INDIA | Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Views [781]
The most noticeable thing about entering India from Nepal was the space. No longer hemmed in by mountains, it was refreshing to feel the vast plains of northern India stretch out for miles into the distance. The journey from Sunauli, at the border, ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Friday, 12 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
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NEPAL | Wednesday, 10 Oct 2007 | Views [756]
So, following the trek I spent a few days in sleepy Pokhara. Very relaxed place on the edge of Phewa Tal (lake). I just couldn't get enough of walking miles everyday so I hiked up to the World Peace Pagoda overlooking the lake, a temple built by some ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Monday, 8 Oct 2007 | Views [1071] | Comments [1]
My trek around the Annapurnas was 16 fabulous days of Himalayan adventure. Well, most of the 16 days were fabulous... Here's a summary. Day 1 KATHMANDU - BESISAHAR - KHUDI Pissing down, I bussed it to Dumre, then bussed it - on the roof! - to Besisahar, ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Saturday, 6 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
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NEPAL | Sunday, 16 Sep 2007 | Views [865]
I'm still in Kathmandu and enjoying myself lots. The only thing I would change about this place is the incessant up-the-arse tooting of every bastard on the road and those hawkers who attach themselves as would a second shadow. Apart from that it's ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Friday, 14 Sep 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Friday, 14 Sep 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Thursday, 13 Sep 2007 | Views [2469]
I've been out of access for most of this epic adventure from Lhasa to the Nepal border. Here's the abridged version. Day 1 An intrepid foursome of Jim the Brummie, Rochelle the Kiwi, Shoen the Japanese girl and myself set off once our guide turned ... Read more >
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CHINA | Tuesday, 4 Sep 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Monday, 3 Sep 2007 | Views [890]
Shangri-La, the Land of Snows, call it what you like Tibet is here and so is every tourist and his dog. Lots of dogs actually. Lhasa is like nowhere else you could imagine. Just hundreds of people walking clockwise around religious edifices such as ... Read more >
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CHINA | Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Views [868]
Somehow managed to wake up at oh-my-god o'clock and get to Xi'an station, board my hard sleeper and sleep reasonably well. The first thing I saw when I woke up were big mountains and drizzle - western China. Spent most of the journey chatting a bizarre ... Read more >
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CHINA | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Views [813]
So here I am waiting until FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING to catch my train to Xining, cash in hand and fingers crossed. I love Xi'an. What a lovely city! Nicely balanced between the insanity of Shanghai and the lifelessness of Beijing (historical ... Read more >
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CHINA | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Views [559]
Why is Tibet such an arse of a place to get to? If it were a genuine attempt by the Chinese to preserve and protect all that is sacred, unique and wonderful about the place it would be fair enough. But given that the Chinese have done their level ... Read more >
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CHINA | Friday, 24 Aug 2007 | Views [422]
I'm beginning to like this city! The main reason possibly being that food is so much easier to get here - there are mountains of places to eat, so much so that pointing at stuff is easy to do when the kanji proves impossible to read...which is most ... Read more >
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CHINA | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 | Views [776]
THIS is the China I've been dying to see! It was definately worth the never-again train ride to don't-go-there Taiyuan. Getting onto the train in Beijing was like trying to push to the front of a rave carrying a rhino. Half-naked, incredibly sweaty ... Read more >
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