Tag: backpacking

  • Shit, Lust and a Million Miles of Mirror… Burmese Days – Part Three

    Day 17 Asleep at eight and awake at five, ready and waiting for the sun to rise. I feel totally elated by what i have captured with my camera.Over fifty truly beautiful shots, the black & white almost making me high. Strolling long paths in hundreds of meters of water, full of lotus pink and sprouting up all around. Pagodas…

  • Burmese Days – Part Two

    Day 11 After getting drunk yesterday i paid for it today. Vomiting my spicy noodle soup mixed with pseudo Fanta five minutes after breakfast. Noodles still hanging from my throat whilst others were leaving. What a waste of a dollar. Walking through beautiful countryside, through fields along the river bank, towards the hot springs amongst the hills. Women bathing in the water, washing clothes, foraging…

  • Burmese Days – Part One

    Day 1 So i arrive in Yangon after a three-hour flight from KL. Burma is finally here or rather i am. The first visual to hit me is that it is not dis-similar to India. After finding a guest house the next search was for vegetarian food. Checking out street stalls, trying to ask, being pointed to…

  • Backpacking Is Never Going To Win Me A Style Award

    KL LCCT Airport – 3/11/2011. So i am about to migrate out of Malaysia for the day. I have had a Zantac and feel rather floaty, rather tired, like i want to sleep – never a possibility on an upright metal airport chair. Kuala Lumpur was fine. Amazing food, friendly people and an impressive public…

  • Three Days In Malaysia- Penang to Langkawi

  • Koh Tao,Thailand – No Words Needed

  • Broken Day

    Little rhythmical bells and chimes twinkling in my ears. Tears hide in the back of my eyes, chugging down the track from Bangkok. Fields of cotton swaying in the breeze from side to side; or is that just me? palms stretching through the bright blue sky – sunbound. Green so vividly green it’s almost yellow.…

  • Is Roller Skating a Meditation?

    Is Roller Skating a Meditation?

    You can’t relax with it, i can’t relax without it. Where do we fit without fear? Inhale – Exhale – Exhale Inhale. Nothing everything. Internal external. Dread panic nothing. Pre Earthquake….. Mogal Shari station was hell; only because of the amount of time we spent there due to miss information from our previous hoast. Sitting…

  • Budgies, Beans and Buddha…… and a Thank You From My Liver!

    Budgies, Beans and Buddha…… and a Thank You From My Liver!

    Leaving Varanasi was bitter-sweet. Far to hectic for now. We traveled to Sarnath, 7 kilometers out of the city looking for space, and space we found. Parks, temples and a wonderful Jain family to play host. Buddha came to Sarnath to preach his message of the middle way to nirvana after achieving enlightenment in Bodhgaya.…

  • Surviving the Sikkim Earthquake

    I have not brushed my teeth for three days, but why would i when i am in the middle of an earthquake? The journey from Darjeeling took an un-expected turn. Not so un-expected if you have read previous posts. The jeep started shaking but on reflection it was not the jeep but the earth, the…

  • You Want Boat or Goat? – A Ride Down The Ganges

  • Mumbai to Varanasi – Over and Out!

    Today i would have been inducting my new groups of students, but instead i am traveling north from Mumbai to Varanasi. Boarding the Mahanagari express at Mumbai CST was dare i say a pleasure. Traveling in 2AC is very much the way forward. Yes its more expensive than the cheapest option but the contrast in…