INDIA | Friday, 31 Jul 2009 | Views [4318]
Udaipur is a picturesque city set on a lake where a large part of Octopussy, the James Bond movie, was filmed. I had booked rooms in the Udai Niwas hotel right beside the main temple, in the middle of the old town. Even from the rickshaw ride into town ... Read more >
Tags: history, lake, lesson, music, religion, sun
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 1 Jan 2009 | Views [1100]
The night journey across the continent towards Esquel was pleasant enough, although I thought I had left a bag containing all my gadgets behind. A man got on selling hand-made wooden rosary beads which I bought as a sort of superstitious insurance ... Read more >
Tags: fireworks, lake, mountain, party, trekking
BOLIVIA | Sunday, 2 Nov 2008 | Views [2561] | Comments [1]
It was nice to be able to get the second of I don't know how many country stamps in our passports as we walked across the Bolivian border. We had heard rumours of dodgy border police taking your cash saying its fake so we had money in socks and concealed ... Read more >
Tags: balaclava, la paz, lake, zebra
