa love
H xxx
So was up at 4ish after about 3 hours sleep and went to Angkor Wat (AW). Lotsa people there and saw the sunrise, wasnt the most spectacular sunrise have ever seen but was awesome to be there, was pitch black when got there and had to climb up and down small scetchy steps..argh.
Got some unbelievable piccies which I cant wait to show yáll!! :)
Got one with AW in the pic and also reflecting off the lake...gorgeous!! :)
Then after that we had b'fast which was ansum (in the shadows of AW) and got hassled by the usual gorgeous Khymer kids. So so cute! :)
Then back into AW and I buggered off on me tod and went and sat by the lake, bliss, listening to mp3 and doing a bit of stomping around.
Then went to Ta Prohm (from the Tomb Raider film) and again was packed but got some cool pics of the trees growing in the temple...WOW and wee-wah-woo-wah....
Yay so en route into TP we went through the jungle...saw spiders, ants and trekked around for a bit, what an experience.
Back at hotel now and offski to the floating village in a bit-the hospital and all is floating, hellish, then off to some rice fields to sit in hammocks and have a beer and watch the sunset, yay, I bloody love this.
What a way to start 2009, thanks btw to everyones kind msgs, texts, emails etc..you know who you are.
Lotsa love
H xxx
Happy New Year!!
Yay, woohoo..hope you all had a great one. I managed the aussies one last night and almost the singapore one, was in bed for the asian one and in the shower for the british one.....
hehe
ooh a few things-entered Cambodia at Poipet for future reference
Mandz and G, thanks for msgs and also for fb msgs that people have sent me, soz if not eplied yet, have very limited time.
So last night after dinner we took tuk tuks to the centre of Sien Reap...bars, motorbikes, people, all hectic!! Then we sat in a roof bar and had Angkor beer (:))
then all of a sudden the lights went out-nice lil power cut hehe!!! So headed back 11ish as had to be up at 6 (sun night no sleep, mon night 4 hours and tues night 1 hour plus a cold so was hangning out as me tibbz would say)!!
Me Stu called at asian midnight -was only on for 9 mins and ate nine pounds of me credit-argh....then fireworks, then awesome sleep and I think that I have finally lost the cold Yeepppeee!!!!
So today at 7am I had a special letter to read!! :) missing you.....
Left around 8 then 30mins in bus to Angkor Wat (google it if you dont know what Im talking about). It was awesome, didnt go the main bit-thas what Im getting up for tmorrow morning at 4am to see the sunrise there..... and also seeing Tah Prohm then! We went to quite a few temples today, Bayon and Angkor Thom (cant remember all the names-will tag them on fb)! Absolutely amazing. Am looking forward to Tah Prohm 2moro-where Tomb Raider was shot (not that have seen it)!
En route back we stopped at the landmine museum which was ace!!! Very moving. Very interesting too. Got a cool t shirt! Yay!! :)
So....loving it loving it....and still got that sunrise tomorrow....Phenom Penh and Vietnam yet...."good morning Vietnam" yyyeehhaarrrr...catch me if you can.
Hope youre are all surviving your hangovers, suffice to say I didnt have one but I did have a beer at 7.30 this morn with Long for the British NY! Hellish....
Oh....passed on frog and ants today...enough with the food terrorisation!!! hehe
Churz
H xx
hehe
ooh a few things-entered Cambodia at Poipet for future reference
Mandz and G, thanks for msgs and also for fb msgs that people have sent me, soz if not eplied yet, have very limited time.
So last night after dinner we took tuk tuks to the centre of Sien Reap...bars, motorbikes, people, all hectic!! Then we sat in a roof bar and had Angkor beer (:))
then all of a sudden the lights went out-nice lil power cut hehe!!! So headed back 11ish as had to be up at 6 (sun night no sleep, mon night 4 hours and tues night 1 hour plus a cold so was hangning out as me tibbz would say)!!
Me Stu called at asian midnight -was only on for 9 mins and ate nine pounds of me credit-argh....then fireworks, then awesome sleep and I think that I have finally lost the cold Yeepppeee!!!!
So today at 7am I had a special letter to read!! :) missing you.....
Left around 8 then 30mins in bus to Angkor Wat (google it if you dont know what Im talking about). It was awesome, didnt go the main bit-thas what Im getting up for tmorrow morning at 4am to see the sunrise there..... and also seeing Tah Prohm then! We went to quite a few temples today, Bayon and Angkor Thom (cant remember all the names-will tag them on fb)! Absolutely amazing. Am looking forward to Tah Prohm 2moro-where Tomb Raider was shot (not that have seen it)!
En route back we stopped at the landmine museum which was ace!!! Very moving. Very interesting too. Got a cool t shirt! Yay!! :)
So....loving it loving it....and still got that sunrise tomorrow....Phenom Penh and Vietnam yet...."good morning Vietnam" yyyeehhaarrrr...catch me if you can.
Hope youre are all surviving your hangovers, suffice to say I didnt have one but I did have a beer at 7.30 this morn with Long for the British NY! Hellish....
Oh....passed on frog and ants today...enough with the food terrorisation!!! hehe
Churz
H xx
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