These photos are from different locations around Machu Picchu. They were also taken from 6am, when there is fog covering the moutain, until about 3:30pm. Machu Picchu is one of the best sites to see in the world and a must see if you are traveling through South America.
These photos are from the Temples of Angkor. The most famous being Angkor Wat. Howard and me in front of the lake in the afternoon. I would recommend to be at Angkor wat either at sunrise or sunset. You will get the best pictures at this time
Last summer while I was living in Barcelona, Spain I had the chance to take a day tour of one of the biggest futbol (soccer) stadiums in the world. Barcelona is home to FC Barcelona. This stadium holds over 100,000 people. I unfortunately wasn't able to go to a live game while I was living there, but I can only imagine how crazy it can get with 100,000 people inside the stadium.
The tour consists of a couple of different areas of the stadium. You first have to buy your ticket at a separate building that is located outside the stadium in the main parking lot. Last summer the ticket cost around 18 Euros (that could have changed by now). Once you pay for the ticket you enter a room that has stadium seating. A 5 minute virtual reality movie is played that simulates what it is like to be inside the stadium, and on the field during a live game.
One of the first blogs that I did when I started travelingbug.org was about traveling to Angkor Wat which is located in Cambodia. One of the ways that I mentioned on how to get there was to fly Siem Reap airlines. I read a recent post about this airlines that is not very good news for anybody using this company.
The European Union has recently banned all flights from Siem Reap airlines into the EU. They said it had to deal with safety concerns. I would highly recommend to find another way to get to Siem Reap other than use this company.
While traveling abroad I had heard a lot of stories of being able to get suits tailor made in Asia for dirt cheap. Nobody ever mentioned a city by the name of Hoi An when they were talking about suits, but I can tell you from first hand experience that this is the place in SE Asia to get your suit made. They have shoe stores, coat stores, suit stores, and basically anything else you can image that can be sown together types of stores. I have never seen a little town like this where even budget travelers were spending money on getting clothes made for themselves.
After I had checked into my guest house, I decided to walk around the streets of Hoi An. It is not a very big city so I was able to walk around the side streets, and get to the market from my guest house (which was on the edge of town) in about 15 minutes. Like every other Asian town, every shop owner up and down every street was trying to get me to come into their store to buy something from them. I had to kindly turn down a lot of stores until I found one that I decided looked like my spot. How did I decide you might be wondering...like every other decision I had made along my trip concerning where to eat/grab a drink: if there are a lot of people in one store/restaurant then I should eat there since it seems like it is a popular place.
So I went into a store called Phuong Huy (Happy Dragon). The store is located right by the market in Hoi An so it is very easy to find. I walked by the store, and there was about 6 customers trying on their finished suits. I had found my tailor! They had 3 women working in the store. I walked up the stairs into the store, and it had fabric of every color and texture lining the walls. They had a couple of manikins with suits on right by some mirrors and a dressing room in the back.
One thing I love to take pictures of while I am traveling is of graffiti that is on the walls of random buildings in cities around the world. I don't really like to discuss politics, but since the Election for the President of the Unites States is tomorrow I thought I'd put up this "art" that I saw in Argentina.
