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[nas.latif]

hey people im paul im frm new zealand, im currently staying in my apartment in bangkok. i have just been to northern vietnam and southern china..

i was born in uk lived there for 9 years when i immigrated to new zealand and the later went on my 1st OE to uk europe and then went to live in australia for 2 years and then again to the uk for another 2....i had a long wait till my next adventure which was 3.5 months in darwin australia workin and that instilled the travel bug again so last year took off for 4 months in europe and asia and this is where i fell in love with asia and this year am away again for 4 months for a bit of business...
would love to visit remote regions which i have done in sapa in 2 yrs running and next year look to go to live there for 3 months....
have travelled mainly in asia and europe withj visits to usa hawaii all of aussie and new zealand uk.....now can only travel for 4 months at a time due to business i onw but wil come here each year from now on as i love it...hope everyones travels are going well love to hear frm some of u soono ...check out my page http://www.travelpod.com/members/pauls_pad2002
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Many thanks for the email. Its good to read your background and the informtion on your travels. Ispenf a month in NZ a couple of years and and thought that the people there were the friendliest that I had come across for a long time. That visit convinced me to take my motorbike test and I look forward to getting back there again and seeing the places I missed the first time, this time on two wheels!

Nas Latif

[nas.latif]

hey people im paul im frm new zealand, im currently staying in my apartment in bangkok. i have just been to northern vietnam and southern china..

i was born in uk lived there for 9 years when i immigrated to new zealand and the later went on my 1st OE to uk europe and then went to live in australia for 2 years and then again to the uk for another 2....i had a long wait till my next adventure which was 3.5 months in darwin australia workin and that instilled the travel bug again so last year took off for 4 months in europe and asia and this is where i fell in love with asia and this year am away again for 4 months for a bit of business...
would love to visit remote regions which i have done in sapa in 2 yrs running and next year look to go to live there for 3 months....
have travelled mainly in asia and europe withj visits to usa hawaii all of aussie and new zealand uk.....now can only travel for 4 months at a time due to business i onw but wil come here each year from now on as i love it...hope everyones travels are going well love to hear frm some of u soono ...check out my page http://www.travelpod.com/members/pauls_pad2002
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I meant to add a bit on SE Asia. I have not been there before and was intending to fly from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, rather than to Singapore. Will Ii miss much?

Then to Bankokand spend some time in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos before flying on to Delhi.

Anby suggestions you can make on things to see would be appreciated. I have some guide books of the region but its better to also get comments from people. Many thanks.

Nas Latif

[nas.latif]

Wow, that is quite the story, donyan. Glad you finally made it here to TravelPod!

Welcome to the forums nas.latif! I recently got my motorcycle licence too, where are you planning on going with yours?

I am still grappling with computer technology. Thanks for your welcome.

As for the bike when I was in NZ I decided that the next time I was there I would do it by bike. Then I saw the Motorcycle Diaries and thought............. S America. Then reflected, and thought 'No' if I wanted to get to NZ! I have a Honda but need to change it for a tourer, not Harley.
Nas

[starlagurl]

Ohhhhhh, cool. I want to go Vancouver---> Mexico on my motocyclette

[nas.latif]

...In August I hope to start a travel from USA, Mexico Central and South America...
...I came upon this site quite by mistake and I am seeking advice from anyone on interesting things to do in the countries I shall be visiting...

Welcome to Mexico, nas.latif:

acording to me, some interesting things to do here: first, my location is Cuernavaca, 1 hr drive south of Mexico city, close to the Volcanos pass were Cortés conquered the Great Tenochtitlan (Mexico city Aztec name), closer to Tepoztlán and at an hour distance of two Skydive jump zones. All this is in the state of Morelos. Some images to wet your apetite: (I have visitor room & camping space)

Tepoztlán is also a flying area for paragliders, mail to: franz_mx@hotmail.com the local contact for excelent equipment & safe training. I am a rookie skydiver only, not a paraglider YET...

The two Skydive zones on my area:
Tequesquitengo skydive (link not working, try later)
Cuautla skydive

I am in direct contact with my friends in Puerto Escondido, on the Oaxaca state Emerald coast. The mexican pipeline is the fastest in the world (acording to surfing legends) and is close to mangroove lagoons like Chacagua, mainly of afromexican culture (the third root of Mexicos etnicity) an incredible sanctuary for all tipes birds, from tiny Humming birds to big pelikans, egrets, cormorans...etc. but acomodations would be more like camping, and hotels are basic. Lots of mosquitoes at dawn!!! The scenery is superb, the people extremely friendly (fishermen culture: the greatest fishing storys, some might even be true).

In Puerto Escondido, lots of travelers and inmigrants from all over the world. Hotels on the beach, or campings, no luxury but friendly atmosphere and great night life.

Click the next pics for links:

JoséLuis Mendiola link:
My excelent friend Rebeca having breakfast with a guest, at the restaurant "la Galera", Arcoiris hotel

Cecile Crowe link:
the mexpipe...Arcoiris is on that beach, left of surfer

my blog:
my good friend Ángela, selling hammocks at Arcoiris entrance from the beach.
Click this image, and you are transfered to my blog the Maule, go way down that page until you reach Robert Crowe was a surfer (he created the hotel with JoséLuis, his compadre!) You can read all my blog if you preffer, but it's mostly aviator stuff.
NOTE- the Cuautla Skydive team lives in the Arcoiris now: Skydive in Puerto! Rebeca (photo of breakfast above), when coming back from Mexico city goes to Cuautla, takes the skydive team twin Otter, jumps over Puerto and lands on Zicatela beach. Then after picking the chute canopy, se crosses the street and enters the Arcoiris hotel! ¿How many women do you know geting home that way???

If you are thirsty for more indications, just bug me any time, here or through Email: I love to be buged! donYan

Donyan

Many thanks for the information and for your offer to bug you if I need any more info on Mexico.

Nas Latif

[starlagurl]

Yeah, I'll bug you too, for my motorcycle trip in 2010!

[pauls_pad2002]

hey people im paul im frm new zealand, im currently staying in my apartment in bangkok. i have just been to northern vietnam and southern china..

i was born in uk lived there for 9 years when i immigrated to new zealand and the later went on my 1st OE to uk europe and then went to live in australia for 2 years and then again to the uk for another 2....i had a long wait till my next adventure which was 3.5 months in darwin australia workin and that instilled the travel bug again so last year took off for 4 months in europe and asia and this is where i fell in love with asia and this year am away again for 4 months for a bit of business...
would love to visit remote regions which i have done in sapa in 2 yrs running and next year look to go to live there for 3 months....
have travelled mainly in asia and europe withj visits to usa hawaii all of aussie and new zealand uk.....now can only travel for 4 months at a time due to business i onw but wil come here each year from now on as i love it...hope everyones travels are going well love to hear frm some of u soono ...check out my page http://www.travelpod.com/members/pauls_pad2002
..

I meant to add a bit on SE Asia. I have not been there before and was intending to fly from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, rather than to Singapore. Will Ii miss much?

Then to Bankokand spend some time in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos before flying on to Delhi.

Anby suggestions you can make on things to see would be appreciated. I have some guide books of the region but its better to also get comments from people. Many thanks.

Nas Latif






hey man nice to hear from u yeah nz is great to do on a bike i used to own a 400 and 550 cc bike and always was out riding in the summer...best time to go would be october as that when the weather is starting to get into the lwe may be a clean green countryow 20,s is most places and is quite pleasant...that way if u have a tent u can stop anywhere u like but be very careful as to where u stay overnight...staying on the roadside is not recommeded due to the high rate of traveller robberies im sad to say, we may be a clean green country but itsnot to say we dont have some crime as well rite its the same as anywhere else int the modern world these days and we have our fair share believe me.....i am a work broker so if ur in hawkes bay andwhere i can hook u up with some work in the fruit area....as for south east aia i also went to singapore and malaysia but when it was kind of untouched in the ealry 90,s to singapore malaysia and tiomen island of the east cost and as it was my first foray into asi i guyess i didnt know what to expect but i did love it...esp the islands....going from sing to bkk then overland to lao camodia and vietnam and anywhere else is a magnificent journey and all i can say is just allow urself enough time as there is so much to see and although im now on my 2nd journey here i have only just touched the iceberg as to whats here and im also just learning myself its such a vast peice of land that we are standing on......if u require anything specific let me know and i will do my very best to answer whatever it is u need....anyone needs my email its utbnb2004@hotmail.com but email me 1st to let me know ur msn add ins as i am having a lot of msn spammers and am just blocking them all so if i know ur adding i can be prepared ....cheers and safe journey

[inasia2008]

DonYan you are a mine of information! So cool... I love your posts, and your life story is amazing!

[donyan]

Yeah, I'll bug you too, for my motorcycle trip in 2010!

WELCOME! I feel buged & pleased ¿my favorite bug??? YES!
donYan

[travelparadissa]

Hi Starlagurl,

Thanks for what you're doing and for making people feel at home. You have a nice avata, buddy.

[starlagurl]

Hi Starlagurl,

Thanks for what you're doing and for making people feel at home. You have a nice avata, buddy.

No problem, thanks for the compliment!

I hope you stick around so that we can get to know you too.

[netravel]

[size=6]Hello From Nebraska, USA!

I am new to this site, but not new to travel. I love to travel the continental US, and in particular, Nebraska and South Dakota. I have traveled just about every route from Omaha, to Rapid City South Dakota, and beyond.

My interests include writing, traveling, Discovering anything new to me, crochet, Native American Culture and History (particularly the Lakota Sioux)

I have 3 living children (aren't they lucky?) ages 28, 21 and 14. I now have both a Grand daughter, 18 months, and a new little Grand son just born on Mothers Day 2008. I have a Chihuahua who thinks he is a cat and is very possessive of me.

I have lived in Nebraska, Iowa, Alabama and California. I always end up back here in Nebraska. I hope to one day visit England, Scotland, Portugal (my Father's family from the Azores), Japan and Germany (My Mother's side)

I have had many visitors from Europe come here to have my "grand tour" of Nebraska and South Dakota. It is wonderful meeting people.

I am very active collecting donated goods for the people of Pine Ridge Reservation which, of course, I deliver myself as often as possible!!

Glad to be here and hope to be very active on the site!

Veronica (Netravel)

[introducinlyric]

a big warm welcome to Veronica/Netravel, nas.latif, travelparadissa, donyan n pauls_pad2002

[nas.latif]

hey people im paul im frm new zealand, im currently staying in my apartment in bangkok. i have just been to northern vietnam and southern china..

i was born in uk lived there for 9 years when i immigrated to new zealand and the later went on my 1st OE to uk europe and then went to live in australia for 2 years and then again to the uk for another 2....i had a long wait till my next adventure which was 3.5 months in darwin australia workin and that instilled the travel bug again so last year took off for 4 months in europe and asia and this is where i fell in love with asia and this year am away again for 4 months for a bit of business...
would love to visit remote regions which i have done in sapa in 2 yrs running and next year look to go to live there for 3 months....
have travelled mainly in asia and europe withj visits to usa hawaii all of aussie and new zealand uk.....now can only travel for 4 months at a time due to business i onw but wil come here each year from now on as i love it...hope everyones travels are going well love to hear frm some of u soono ...check out my page http://www.travelpod.com/members/pauls_pad2002
..

I meant to add a bit on SE Asia. I have not been there before and was intending to fly from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, rather than to Singapore. Will Ii miss much?

Then to Bankokand spend some time in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos before flying on to Delhi.

Anby suggestions you can make on things to see would be appreciated. I have some guide books of the region but its better to also get comments from people. Many thanks.

Nas Latif






hey man nice to hear from u yeah nz is great to do on a bike i used to own a 400 and 550 cc bike and always was out riding in the summer...best time to go would be october as that when the weather is starting to get into the lwe may be a clean green countryow 20,s is most places and is quite pleasant...that way if u have a tent u can stop anywhere u like but be very careful as to where u stay overnight...staying on the roadside is not recommeded due to the high rate of traveller robberies im sad to say, we may be a clean green country but itsnot to say we dont have some crime as well rite its the same as anywhere else int the modern world these days and we have our fair share believe me.....i am a work broker so if ur in hawkes bay andwhere i can hook u up with some work in the fruit area....as for south east aia i also went to singapore and malaysia but when it was kind of untouched in the ealry 90,s to singapore malaysia and tiomen island of the east cost and as it was my first foray into asi i guyess i didnt know what to expect but i did love it...esp the islands....going from sing to bkk then overland to lao camodia and vietnam and anywhere else is a magnificent journey and all i can say is just allow urself enough time as there is so much to see and although im now on my 2nd journey here i have only just touched the iceberg as to whats here and im also just learning myself its such a vast peice of land that we are standing on......if u require anything specific let me know and i will do my very best to answer whatever it is u need....anyone needs my email its utbnb2004@hotmail.com but email me 1st to let me know ur msn add ins as i am having a lot of msn spammers and am just blocking them all so if i know ur adding i can be prepared ....cheers and safe journey

What a fantastic lot of information. Many thanks. Hopefully we will meet somewhere. This trip is a treat to myself after years of 9 to 5 to drift round the world then return to places that I really like and spend more time there. My email address is nas.latif@sky.com

Nas

[donyan]

a big warm welcome to Veronica/Netravel, nas.latif, travelparadissa, donyan n pauls_pad2002

Thanks Introducinlyric, for a warm welcome! And a big from Mexico to all
donYan barefoot mechanic

[donyan]

Yeah, I'll bug you too, for my motorcycle trip in 2010!

¿What type? Remember, I am a mechanic...bring a manual, I have the tools. (& guest room or tent space: wichever you preffer)
donYan

[donyan]

Hello From Nebraska, USA!
...My interests include writing, traveling, Discovering anything new to me, crochet, Native American Culture and History (particularly the Lakota Sioux)
I have 3 living children (aren't they lucky?) ages 28, 21 and 14. I now have both a Grand daughter, 18 months, and a new little Grand son just born on Mothers Day 2008. I have a Chihuahua who thinks he is a cat and is very possessive of me.

Hello Netravel:
I have two sons ages 35 & 33 + Iván the labrador who believes he is a cat, + 4 cats: Lilah, Nieve, Beba & Blau who believe to be egiptian farahons...except Blau, she thinks she OWNS the whole place.
My two sons where born at home in smallmountain villages, with Nahuatl midwifes & me assisting. THE BEST moments of my LIFE, no doubt.(they filmed ButchCassidy bolivian part, in one of this towns=Tlayacapan: The seven Magnificent-Yul Bryner's '50s version, on the other=Tepoztlan)

...I hope to one day visit England, Scotland, Portugal (my Father's family from the Azores), Japan and Germany (My Mother's side)...
...Veronica (Netravel)

Strange things we have in common:
1- when flying from Paris to Mexico, in Jan/05/1956 in AirFrance's SuperConstellation (yes, the old Connie! with three tail rudders) the fuel range was not enaugh for crossing the Atlantic on one jump: we refueled in the Azores! I had dinner, people there were very friendly.
2- my father was born in Berlin, 1909...went to the other shore in 2001 at Tequisquiapan, Mex

Glad to meet you & welcome, Veronica.
donYan from Mexico

[netravel]

Thank You all for the warm welcome
To you, DonYan, I agree with have some commonalities! That is always nice to share things in common.
I don't suppose any of you have been over in my "neck of the woods" (Nebraska USA)...If you should ever find yourself in the US, you should visit Nebraska and South Dakota.
Again, thank you
Veronica

[Jacques]

Welcome to all of you to TravelPod and it's forums..... I am around to help any of you who have any problems....just send me a note at support@travelpod.com.

If you have a problem or just a quesiton...that is what I am here for....don't hesitate to ask!

You will find a lot of members, travelers, knowledge, hints, tips and all kinds of stuff to help make your travel experience better....again I welcome you all!

[travelmonster]

Hi Elphaba, welcome to the forums!