Music: Choi Voi by Buc Tuong
I accidentally came across a couple of emails I wrote to my cousins a little over a week after I came back from my trip to South America.. reading back, now I'm itching to travel.. well, actually i already have a plan in the works.. its pretty much confirmed actually, since I've bought tickets and all.. hehehehehhehehe. here's the first email.. written in February 2011.
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yes it is still surreal that i've actually gone to south america and made it back... i remember thinking it was all jsut a dream last year.. all the hours and nights spent on planning it was totally worth it. 3 weeks was nothing.. SA should be done in 3 months! i definitely wanna go back there again.. anecdotes and stories.. i dont even know where to begin. i remember sometime during the trip i thought i should start a travel journal.. it would be so awesome to be able to write down the small things u'd experience during ur travels, things that u'd normallly forget but upon reading about them again, it would bring back memories and probably laughter... but who am i kidding... malas gila kot!! but to have one would be really awesome really.. it feels too late to start now since ive been to quite a few places for the past few years.. but then again its better late than never right? i have 50 more years ahead of me to still go on travels.. whats that compared to a few years so far? i'll sit on it for now.
all those things about SA being dangerous... its overrated really... i think if ure not careful even KL is dangerous.. how many times have u heard of ppl being pick pocketed in rome? spain? london? its the same everywhere.. just apply common sense and u'll be fine. its not like travelers in SA go looking for drug lords and cartels whateever right? so all the while during the trip i felt nothing but safe and secure.. just stick to the right places and the right people and all would be ok. the only place i felt a bit menakutkan is rio. one thing i can say about the people of SA, yes this applies to all the ppl in all the countries i went to namely argentina uruguay chile bolivia peru brazil, they are very very very super friendly!! nothing like the europeans... and even more friendly than americans (they are friendly but superficial), but south americans are genuinely friendly..and very nice people.. i totally did not expect that all so it was a pleasant surprise really and made me enjoyed the trip more.
before the trip i kinda contained my excitement for a bit until even when we flew that night to Buenos aires i STILL wasnt excited... my friends thought i was crazy and weird and they couldnt understant it because they've been excited weeks before the trip! i just didnt want to over expect so that in turn i would enjoy the trip more.. then again when i went to beijing and dubai pun the same thing happened.. i guess im its my defence mechanism so to speak when it comes to traveling.. only that i've only realized it now hahaha...
one important advice when going to SA, if you move around the cities/countries using the airplane, and u have connecting flights on the same day.. make sure u do it on the SAME airline.. we missed ours and were stranded in Lima for 2 days and had to buy new tickets spent a fortune for that but thank god we took travel insurance (tak pernah terfikir nak amik pun before this), so we are now working towards getting the refunds and compensation. we werent planning to stay in Lima pun but ended up staying there for 2 nights and terpaksa reduce one night in iguassu and rio.. turned out ok in the end... it was the first time all of us ever experienced being stranded anywhere... and we were running around the airport like crazy to all the travel agencies and ticket counters like a headless chicken for 3 blardy hours to ask about all the flights out of Lima to all the big cities in SA but mostly were full coz carnaval is just around the corner bla bla bla.. we managed to find a solution in the end but we could've been stranded there longer and miss our flight back to KL even! but all turned out ok in the end and we had fun in Lima too!
the only thing i regretted was not being able to go see the Itaipu Dam because well it is the biggest hydro dam with the highest generation capacity in the world, due to being stranded in Lima. Three Gorges Dam in China pun belum dapat challenge lagi (after full completion of the TGD it might surpass Itaipu). i was really disappointed at the time.. like super duper sad and my friend asked me if i was ok (hours later) i said i was, well if i said i wasnt i wouldnt have changed anything would it and i didnt want to spoil the mood.. the way we react especially during times like this really affects the outcome of a certain activity, so i thought it was important for me to contain my disappointment.. i'll probably admit to my friends how i really felt this weekend hahahaha, we're gonna meet up to compile the pictures....
believe it or not i only took 1600 pictures, did not even finish using my 4GB sd card, and this time i actually increased the size of my pics.. usually aku buat 2mb je this time i set it to 5mb. oh well.. but but but, my friend took like 6000 pictures and finished 20GB worth of space on the many sd cards that she brought.. she bought a canon s95 before the trip and oh man that camera is awesome! the other friend had a canon s90 macam korang and then rosak sbb masuk air.. gila sedih!! my camera macam di anak tirikan jugak laa sbb tak cukup gempak right.. the other friend had a lumix yg ada gps and can detect where u are after snapping a picture of a famous monument or place or whatever.. cool right..
ok i just realized i havent been talking about any of the places in SA hahaha.. but my favorite places are La Paz in Bolivia.. and the whole of Peru (at least where we went anyway) these places i would say is the REAL south america... (at least amongst the countries we went too).. more on the places later.. like i said, i dont even know where to begin!
p/s: and for the first time ever, i managed to finish reading a book during a travel trip!
I accidentally came across a couple of emails I wrote to my cousins a little over a week after I came back from my trip to South America.. reading back, now I'm itching to travel.. well, actually i already have a plan in the works.. its pretty much confirmed actually, since I've bought tickets and all.. hehehehehhehehe. here's the first email.. written in February 2011.
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yes it is still surreal that i've actually gone to south america and made it back... i remember thinking it was all jsut a dream last year.. all the hours and nights spent on planning it was totally worth it. 3 weeks was nothing.. SA should be done in 3 months! i definitely wanna go back there again.. anecdotes and stories.. i dont even know where to begin. i remember sometime during the trip i thought i should start a travel journal.. it would be so awesome to be able to write down the small things u'd experience during ur travels, things that u'd normallly forget but upon reading about them again, it would bring back memories and probably laughter... but who am i kidding... malas gila kot!! but to have one would be really awesome really.. it feels too late to start now since ive been to quite a few places for the past few years.. but then again its better late than never right? i have 50 more years ahead of me to still go on travels.. whats that compared to a few years so far? i'll sit on it for now.
all those things about SA being dangerous... its overrated really... i think if ure not careful even KL is dangerous.. how many times have u heard of ppl being pick pocketed in rome? spain? london? its the same everywhere.. just apply common sense and u'll be fine. its not like travelers in SA go looking for drug lords and cartels whateever right? so all the while during the trip i felt nothing but safe and secure.. just stick to the right places and the right people and all would be ok. the only place i felt a bit menakutkan is rio. one thing i can say about the people of SA, yes this applies to all the ppl in all the countries i went to namely argentina uruguay chile bolivia peru brazil, they are very very very super friendly!! nothing like the europeans... and even more friendly than americans (they are friendly but superficial), but south americans are genuinely friendly..and very nice people.. i totally did not expect that all so it was a pleasant surprise really and made me enjoyed the trip more.
before the trip i kinda contained my excitement for a bit until even when we flew that night to Buenos aires i STILL wasnt excited... my friends thought i was crazy and weird and they couldnt understant it because they've been excited weeks before the trip! i just didnt want to over expect so that in turn i would enjoy the trip more.. then again when i went to beijing and dubai pun the same thing happened.. i guess im its my defence mechanism so to speak when it comes to traveling.. only that i've only realized it now hahaha...
one important advice when going to SA, if you move around the cities/countries using the airplane, and u have connecting flights on the same day.. make sure u do it on the SAME airline.. we missed ours and were stranded in Lima for 2 days and had to buy new tickets spent a fortune for that but thank god we took travel insurance (tak pernah terfikir nak amik pun before this), so we are now working towards getting the refunds and compensation. we werent planning to stay in Lima pun but ended up staying there for 2 nights and terpaksa reduce one night in iguassu and rio.. turned out ok in the end... it was the first time all of us ever experienced being stranded anywhere... and we were running around the airport like crazy to all the travel agencies and ticket counters like a headless chicken for 3 blardy hours to ask about all the flights out of Lima to all the big cities in SA but mostly were full coz carnaval is just around the corner bla bla bla.. we managed to find a solution in the end but we could've been stranded there longer and miss our flight back to KL even! but all turned out ok in the end and we had fun in Lima too!
the only thing i regretted was not being able to go see the Itaipu Dam because well it is the biggest hydro dam with the highest generation capacity in the world, due to being stranded in Lima. Three Gorges Dam in China pun belum dapat challenge lagi (after full completion of the TGD it might surpass Itaipu). i was really disappointed at the time.. like super duper sad and my friend asked me if i was ok (hours later) i said i was, well if i said i wasnt i wouldnt have changed anything would it and i didnt want to spoil the mood.. the way we react especially during times like this really affects the outcome of a certain activity, so i thought it was important for me to contain my disappointment.. i'll probably admit to my friends how i really felt this weekend hahahaha, we're gonna meet up to compile the pictures....
believe it or not i only took 1600 pictures, did not even finish using my 4GB sd card, and this time i actually increased the size of my pics.. usually aku buat 2mb je this time i set it to 5mb. oh well.. but but but, my friend took like 6000 pictures and finished 20GB worth of space on the many sd cards that she brought.. she bought a canon s95 before the trip and oh man that camera is awesome! the other friend had a canon s90 macam korang and then rosak sbb masuk air.. gila sedih!! my camera macam di anak tirikan jugak laa sbb tak cukup gempak right.. the other friend had a lumix yg ada gps and can detect where u are after snapping a picture of a famous monument or place or whatever.. cool right..
ok i just realized i havent been talking about any of the places in SA hahaha.. but my favorite places are La Paz in Bolivia.. and the whole of Peru (at least where we went anyway) these places i would say is the REAL south america... (at least amongst the countries we went too).. more on the places later.. like i said, i dont even know where to begin!
p/s: and for the first time ever, i managed to finish reading a book during a travel trip!
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