Posts Tagged ‘internet cafe’
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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 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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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 [...]
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4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 – we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with [...]
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5 June 2009 tagged aung san, aung san suu kyi, australian embassy, beer, bell, breakfast, british, british council, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burman, burmese days, burrito, camera, chank htatt kye pagoda, coke, diamond, flight, foreigner, hammock, hot, hotel, internet cafe, irrawaddy river, jobs, kids, kinpun, library, lonely planet, monk, museum, music, myanmar, pagoda, reclining buddha, restaurant, secretary, shinya, shower, shwedagon pagoda, slums, station, statue, sunset, ticket, train, water, yangon with no comments
day 56 – i woke up early and shinya and i walked down to the restaurant for breakfast. i went back to the room, packed my shit, said goodbye to shinya, and got a pickup to the train station. i had to wait for nearly an hour for the train, so i spent that time messing about [...]
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2 May 2009 tagged alphabet, bago, bicycle, book, bookstore, breakfast, bribery, bureaucracy, burma, burmese days, bus, camp, canada, cheese, chocolate, dictionary, diseases, email, english, eucalyptus oil, europe, geography, george orwell, gnocci, hill, inle lake, internet cafe, job, juan, letters, longyi, malaysia, massage, mint, mojito, money, myanmar, naung shwe, numbers, passport, photos, pizza, poster, restaurant, school, shinya, shower, shwe lin pan pagoda, sonia, students, switzerland, teacher, thailand, traditional, virgin, world map, writing, yangon with no comments
day 51 (anzac day) – i got up early and had breakfast. i’d made a promise with sonia and juan to go bicycle riding with them. shinya wasn’t coming with us, he’d decided to spend the day hiking in the hills. we did a circuit around the north of naung shwe, including the small lake, [...]
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21 March 2009 tagged amitav ghosh, battery, beads, bhodi tree, bodhgaya, book, boulevard, bracelet, british empire, burma, cobra, darjeeling, dinner, exile, fish, hotel, illustratoins, india, internet cafe, king, lake, leaves, lecture, mahabhodi temple, mandalay, meditation, monastery, monk, myanmar, oliver, passengers, patna, photos, pilgrims, queue, reserved, restaurant, rickshaw, sandalwood, shortcut, silhouette, souvenirs, statues, stupa, teak, teak bridge, the glass palace, ticket, tourists, train, ubein bridge, video, video camera with 1 comment
i have 4 hours to kill before my train to darjeeling, so i found an internet cafe and a nice restaurant in the smally shitty city of patna. i plan on sitting here until my train departs for the 11 hour trek to india’s north east border. day 13 (continued) – i ran into oliver [...]