i have booked my flight home and i will be back home in 2 days!!!!!, and sadly no stop over in schipol, but a trip over there is due very soon, within coming weeks. we´ve made some great dutch mates on this trip, and it looks like our trips to dam will never be the same again. not so much pure central carnage, more like half central carnage and half hanging in some actually dutch part of town!! yay!!
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first off, HELLO EVERYONE, NO TIME NO A.C.D, im 8 months into my round the world trip, and am currently sitting in la serena, north chile.
our trip so far, through asia, oz, n.z and s.america has been fucking unbelievable, but we cannot wait to go the ´dam again, sad i know, but true
... the final flight home hasnt been booked yet, so we are hoping to do a day or two stop over through schipol 
just thought id give a country by country review of the smoking we´ve been up to so far, for the sake if it:
indiä: famous for its chalice etc, but we some how didnt come accross any till the very north of india (sikkim) and tbh, its was awfull, just grass full of seeds and weak flavour/high... still, after weeks of nothing it was welcome. i bought an awesome chillum with elephants carved into it, which is waiting at home for me now
nepal: oh my fucking god. awesome smoking. bought some totally organic out door weed that would match any chemical fed hydro from dam, in power. 200 rupees (1 pound 20p) for 1\2 oz, and i was ripped off probably. i got it through the hotel, and the hotel also made it into bhang lassis for us which was a genuine highlight in mashdness, the patterns and sounds i was imagining whilst trying to sleep were awesome.
im not a hash smoker usually but i was in heaven with the nepalese hash. first type i bought in a town called pokhara, was milky coffee colour, and as soft as blue tack when warmed in the palm of your hand. it actually glittered with cristals in the sun when you smeared it on your finger... no exageration, one joint at 4pm, would leave us still giggling at the waiter when we finished our meal at a resturant at 10pm. insanely powerfull.
the second type of hash we bought in kathmandu, wash much darker, and still soft and bendy, but the effect was very mongy, so it was a pre bed time smoke.
also, in thamel, the backpacker and party area of kathmandu, you can smoke joints openly in many bars. hotels throught nepal are completely fine with joint smoking in rooms etc, and cannabis plants are just everywhere. i mean everywhere..... side of roads, goriwng in cracks of petrol station forecourts and everywehere.
thaliand: the paranoia of thai laws stopped us smoking throughout the mainland, but on the islands its a different matter. ko smaui beaches have many delaers selling average outdoor stuff, which we asked to be rolled for us, so that we could go stand out in the sea, and smoke well away from people. not particularly good. but on ko phanagn, we found 3 bars where smoking was completely open, (all with reggae themes not suprisingly ha ha), which sold pre rolled and eight bags. the weed was awesome, outdoor grown but strong highs and nice tastes. seed free too.
laos: fucking awesome. the guy taking us to the border over the mekong river offered us weed and it continued from there. we got ripped off once when a tuk tuk driver sold us tea, but in general, the standard of the weed was fantastic. all outdoor, couple of seeds etc, but strong, tasty and good. vangvieng is a speical place where weed and opium and shrooms are available in the bars, and we got a hefty quarter for 5 pounds. good commercial weed available there, no seeds. in the south of the country, on the 4000 islands, smoking is the local pasttime, so bars and resturants sell it (under the counter) and smoking everywhere is cool.
cambodia: awesome. siem reap is a really cool town and theres plenty of bars that sell happy pizza and bags of weed are easy to get from dealers after 5pm, but its phnom phenn which was the best, they have an area called lake side, which is a seedy alley lined with bars that sell pre rolled joints for 1 US dollar, consistantly good too. and bags were 5US dollars to 15 US but really good sizes and good comerical stuff too. smoking in the bars was cool too, one of them (lost and found bar) had low cushions etc, for a really nice a´dam feel.
vietnam: suprisingly good. in saigon, cigarette sellers cruise the bars offering cigarrettes and spliffs on the sly. pre rolled joints were 3 US dollars, but were pure weed, and were knock out. i got a bag from saigon for 10 US dollars which lasted a couple of weeks. the weed again was outdoor, but good comercial stuff, trimmed and no seeds. in hanoi, in the north i battered a dealer down to a cheap price, but unfortunaly i must have over done it as instead of weed, he handed me opium hidden in a pack of postcards. opium is cheaper than weed.
singapore:
as fucking if.australia: two months in australia, 1 month of it spent in a campsite in nimbin
smoked so so much there, breakfast lunch and dinner was weed weed and weed. nimbin is a fucking cool place, picking up is as easy going ot the pub, and smoking is tollerated, and celebrated in the cafes and campsites attached to the village. the quality ranged drastically though. the dealing is ultimatly illegal and run by dodgy chavs who have different batches and prices on a daily basis. so sometimes you got a good weight, sometimes a crpa weight, sometimes hydor sometimes bush. no hash though which was strange. we also picked our own gold cap mushrooms form a cow field opposite and tripped balls for 2 days. a real highlight.new zealand: a few days of nothing in auckland meant i bought some legal high stuff from a head shop. puff it was called. apparently its thc extract or something. it was ok, got you feeling very stupid, but lacked many of the elements of real stone, and tasted awfull. we were offered some in the south island, but only a few days of our trip left and plenty of the puf stuff, i bizarrly declined, which i was kicking myself for.
chile: nada, nothing, niente! chile really is a suprisingly tame place, and we just never managed to sniff anything out, even in the capital. i did get ripped off once in the north of chile though, the length this guy went to scam me was amazing. he hung around the hostel all daymending a table and bits and bobs, and i mean all day. talking to me and we ended up getting on really well, and then he slipped in the conversation his friend had some weed... OOHHH, first time it was mentioned in the whole country, so another hour later etc. etc. he offered to go get it, but of course he needed the money first to buy it. he even came back an hour later saying he will be 'only one more hour'! and then suprise surpise, never returned to work. oh well.
Argentina: Argentina does have a big smoking culture, as you see weed graffitti often enough eg: "las plantas no pecan" (i think), and there is a magazine called THC on sale everywhere. i smelled it in a few places too, and checking into this hostel yesterday two guys were smoking one on the balcony. however..... the difference in what i smell, and what i presume the locals are smoking is very different to what they sell to tourists. perhaps if i spoke spanish, i could get in with a few people better and would have got some better grade.
the green we got in mendoza was dark and scratchy on the throat. i smoked maybe 5 joints in a row that night, and though i was mashed, if i had 5 asian or 5 ozzy or 5 eurpoean j's in a row i would be on the floor.
the green from iguazu (north east arg.) was actually the worst weed i have ever ever seen! so in a way it wasnt entirely money wasted, as we had a huge laugh at the fact that some one would even bother. it definatly was weed thats the wierd thing, but it must have ben left in a cupboard for 20 years. only a couple of seeds, and sticks, but it tasted like cheap cigars and ripped your throat.
the worrying thinga bout this argentinian weed, is 'pound for pound' and 'value for wastedness', south americas more famous drug actually is a better option!! which is terrible, but i admit even i thougt it better to spend less on the most insalnely good alternative, than spend more on the worst weed ever.
Brazil: nada again, but obviously have to admit, in my week in brazil i was in the wrong places to be offered. only did a few days by iguazu falls, and the rest in the jungle. didnt do rio, didnt do sau paulo etc.
, wicked write up mate and more to come 