Hey everyone, right now im sitting in the sacred valley somewhere close to machu pichu! Arrived in Peru, 3 days ago, and internet seems limited around here. Anyhows, i decided it would be best for me to write something before i start the nightmare tomorrow! Its the walk to Machu Pichu, its starting tomorrow at 8, and we are gonna be walking for 6 hours, which should be fine, but the second day we are walking for 8! and we are climbing a peak that reaches 4200m above sea level. The oxygen is gonna be in high demand there, but im sure it will be fine. The peak is actually called Dead Woman Pass... Im sure it will be fine!
Anyhows, Peru is awsome :) met up with a new group now, and there are alot of cool people here, 2 norwegian guys, an english barrister and a canadian girl. Those are the ones under 30 atleast ^^
Peru seems abit more poverty strikken the Guatamala, but people here are really friendly and i have allready stocked up gifts for friends and family.
Im gonna have to cut this short since its 21:20 here, and i really gotta be awake for tomorrows walk. walking 3 flights of stairs at 3600m is hard in itself, hicking outside will prob be worse!
Hope you all have had a great Easter!
J
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Guatamala City - Atitlan
Well gotta keep this short, not really sure if anyone is reading this anymore anyhows, Spent last night in a nice hotel in Guatamala City, we took a shit awful bus, that left us both aking with knee and leg pains for the day. Checked into the best western hotel, cost 60Usd. So very expensive. This morning we took a taxi to Antigua, where we got slightly crashed into by a random dude in an old car. We are staying in the sickest little room i have ever seen, 3 beds, a lightbulb, 2 holes in the wall, mouldy bathroom, but then again we have a hamock! Who can complain with a hamock hanging outside! Staying here for one night, had a look at a language school earlier, pretty crazy consept really. 30 hours of private tutoring, 21 meals, and a one week stay in someoenes house for 90USD. so for around 50,000Nok you can live here for a year with no extra expenses, being catered and cooked for. Well i need food, fat people need food to you know!
Have a nice easter people.
J
Have a nice easter people.
J
Monday, April 2, 2007
Guatamala - Tikal
So the entry last night, as most of you probably figured, was indeed an aprils fool joke.
We are right now in Flores in Guatamala, the Guatamlian people seem very friendly, and my image of the country as a crazed country has gone. Feel alot safer here then i did in belize. The people here smile alot, and all the kids look really cute. People here dont seem to have a hidden agenda, and dont nag as much as in belize and in mexico. Which does make the whole visiting part better, not having to shake my head and mumble no no no all the time.
We arrived in Flores on the 1st, and at 3:30 in the morning we had to get up again, we took a buss to Tikal in the total dark, and once we arived, we walked for 30 min with torches, until we came to a dark temple lingering over the forrest, we climbed it and sat there waiting for the sun to rise! Unfortunatley tho, it was foggy, and we couldent see much, but atleast i dident have to be afraid of falling down the stairs. We had a verry energic and smart tourguide showing us around, i made sure to take abit of pictures and will post them soon.
After the walk we had still not had anything to eat for 14 hours, we had an hour until the buss arrived, so we thought we would grab a plate to eat at Jaguar Inn. Peder ordered some breakfast, and i ordered a English Breakfast. When the waiter 30 min after we ordered comes with the food, he has bought me an American breakfast, which was nothing like what i had ordered. I told him I ordered an english breakfast and he walks off to the kitchen, then he comes back and tells me; We dont have any tomatos left. We tried to hoplessly comunicate with the missplaced pleb, and we think we got it across that, just because on ingredient from the english breakfast was missing, he dident have to replace all the other ingredients and we thought he understood, so i sat there watching peder have his breakfast, and when he was done, the waiter quickly comes inn and hands us the bill :( He dident get a tip
Well tomorrow at 22:00 we are getting an express night buss to Guatamala City then transfering direct from there to Antigua! Antigua seems like an awsome little multicultural place, and Iam really looking forward to it.
J
We are right now in Flores in Guatamala, the Guatamlian people seem very friendly, and my image of the country as a crazed country has gone. Feel alot safer here then i did in belize. The people here smile alot, and all the kids look really cute. People here dont seem to have a hidden agenda, and dont nag as much as in belize and in mexico. Which does make the whole visiting part better, not having to shake my head and mumble no no no all the time.
We arrived in Flores on the 1st, and at 3:30 in the morning we had to get up again, we took a buss to Tikal in the total dark, and once we arived, we walked for 30 min with torches, until we came to a dark temple lingering over the forrest, we climbed it and sat there waiting for the sun to rise! Unfortunatley tho, it was foggy, and we couldent see much, but atleast i dident have to be afraid of falling down the stairs. We had a verry energic and smart tourguide showing us around, i made sure to take abit of pictures and will post them soon.
After the walk we had still not had anything to eat for 14 hours, we had an hour until the buss arrived, so we thought we would grab a plate to eat at Jaguar Inn. Peder ordered some breakfast, and i ordered a English Breakfast. When the waiter 30 min after we ordered comes with the food, he has bought me an American breakfast, which was nothing like what i had ordered. I told him I ordered an english breakfast and he walks off to the kitchen, then he comes back and tells me; We dont have any tomatos left. We tried to hoplessly comunicate with the missplaced pleb, and we think we got it across that, just because on ingredient from the english breakfast was missing, he dident have to replace all the other ingredients and we thought he understood, so i sat there watching peder have his breakfast, and when he was done, the waiter quickly comes inn and hands us the bill :( He dident get a tip
Well tomorrow at 22:00 we are getting an express night buss to Guatamala City then transfering direct from there to Antigua! Antigua seems like an awsome little multicultural place, and Iam really looking forward to it.
J
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Im Fucked!
Ok... i have no idea what the hell to do! This morning we where going to chetumal on the "7:30" water taxi. Peder had abit to drink last night so i guess he was abit groggy. Anyhows, now im still on Caye Caulker, Peder is not.
The boat was meant to leave at 7:30, or so i was told, I got there at 7, and unloaded my bags, was gonna run get some food and stuff for the boat trip and when i got back the boat was gone. Peder has my bag, and my Passport, and when you read this Peder try and do a collect call to the Miramars Hotel, they are expecting the call. Peder lost his visa card in Cuba, And his travel charger doesent work so he cant use his phone :S i just hope he has enough money to stay someplace tonight. If anyone is to hear from Peder, tell him to come back to Caye Caulker, cause i cant leave without my passport.
J
The boat was meant to leave at 7:30, or so i was told, I got there at 7, and unloaded my bags, was gonna run get some food and stuff for the boat trip and when i got back the boat was gone. Peder has my bag, and my Passport, and when you read this Peder try and do a collect call to the Miramars Hotel, they are expecting the call. Peder lost his visa card in Cuba, And his travel charger doesent work so he cant use his phone :S i just hope he has enough money to stay someplace tonight. If anyone is to hear from Peder, tell him to come back to Caye Caulker, cause i cant leave without my passport.
J
Friday, March 30, 2007
Caye Caulker - Belize
Hey again!
Would just like to say thanks to people who commented on my entries! Really nice to get them. :) And if i ever was to rob a bank, Sangeet would of course be involved inn it.
So we left Corozal by the means of a little speed boat with 525Bhp and headed off to the island of San Pedro, The island life seemed very much like mainland life, and the people where just as relaxed, we had to get up at 6 in the morning to get the boat so we did not have time to eat breakfast, once we got to San Pedro we had only 10 min to get the next boat which took us out to Caye Caulker, The boat was absolutely packed! But i started talking to a Canadian woman who had retired and moved to Playa Del Carmen , and was visiting friends in Caye Caulker. Once we arrived we got met by some taxi guy who offered us a "Great cheap place" where we could stay. Never listen to people who suggest things when you get off the boat :( We ended up in some awful place with 2 hard beds, and a garden chair. The shower was exceptionally odd, as it smelt of sewage! My god was i glad that Peder called shotgun on the shower hoping to get all the warm water.
Once we unpacked we went running for a place to eat with the lonely planet book in hand. We needed some seriously nice food. We quickly found out that restaurant's don't necessarily open at the time it says on the door. We found a place called Rasta Pasta and proceeded to go inn, once we got inside we where saw a Rastafarian dude sitting on a table, we asked him; "Are you guys open?" he cheerfully replied "No mon"
"When are you gonna open?" He looked at his watch, thought for a couple of seconds then told us "Nahh, Not today mon" This is how laid back people are here. And there are no cars, just golf caddies, it takes 15 min to walk from north to south, and about 5 min east to west. I think this trip will by far be the most relaxed of the journey.
Peace mon!
J
Would just like to say thanks to people who commented on my entries! Really nice to get them. :) And if i ever was to rob a bank, Sangeet would of course be involved inn it.
So we left Corozal by the means of a little speed boat with 525Bhp and headed off to the island of San Pedro, The island life seemed very much like mainland life, and the people where just as relaxed, we had to get up at 6 in the morning to get the boat so we did not have time to eat breakfast, once we got to San Pedro we had only 10 min to get the next boat which took us out to Caye Caulker, The boat was absolutely packed! But i started talking to a Canadian woman who had retired and moved to Playa Del Carmen , and was visiting friends in Caye Caulker. Once we arrived we got met by some taxi guy who offered us a "Great cheap place" where we could stay. Never listen to people who suggest things when you get off the boat :( We ended up in some awful place with 2 hard beds, and a garden chair. The shower was exceptionally odd, as it smelt of sewage! My god was i glad that Peder called shotgun on the shower hoping to get all the warm water.
Once we unpacked we went running for a place to eat with the lonely planet book in hand. We needed some seriously nice food. We quickly found out that restaurant's don't necessarily open at the time it says on the door. We found a place called Rasta Pasta and proceeded to go inn, once we got inside we where saw a Rastafarian dude sitting on a table, we asked him; "Are you guys open?" he cheerfully replied "No mon"
"When are you gonna open?" He looked at his watch, thought for a couple of seconds then told us "Nahh, Not today mon" This is how laid back people are here. And there are no cars, just golf caddies, it takes 15 min to walk from north to south, and about 5 min east to west. I think this trip will by far be the most relaxed of the journey.
Peace mon!
J
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Corozal - Belize
Hey people!
Right now I am sitting in an internet cafe in Coruzal in Belize, its 7pm ,and there is no AC here and its way to warm! We got up early this morning and left from a hostel in Tulum, and we tok a bus to a town in the south of mexico called Chetumal. Where i went to get out some money from the atm, Once i got the bank the sirens where going off, and there was 7-8 armed police officers standing outside the Bank, and as i left a fire engine arrived. What happend there i will prob never know, but it sure seemed suspicious! Once we got to the bus station we got picked up by another bus, wich would have been in a very bad standard had it been used for Russefeiring, it was bright blue, and it read Neptune busses along the side. It was then very clear to us that Belize would be a very differnt country. Once we crossed the borders we had to go through customs, and the officer asked us if we had any tobacoo or alochol with us, we told him we had 10 cigars from cuba with us. He went quite and told us we could go, it seemed that they where ment to be taxed, but that the officer just couldent be bothered!
Once we got into the Town of Corozal it was easy to see how hoplesly laid back everyone is, everyone is riding around on old bikes at a very slow place. It seems like Belize comatozed itself, but people here are very friendly, and they all speak english, although the dialect is abit different comunication is not a problem :)
Tomorrow moring at 7 we are getting a spead boat that does 50mp/h and going San Pedro which is a little island close to Caya Caulker which is our final destination for the day, and also for a couple of days. Its said to be one of the most laidback places on earth, Shop ovners close their shops if they feel they made enough money for the day, there is no cars either. The island is only 4-5 miles long and a mile wide. So getting around wont be much of a problem :) The food in belize seems to be good, and so do the people. So ill leave you guys with a local quote and i hope you are enjoying the spring around the world.
"Life's an eaze in Belize"
J
Right now I am sitting in an internet cafe in Coruzal in Belize, its 7pm ,and there is no AC here and its way to warm! We got up early this morning and left from a hostel in Tulum, and we tok a bus to a town in the south of mexico called Chetumal. Where i went to get out some money from the atm, Once i got the bank the sirens where going off, and there was 7-8 armed police officers standing outside the Bank, and as i left a fire engine arrived. What happend there i will prob never know, but it sure seemed suspicious! Once we got to the bus station we got picked up by another bus, wich would have been in a very bad standard had it been used for Russefeiring, it was bright blue, and it read Neptune busses along the side. It was then very clear to us that Belize would be a very differnt country. Once we crossed the borders we had to go through customs, and the officer asked us if we had any tobacoo or alochol with us, we told him we had 10 cigars from cuba with us. He went quite and told us we could go, it seemed that they where ment to be taxed, but that the officer just couldent be bothered!
Once we got into the Town of Corozal it was easy to see how hoplesly laid back everyone is, everyone is riding around on old bikes at a very slow place. It seems like Belize comatozed itself, but people here are very friendly, and they all speak english, although the dialect is abit different comunication is not a problem :)
Tomorrow moring at 7 we are getting a spead boat that does 50mp/h and going San Pedro which is a little island close to Caya Caulker which is our final destination for the day, and also for a couple of days. Its said to be one of the most laidback places on earth, Shop ovners close their shops if they feel they made enough money for the day, there is no cars either. The island is only 4-5 miles long and a mile wide. So getting around wont be much of a problem :) The food in belize seems to be good, and so do the people. So ill leave you guys with a local quote and i hope you are enjoying the spring around the world.
"Life's an eaze in Belize"
J
Monday, March 26, 2007
Day 5-8 Cuba - Playa Del Carmen
Well, i cant really be bothered to write so much more about cuba, wrote for 2 hours last night, and i dont really see the point in writing it so detailed again! We are in Playa Del Carmen at the moment where we are enjoying the sun and the taco´s! The last days in Cuba where absolutley fenomenal! Much thanks to the close friendship of our new sisters; Jo and Sangeet. Will never forget those 2! Sangeet is an amazing little firecracker of a 29 year old whose smile could cure cancer! Joanna is a great looking english girl (very rare) with bannanafobia, yes thats right. She is scared of bannanas! Had loads of fun with them and i hope we can keep in touch!
But now i better go down the road and get som Fahjitas and get to bed, tomorrow we are taking the bus to Tuluum, which is a city further south of Playa Del Carmen, Bringing us closer to Belize where we will hopefully spend some time.
P.S I found that mexican people pretty much all look the same! But they are awsomly friendly! Will write more when i have time! Cheeerio!
J
But now i better go down the road and get som Fahjitas and get to bed, tomorrow we are taking the bus to Tuluum, which is a city further south of Playa Del Carmen, Bringing us closer to Belize where we will hopefully spend some time.
P.S I found that mexican people pretty much all look the same! But they are awsomly friendly! Will write more when i have time! Cheeerio!
J
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