INDIA | Sunday, 10 Sep 2006 | Views [677] | Comments [1]
We managed to wake up at 4:30 am to hike up to Savitri Devi with Gita and her family like we promised. It was a drizzly morning and we headed out through the town, mud and cow dung oozing beneath our sandals and getting between our toes. It was a caravan ... Read more >
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INDIA | Friday, 28 Jul 2006 | Views [881] | Comments [2]
I turned 28 in Mussoorie, a decaying raj-era himalayan hillstation. The first thing I saw after awakening that day was a giant long-legged spider who had been living web-wise behind our hotel's heavy emerald curtains. It's auspicious, I'm told. Certainly ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 2 May 2006 | Views [564]
After bus mix-ups and the dreaded 10 hour sleeper bus from Kunming, we are now settled in at a hotel with a view in Sapa, a hillside resort town 35 km from the Chinese/Vietnamese border. For $5 a night we have a gorgeous view of a valley of rice paddies ... Read more >
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CHINA | Friday, 28 Apr 2006 | Views [994]
After several days of deliberation and heavy thinking, we decided to pull up our socks, put down our tea and go mountain climbing. An old folk tale tells of how a tiger once escaped becoming a chinese virility salve by jumping across the narrow gorge, ... Read more >
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