Trip: Asia
There are [44] stories from my trip: Asia
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Thursday, 9 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
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HONG KONG | Sunday, 22 Jul 2007 | Views [1019]
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
HONG KONG | Thursday, 19 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Thursday, 12 Jul 2007 | Views [785]
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 | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [811]
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 [831]
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
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CAMBODIA | Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CAMBODIA | Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 | Views [1032]
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 | Tuesday, 12 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
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LAOS | Sunday, 10 Jun 2007 | Views [1318] | 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 [1058]
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
LAOS | Sunday, 3 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Monday, 28 May 2007 | Views [1148]
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 | Monday, 28 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Saturday, 19 May 2007 | Views [1139] | 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 | Thursday, 17 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Friday, 11 May 2007 | Views [1118] | 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
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