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11 March 2010 tagged b&w, beggar, bike, black, cambodia, fence, girl, humans, killing fields, phnom penh, photo, photography, pictures, prostitution, remains, sex, skull, white, woman with no comments
top — skulls from the killing fields
middle — a girl peers through a fence and begs for money
bottom — an old man financially compensates a girl for services rendered
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11 March 2010 tagged airport, armoured personnel carrier, army, baksheesh, book, canal, caretaker, chowkhang gompa, coffee, computer, dal lake, email, fish temple, flight, floating store, french wife, gompa, hill, hindu, horse, hotel, houseboat, india, indian, indian archaeological society, internet cafe, islam, island, kashmir, kashmir valley, ladakh, leh, marijuana, military, mohammad, monastery, money, mosque, mountain, movie, muslim, pahalgan, paulo cohelo, people, photo, photography, photos, picture, riding, runway, school, sledding, snacks, snow, soldiers, srinigar, stars, strike, temple, the zahir, tibetan restaurant, victoria, view, weather with no comments
day 346 — it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking phởtographs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their picture — even though it was snowing and freezing cold. i returned to chowkhang gompa and took some phởtos […]
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged angkor wat, b&w, black, buddhism, buddhist, cambodia, faces, phnom penh, photo, photography, picture, portraits, reflection, ruins, s21, siem reap, torture, tree, water, white with no comments
top — angkor wat reflected in water
middle — the ruins of angkor wat
bottom — the faces of S21
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11 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, airport, altitude, ams, beanie, book, buddhism, buddhist, ceremony, chess, children, chowkhang gompa, cold, dalai lama, email, flight, goa, gompa, heater, hemis gompa, ice hockey, india, internet cafe, jacket, kashmir, kids, korean monastery, ladakh, lama, leh, leh palace, market, monastery, namgyal tsemo gompa, palace, paolo cohelo, photograph, prayer, retread, shay gompa, skating, skating rink, snow, soma gompa, stok gompa, taxi, tea, temple, the zahir, thiksay gompa, thukpa, tibetan market, tour, tyre with no comments
day 341 — i got started early for my flight to leh. at 5am i got a taxi to the airport but had to stop along the way when the taxi shredded a tyre. retreads are very common in india and the quality is, in a word, shit. 10 minutes later we were going again […]
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged angkor wat, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cambodia, carving, face, girl, photo, photography, picture, rock, saffron, siem reap, statue, stone, ta promh, travel, woman with no comments
top — the giant faces of ta promh
middle — locals sitting amongst the ruins
bottom — a buddha, clad in saffron
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8 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, altitude, ams, apple pie, bakery, beer, beggar, cable, coffee, connaught place, delhi, diamox, dinner, flights, house boat, hp service centre, india, internet, kashmir, killing time, ladakh, leh, liverpool game, non-genuine, pakistan, pakistan embassy, pakistan visa, passport, phone, photo, power surge, rooftop bar, srinigar, tickets, underwear, washing with no comments
day 336 — basically, i’m killing time until i get my pakistan visa. i can’t leave delhi without it. so i have been spending my days as lazily as possible, trying not to spend too much money.
i bought some underwear and spent much of the day online. i had dinner at a rooftop bar which was […]
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7 March 2010 tagged angkor wat, b&w, black, blue, buddhism, buddhist, cambodia, costume, face, girl, portrait, reflection, siem reap, sky, stone, ta promh, temple, white with no comments
top — the face of ta promh
middle — angkor wat reflected
bottom — a girl in traditional costume
In rants, travel on
7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
day 331 — australia day — i woke up, had breakfast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few camera stores, checked email and returned to […]
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
3 March 2010 tagged blue, buddhism, buddhist, face, field, flags, girl, gompa, green, himalayas, mountains, nepal, photo, photography, picture, portrait, sky, spring, travel, wheat with no comments
top — a gompa against a blue sky
middle — a young girl poses for the camera
bottom — wheat fields in spring
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3 March 2010 tagged anjuna, anjuna beach, anjuna markets, atm, baksheesh, band, bed bugs, beer, bom jesus, breakfast, bribe, chapel, chapora fort, chess set, church, cigars, coast road, corruption, delhi, diary, elsa, email, fine, france, goa, helmet, hotel, india, licence, live music, movie, mumbai, old goa, panaji, patron saint, police, salvation army hostel, scooter, spain, st christopher, st francis of asissi, sunset, taxi stand, tibetan food, ticket, tourists, train, tshirt, vagator, village, wednesday with no comments
day 326 — i arrived in goa in the morning and headed to the taxi stand to arrange transport to anjuna (the town in goa where i’d decided to stay). at the stand i met a french girl called elsa who’d been on the bunk directly beneath me. we hadn’t spoken on the train, but […]
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2 March 2010 tagged architecture, bells, blue, buddha, buddhist, eyes, face, kathmandu, monkey, nepal, orange, photo, photography, picture, sunset, temple, travel with no comments
top — bells on a rope against the sunset
middle — a gompa in kathmandu
bottom — a monkey surveys his territory
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2 March 2010 tagged 1984, bazaar, bed bugs, beer, breakfast, cafe, caves, christian, commission, complaint, dinner, dormitory, elephant island, entrance fee, ferry, france, goa, grottos, guns, hotel, india, kolkata, laundry, lonely planet, lookout point, manager, mattress, mumbai, ngo, salvation army hostel, scam, shave, sleeping bag, station, street market, taxi, ticket, train, wifi, windows with no comments
day 321 — it was cold on the train and i had difficulty sleeping. without a sleeping bag i had nothing to cover me or protect me from the cold wind that came in through the gap in the windows. the morning was better and i sat in the sun reading my book and looking […]
In cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
2 March 2010 tagged animals, basket, beads, boy, face, hair, himalayas, holy, man, nepal, photo, photography, picture, portrait, travel, working, yaks with no comments
top — a boy practices carrying loads on mountain tracks
middle — a holy man in kathmandu
bottom — yak, yak, yak
In life, travel on
1 March 2010 with no comments
march 1st marks the anniversary of a full year of travel. in the past 12 months i have visited 17 countries, been to 2 weddings and returned home for the first time in 8 years.
i had my ipod stolen, bought a new lens and a new ‘point and shoot’ camera, met hundreds of interesting people and […]
In australia, buddhism, travel on
28 February 2010 tagged 1984, airport, apple, around the world in 80 days, australia, beef masala, beer, bookshop, breakfast, buddhist, burma, business class, cold shower, corn, dharma, dinner, dorm, email, flight, fudge, gaya, george orwell, hotel, hotel maria, india, jules verne, kimchi bokeumbab, kolkata, korea, koreans, loud speaker, market, money, mosque, mumbai, myanmar, package, sleeping bag, street stall, taxi, the bastard of istanbul, train, vip, yangon with no comments
day 316 — i had breakfast and talked to dave for a while, then started my new book ‘the bastard of istanbul’. the book annoyed me (focusing on how much armenians hate turks and visa versa) and i refused to read more. i’m sure the book has a happy ending and they all grow to […]