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Round the World: Bad boy
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. Sunset on the Mekong, Ventiane. The Ban Anou night market in Ventiane. VENTIANE, Laos - We're five hours late by the time the overnight train from Bangkok pulls up to the Lao People's Democratic Republic border. There were many unexplained stops in the middle of rice paddies and at one stage we actually went backwards for 15 minutes. I look at the non-existent watch on my wrist and back at him in astonishment. 'Today? Yeah, sure.'. After my shocking victory, I treat myself to dinne...
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Round the World: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The yak and the yeti part II: notes from the Annapurna Circuit. NOTE: Missing a couple photos because of technical issues, but will add soon. TREK DIARY DAY 4: Sickness (Dharapani to Chame, 6270 ft to 8943 ft). DHARAPANI - A brutal but beautiful climb gets the day started right, with a virtual staircase spiraling 1500 feet up, clinging precariously to cliff-sides, winding through forests and spitting us out into an alpine mosaic of pine trees and horse-filled pastures. CHAME - A...
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Round the World: May 2011
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Saturday, May 28, 2011. Cape Town's Bo-Kaap neighborhood, a mostly Muslim ('Cape Malay') neighborhood with distintive architecture. A former prisoner at Robben Island talks about his years there. Max McBride, former youth activist with the ANC during the bad old days. Little brother was getting drunk while awaiting the start of a comedy show, but he wasn’t kidding. All of the comics at the show that night interspersed stories of crime into their acts. The country’s cities are littered with billboar...
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Round the World: Death of a bus
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Thursday, July 21, 2011. Death of a bus. Pork buns, breakfast of champions. Bus with a view. If we bang on it long enough, it will all magically work out. LUANG PRABANG, Laos - If you're in a rush traveling through Laos, chances are your head is about to explode. There's also a good chance your bus engine will follow suit. Finally, they declared the bus dead and another one came to rescue us, taking us the rest of the way to the sleepy, colonial town of Luang Prabang without further incident. The yak and...
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Round the World: River of slow return
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011. River of slow return. EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm way late on this blog and I've been busy readjusting to the States and, frankly, being lazy the past couple weeks. I've got some actual writing in the works to wrap things up on this blog but, in the meantime, here are some pretty pictures. Looks sturdy, right? What could possibly go wrong? Don't worry, he's not jumping onto a rock - there's water on the other side. The genius of Lao engineering, Nong Kiaw. River of slow return.
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Walkabout Time: Cambodia - Dirt bikes and landmines
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Cambodia - Dirt bikes and landmines. The day after Stephanie gave me the dirtbike idea I cycled over to Hidden Cambodia. She pointed us to a food place - food sounds a bit like nyum if I heard right, very appropriate! And with full bellies it was time to sleep by 9pm. We were up by six and after a breakfast of rice, motored over to the Koh Ker ruins. The place was littered with signs every kilometre advising us that we were passing through cleared minefields! Coast to coast in SA.
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Walkabout Time: May 2011
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Sunday, May 29, 2011. Holiday in Cambodia - Angkor Wat. At which point I would alert them to the fact I have a bicycle. They normally follow that by asking if I want 'boomboom' and when that fails the next offers follow swiftly, advising that they can get. It would all be quite amusing if it wasn't for the fact that this is repeated about every twenty metres in the evening! Time for some motorised fun again (Man I miss the Fireblade). Saturday, May 14, 2011. Having done no research on Thailand and leavin...
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Walkabout Time: Malaria and cargo boats
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Malaria and cargo boats. The story of how I got to Uganda and discovered the real Malaria! Every bump was acutely felt in my back and neck and together with my feeling cold resulted in the sulk of all sulks on the last few hours of that run. Eventually we arrived at Arusha where I forked out the extra for a normal taxi cab and was taken to a very nice place called Maasai camp. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Helpful sites for travel. Coast to coast in SA. Get Your Own Map.
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Walkabout Time: Uganda - Gorillas and waterfalls!
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Thursday, January 27, 2011. Uganda - Gorillas and waterfalls! Once in Uganda I settled down just outside Kampala in a hostel called Red Chilli Hideaway. It was time to start work on getting my gorilla tracking permit. I headed to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and began checking things out - luckily I was being careful as the first date they tried to give me a permit for, the only accomodation in the area was a massive $60 per night! 29 January, 2011 23:46. 30 January, 2011 19:23. I am running out o...
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Walkabout Time: Return to Thailand: Ko Tao
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Monday, June 13, 2011. Return to Thailand: Ko Tao. On arrival in Bangkok I headed straight down to Chumpon on the overnight bus - mission: Rescue diver course. I arrived tired after a sleepless ride at around 4am and managed to get on a link bus to the pier at six in the morning. By around eight I was on a small ferry and heading to Ko Tao with the sun blazing and the sea calm and blue - time for a nap on deck! No sooner had I drifted off than I had my first nice surprise! Emboldened by their apparent fe...