Been to Sumatra this summer
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I've been here and there, don't hate, lol.
I just think, I am stil young and able to go these places, why not now? Won't be able to when I am old.
And when I am old and don't have anything anymore I better have some damn good memories.
Good thing going to Cambodia! What are you going to do there? Where exactly do you stay or you'll travel around?
Don't worry about the wife, every asian woman is for sale and they come cheap.
I just think, I am stil young and able to go these places, why not now? Won't be able to when I am old.
And when I am old and don't have anything anymore I better have some damn good memories.
Good thing going to Cambodia! What are you going to do there? Where exactly do you stay or you'll travel around?
Don't worry about the wife, every asian woman is for sale and they come cheap.
LMAO that's about the same US. lmao at your nickname too haha j/p
Thanks yeah it was quite an adventure, we didn't plan anything. We would have gone crazy if we did because they all have elastic watches. What basicly means if you have to catch a bus to some place. These are not like normal busses but they leave from a station and you have to buy a ticket in advance. They are always a minimum of one hour late. So you can't really have a plan because it will get screwed up anyway.
One time we wanted to take a bus that went between two cities and left at 5 in the afternoon. Knowing every bus we took earlier was more then one hour late. So we arrived there at 4.55 this guy from whom we had bought the tickets came up to us, started yelling in Indonesian which I couldn't make anything out of. Some other people started medling. And soon we found out he was trying to tell us the bus left already.
We could take scooterbike rides to another part of town to still catch the bus. Nice if you are both carrying two bagpacks and you're sitting behind some guy on a scooter which is going through some chaos traffic I've only seen in Asia.
But when we get there only ten minutes later we find out the bus who should have been there only minutes after 5 hadn't been there yet.
So we wait.. other people who wanted to go with the 5 o clock bus started appearing.. and we wait some more.
8 o clock the 5 o clock bus arrives. This was the most extreme I've experienced though. But the strange part for me to see with this is, nobody got angy or annoyed even. For them this was normal; 'if the bus isn't here yet, no problem it will come later' or something they must think.
But not planning anything helped out on the adventures part a lot.
Thanks yeah it was quite an adventure, we didn't plan anything. We would have gone crazy if we did because they all have elastic watches. What basicly means if you have to catch a bus to some place. These are not like normal busses but they leave from a station and you have to buy a ticket in advance. They are always a minimum of one hour late. So you can't really have a plan because it will get screwed up anyway.
One time we wanted to take a bus that went between two cities and left at 5 in the afternoon. Knowing every bus we took earlier was more then one hour late. So we arrived there at 4.55 this guy from whom we had bought the tickets came up to us, started yelling in Indonesian which I couldn't make anything out of. Some other people started medling. And soon we found out he was trying to tell us the bus left already.
We could take scooterbike rides to another part of town to still catch the bus. Nice if you are both carrying two bagpacks and you're sitting behind some guy on a scooter which is going through some chaos traffic I've only seen in Asia.
But when we get there only ten minutes later we find out the bus who should have been there only minutes after 5 hadn't been there yet.
So we wait.. other people who wanted to go with the 5 o clock bus started appearing.. and we wait some more.
8 o clock the 5 o clock bus arrives. This was the most extreme I've experienced though. But the strange part for me to see with this is, nobody got angy or annoyed even. For them this was normal; 'if the bus isn't here yet, no problem it will come later' or something they must think.
But not planning anything helped out on the adventures part a lot.
I'm going to check out the Angkor temples and various other places, kick it with poor ass people for a while. Nice hotels in Cambodia cost about $10-$15 a night and you can stay at cheap places for $7-$8 a night, so I'll probably stay various places and just travel a bit, site seeing and trying to be a photographer. Cabs and transportation is cheap as hell there, everything is cheap in fact and you can get marijuana pizza's ordered to your hotel too lol. Hopefully I wont end up on National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad.
Thats good shit, I kicked it with hella poor people when I was in Sumatra. Never heard of a weed pizza but if the change is there, take it.
We could buy mushrooms in our hotel, picked fresh from the jungle. Sadly the girl I was traveling with was sick at that time and I didn't want to take them by myself when she was sick. So a missed oppertunity for me..
Try to get some info on some good places before you go there, we traveled with a lonely planet, they also have one for Cambodja, it can help you out a lot. Cheap hotels and other travelers experiences including prices are in there.
http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/Primar...D=1252130632430&lpaffil=lpcomsearch-shoplinks
We could buy mushrooms in our hotel, picked fresh from the jungle. Sadly the girl I was traveling with was sick at that time and I didn't want to take them by myself when she was sick. So a missed oppertunity for me..
Try to get some info on some good places before you go there, we traveled with a lonely planet, they also have one for Cambodja, it can help you out a lot. Cheap hotels and other travelers experiences including prices are in there.
http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/Primar...D=1252130632430&lpaffil=lpcomsearch-shoplinks