HONG KONG | Sunday, 22 Jul 2007 | Views [244]
How British will Hong Kong be, was a question I mused over as I made my way down from Shanghai and the first signs were encouraging. Despite the usual bullshit involved in crossing an international frontier the immigration officers actually smiled, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CHINA | Thursday, 12 Jul 2007 | Views [224]
After a brief visit to Xi'an we were preparing to get back on the road. The plan was to head to Shanghai, however, we made the fatal mistake of leaving the train booking to the last minute. The next available train wouldn't be leaving for three days:... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
CHINA | Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [244]
After forty five hours on the Hanoi - Beijing express, which wasn't much of an express considering we had to change trains and disembark in Nanning for two hours, arrived in Beijing. I was glad to be getting off having spent the previous night in the ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 27 Jun 2007 | Views [268]
Arriving in Vietnam I immediately noticed that the grass was greener on the Vietnamese side of the border. Well actually it wasn’t greener as the Cambodian side of the border was actually a barren wasteland. I hoped that Vietnam would live up ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 | Views [257]
Since the inception of this trip I had wanted to travel overland as much as possible and really see the countries through which I was traveling while trying to do my bit for the environment. Clearly the second half of that statement is bollocks as ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
LAOS | Sunday, 10 Jun 2007 | Views [406] | Comments [1]
It is almost two weeks now since I crossed the Laos Thai border in the far north and began my journey south, through the valley of the Mekong. In this time I have discovered what a fantasticly lazy place Laos is. The people here are great, the ... Read more >
Tags: People
LAOS | Sunday, 3 Jun 2007 | Views [243]
It was time for a detour. For most of the last three months we had been following a fairly rigid plan which we had predetermined before leaving home. A change and some adventure was in order, to this end we booked onto the slow boat to Luang Prabang ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
THAILAND | Monday, 28 May 2007 | Views [279]
I had enrolled myself on a three day trek through the forested hills in the Chiang Dao area of northern Thailand . Over the course of the next three days I would have the pleasure of trekking over 20km in 35 degree heat with small breaks to swim, ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
THAILAND | Saturday, 19 May 2007 | Views [429] | Comments [1]
So Bangkok or Krung Thep as the Thai's call it. This translation however misses out fourteen other words which make up its full Thai name, yet intact it still doesn't give much of a description of what is to be found there! Roughly translated Krung ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
THAILAND | Friday, 11 May 2007 | Views [299] | Comments [1]
Before leaving Malaysia I had read that Thailand was the land of smiles and this is certainly true. Everyone smiles here. Even the immigration officer, who had kept me in line for over an hour and a half, smiled as he meticulously checked through my ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
MALAYSIA | Wednesday, 2 May 2007 | Views [340] | Comments [1]
After sixteen hours we were finally in Singapore, India seemed but a distant memory. As we stepped out onto the city streets it was a different world: No noise, just the gentle hum of flashy BMWs and Mercedes cruising the streets. No smells, besides ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
INDIA | Saturday, 21 Apr 2007 | Views [280] | Comments [1]
Six weeks and three days and we are heading out of India : the last ten of those days have been mostly uneventful! Having arrived in Goa last Wednesday at the back of a two-day train ride I was exhausted. Indulging in my first steak dinner of the ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
INDIA | Thursday, 12 Apr 2007 | Views [231]
Gagging to transplant the dusty, urban heat of northern India for the tropical heat of Goa we sheltered in the air conditioned comfort of the first class lounge, awaiting the arrival of the 32 hour-long Golden Temple Mail to Mumbai. At around 8PM ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
INDIA | Monday, 9 Apr 2007 | Views [249]
Coming down from the mountains was a big shock. After two weeks of basking in temperatures around the low to mid 20s, reminiscent of summer back home, we had arrived in the dusty, dirty Amritsar where temperatures hover in the mid 30s! Within ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
INDIA | Thursday, 5 Apr 2007 | Views [296]
Awoke with a jolt, I slammed my knees into the seat in front of me. This meritting a stare that could have frozen hell from the woman in the seat. Having spent the last five hours attempting to negotiate sleeping and preventing myself and belongings ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
INDIA | Friday, 30 Mar 2007 | Views [340] | Comments [1]
Finally we were setting off on our trek to the Solang Valley. We had been assured there would be snow in the valley, the scenery was stunning and crucially it was an easy walk. Since arriving in Manali three days ago off the back of a rickety ... Read more >
Tags: Lost!
INDIA | Saturday, 24 Mar 2007 | Views [680] | Comments [2]
‘Quick, out of the way, let me get that shot’ or variations on that was all I would hear for five and a half hours after taking up my tiny seat on the Himalayan Queen. We had spent the best part of the morning travelling through northern India ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
INDIA | Tuesday, 20 Mar 2007 | Views [272] | Comments [1]
Can you get meat withdrawal and thus crave it? I’m not sure, but I certainly felt like you could. After almost two weeks of eating nothing but various pulses, cheeses and vegetables in curried sauces I wanted some plain and simple meat and two ... Read more >
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INDIA | Sunday, 18 Mar 2007 | Views [320] | Comments [1]
The first chords of Country Girl rang out from Marks mobile and ushered in a new day in Varanasi . It was 5:30AM and we had woke early to catch the sunrise over the Ganges and were not to be disappointed. At around 6AM the sun rose and filled ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
INDIA | Thursday, 15 Mar 2007 | Views [304] | Comments [1]
Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, 1.5 million people and 1700 factories, boy does it show. The streets are littered with rubbish and a thick, acrid stench that could make a murderer cry, hangs in the air. Renowned throughout India for it's corrupt politicans, ... Read more >
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