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Astonishing Time Lapse Film of Laos

By on May 8, 2012 in Stray Asia

Joerg Daiber from Spoonfilm has created this amazing tilt-shift time-lapse movie featuring some beautiful scenery and daily life in Laos. Shot in Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Kuang Si Falls, Nong Kiao, Luang Namtha, Phonsavan and Houayxay. Visit these locations with Stray Asia.

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Learning to Fish the Laos Way at Nong Khiaw

Learning to Fish the Laos Way at Nong Khiaw

By on April 30, 2012 in Stray Asia

About 2 weeks ago I did a trip to Nong Khiaw, a small town by the Nam Ou river in beautiful Laos. We did an awesome day trip The fun times in the water made us very hungry so we had to organize ourselves some lunch. As we were in a tiny village without a [...]

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A Caving Adventure at Waitomo

A Caving Adventure at Waitomo

By on April 30, 2012 in Stray New Zealand

It is inevitable, if you work in the Adventure Tourism Industry that the annual team building exercise is going to be on the extreme side of adventure. With this of course comes fear-facing challenges, so it was of no surprise to the team at Stray and Spaceships when we were invited to Waitomo Caves to [...]

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How to get to Piha, and why?

By on March 20, 2012 in Chucky's Stuff

It’s another wild windy wet January morning in Auckland, New Zealand. A Thursday to be exact. Yet my bus is full. 23 energetic fun backpackers have jumped on board my bus to travel out to a real gem of Auckland. The area is called Waitakere Regional Park, and is translated in Maori to ‘deep cascading [...]

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What to do in Auckland? 5 must do’s, and how to do them.

By on March 20, 2012 in Chucky's Stuff

As the Stray Day Tour guide in Auckland I am constantly asked “what would you recommend to do in Auckland?”. After living in this city for the last 18 years I have come up with 5 easy activities to make your time in Auckland that much better……. 1) Go up the Sky Tower. It’s very [...]

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Buses in Laos – Stray’s new buses – the best for the job

By on March 19, 2012 in Neil's Stuff

You need the right vehicles to get further off the beaten track. I have had a great day. I’m in Vientiane – it’s at least 40 degrees. I have spent the day wandering around truck yards and steel workers. When we started in Laos we bought brand new vehicles – 24 seater mini coaches. They [...]

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Things to do from Chiangmai – muay Thai boxing

By on March 18, 2012 in Neil's Stuff

I’m traveling around the stray Asia route for the three weeks with Holly our local GM. We are on a mission to find great ‘local’ activities which travelers may want to break their journey to do – taking advantage of the flexibility of stray passes. Yesterday we found a gem. Traditional Thai boxing in a [...]

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10 Years of Stray

10 Years of Stray

By on February 29, 2012 in Stray Asia

Stray Asia is cool because we attract the best people, on and off the bus. We recently celebrated 10 years of Stray, and its pretty amazing that we have grown from Gordonton to Beach Road, Penrose, Fort Street, Sydney, Luang Prabang, Bangkok and the UK. I took this photo of 2 of the amazing people [...]

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Passing of a Bus Legend

Passing of a Bus Legend

By on February 28, 2012 in News

We’ve had a very sad few weeks in Orangeland, with the passing of an influential person in the history of Stray, Spaceships and really New Zealand tourism in general (Moa Trek, Contiki NZ, Leslie Coaches, Kiwi Experience..)  Neil’s father Leon Geddes, passed away on February 13th after working in the ‘Bus Garage’- the home to [...]

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Mojosurf – summer 2011/12 has been epic!

Mojosurf – summer 2011/12 has been epic!

By on February 28, 2012 in Mojosurf

Mojosurf NZ has been pumping this summer with busloads of frothing passengers heading down to our awesome surf camps at Raglan and Opoutere (Coromandel). Our Opoutere surf camp consists of an old house built in 1908, towed to the area by bullocks long before Neil was a boy. The white sand beaches of the Coromandal [...]

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