A small reflection

Over the last few months of my time away I put together a list of interesting things (highlights and lowlights from the trip)...

At the airport

• Hottest location - Bagan, Myanmar 45+ degrees
• Most stylish people - young Vietnamese women
• Most overweight locals - Bolivia
• Coldest location - London
• Most humans on a moto - 6
• Best tour guide - Maxi, horse riding in Cordoba, Argentina
• Worst toliet - on the bus from Nazca to Cusco
• Highest location - 4400 at the top of the death road in Bolivia
• Friendliest people - Koh Throng Islanf, Cambodia
• Cutest children - Cambodia
• Most useful gadget - sea sickness bands
• Heaviest package home - 12.4kgs, suits from Vietnam
• Single most expensive activity - Paragliding, Cordoba, Argentina
• Best 'freebie' on a tour - holding a snake in Vietnam
• Scariest activity - Teaching in Cambodia
• Best new drink - Iced green tea with honey and lemon
• Best new food - Indian - Masala bread
• Worst Accident - Tom crashing off this moto into a ditch in rural Laos and knocking himself out food and propper
• Best Mountain - Machu Pichu
• Worst tour guide - Mario on the salt lakes in Bolivia. We were promised an english speaking guide and he didn't speak a word.
• Dirtiest place -Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• Biggest mear - Not getting our Visa's pre arranged for Vietnam and paying a fortune at the airport.
• Worst place - Tie between Puno (Peru) and Santa Cruz (Bolivia).
• Itichest bites - Ant bites all up the back of my legs in Samipata, Bolivia
• Biggest rip off - Hoi An cooking class, we made basic food and the dude skipped two things we were meant to see
• Most expensive contry - Brazil (by a long shot)
• Cheapest place - Bolivia?
• Best beer - Beer Lao!
• Food I missed the most - Good dairy products
• Best purchase -New shoes in Peru (I kept falling over in my other ones!)
• Silliest located town - Hoi An, it floods every year because they are 100m too close from the river
• Favourite article of clothing - Black summer dress
• 1 thing I never used - battery charger
• Least sleep - none, from BA to Floripa. Awake for over 40 hours
• Most nights in one place - Hanoi, a total of 8 nights (in two different blocks)
• Worst journey - Siem Reap to Kampot. Were told it was direct overnight bus, but were in a bus station from 4-8am
• Longest journey - 19 hours from Hoi An to Saigon - Train
• First time I ate a whole tube of pringles - Samipata, Bolivia
• Best hostel - Backpackers Sunset, Floripa, Brazil - Great food, awesome spot, good fun.
• Favourite river - Nam ou, Laos
• Tme taken to hack into facebook when in a blocked location - 2 days, Vietnam
• Proudest language moment - When Spike was sick in Bolivia and I managed to get some orange juice off a vendor and take it back to spike and return the galss
• Number of times without power - too many to count
• Worst internet - Samipata (Bolivia) or Don det (Laos)
• Most tourist friendly detination - Thailand (the whole place!)

Until next time...