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1 May 2010 tagged baksheesh, bill clinton, breakfast, bus, china, chinese girl, christina, city, cleric, dal lake, dharamsala, driver, email, fighting, girl, hill, hindu, hindu temple, hotel, houseboat, india, jammu, jeep, kashmir, korea, laundry, lazy, mcleod ganj, moghul gardens, mohammad, mosque, movie, pants, photo, poem, shop, socks, soldiers, srinigar, st valentines day, tea, tour, un compound, war with no comments
day 351 – st valentine’s day – i had breakfast and spent the morning writing a st valentine’s day poem for christina. i edited a photo and put the poem on it. then i went out with mohammad on a tour of srinigar city. we spent the day looking at mosques, the moghul gardens (which [...]
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day 346 – it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking photographs 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 photos [...]
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16 December 2009 tagged beer, beheaded, blanket, borobodur, breakfast, buddhism, buddhist, chess, coffee, couchsurfing, drunk, fighting, gay, hindu, indonesia, jakarta, java, jogjakarta, lookout point, massage, mosquitoes, noodles, phone card, pool, prambanan, queers, redevelopment, sick, statue, stomachache, swim, temple, tour, train, train ticket, travel, tuk tuk, wifi, yulia with no comments
day 271 – the trip to borobodur required a 4am start. there were only three of us on the tour and when the car picked me up we headed straight off. after an hour we arrived at the ‘lookout point’ which was where we were supposed to watch the sunrise. we walked up a steep [...]
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16 December 2009 tagged active volcano, bali, beer, bemo, borobodur, bromo, buddhist, buffet breakfast, camera, cemero lawang, competition, dancing, dinner, drinking, expats, ferry, fight, finals, gilimanuk, hindu, homestay, hotels, indonesia, indonesian tourists, island, java, jogjakarta, laundry, lookout point, lunch, medewi, party, photography, photos, police station, polish, prambanan, presentation, probolinggo, scuffling, singing, sulphur, sunburned, sunrise, sunset, surabaya, surfing, temple, travel, travel stories, travelers, trishaw, volcanoes, walk with no comments
day 266 – the previous day i’d seen some signs advertising the ‘medewi surf comp’ which was a local event organised by a few expats. the whole idea was to promote surfing and improve the medewi community. after breakfast, i found the organisers and offered to photograph the day for them. they jumped at the [...]
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5 April 2009 tagged author, awakening the sleeping buddha, bangladesh, beer, booking, breakfast, buddhism, buddhist, bureaucracy, bus, camera shop, credit card, customer, darjeeling, diary, email, embassy, european, fancy market, germany, ghoom, girl, girls, gray market, haircut, hindu, holy cow, hooker, hotel, hotel maria, india, interview, ipod case, ipod touch, jaan bazaar, jens, kimchi bokeumbab, kolkata, lonely planet, marching, mosquito net, mp3, muslim, myanmar, new market, observatory hill, passport, people, pimp, poland, polariser, pray, prostitute, protest, receipt, roman, rush hour, sandals, sarah macdonald, share jeep, shave, shirts, shower, siliguri, socks, sudder street, sylwia, taxi driver, tea, temples, traffic, train, transaction, traveler's cheque, twelfth tai situpa, visa, whiskey with no comments
day 22 – today i made another early start and walked up to observatory hill again. this time i went to a different part of the hill and took photographs around the hindu temples. it was quite foggy but lots of people were there to pray and make offerings for good fortune. after walking back [...]