Posts Tagged ‘lonely planet’
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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 […]
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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 […]
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3 February 2010 tagged air india, book, burma, chess, coffee, craig, cycle rickshaw, email, hammock, hotel, indian embassy, kolkata, lonely planet, mandalay, markets, moustache brothers, myanmar, passport, tattoo, tourist, train ticket, travel, visa, yangon, yangon united fc with no comments
day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had breakfast and drank a coffee at an outdoor café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the afternoon, had dinner and slept.
day 312 — my morning routine had settled into breakfast and coffee. the small café had a […]
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25 December 2009 tagged airport, beer, beggar, boardwalk, book, breafkast, buddhism, buddhist, burmese, bus, canada, chatting, chess, christina, coffee, dinner, drunk, email, event, flea market, flight, foreigners, fourfourtwo, guesthouse, hangover, internet, junk, kl central, korea, kota kinabalu, kuala lumpur, lonely planet, long bar, long island ice tea, lunch, magazines, malaysia, margarita, market, mcdonalds, muffin, photography, photography book store, photos, portrait, post, raffle's hotel, razamataz, sabah, singapore, sreet market, starbucks, steve mccurry, street cafe, temple, ticket, tourist, train, travel, travel agents, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 291 — i got another early start and headed to kl central station. i bought a flight to kota kinabalu and a return train ticket to singapore. it was a busy morning, so i raced back to my hotel and checked out. i stored my bag and returned to the train station to make […]
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16 December 2009 tagged air north, australia, bali, beach, beer, bemo, blackout, cafe, chess, chicken satay, coffee, darwin, delay, denpasar, dorms, drinking, flight, homestay, hotel, immigration, jetstar, kakadu trek, kennis, kuta, lonely planet, medewi, minibus, negara, nightmare, passengers, photography, room mate, singapore, sleep, surf town, surfers, swim, taxi, tickets, travel, wifi, yelling, yha, yobos with no comments
day 261 — today was my last day in australia. i packed and checked out of my room. i had a coffee in town and met kennis for lunch. she’d just returned from a kakadu trek, which she said was fantastic. we had chinese for lunch and spent the afternoon together. we chatted until my […]
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3 July 2009 tagged american troops, annika, backpacker, band, beer, bike, blind, border, breakfast, buddhism, bullet, cambodia, cao dai great temple, ceremony, china, church, city hall, coffee, confucianism, cu chi tunnels, cult, dinner, embassy, eva, german girls, handicapped workshop, hawkers, helmet, hindu temple, ho chi minh city, incense, lightning, lonely planet, massage, minsk, motorbike, motorcycle, music, north vietnam, notre dame, opera house, palace, practice, prayer, rain, rifles, riverfront, saigon, scam, souvenir, spectacle, storm, tanks, taoism, taxi, temple, thunder, tour, traffic, tunnel tour, tunnels, underground, vendors, viet cong, vietnam, vietnam war, weather, wifi with 1 comment
day 121 — my room had wifi, so i did some stuff online, including chatting with friends. i had breakfast and wandered down to have another crack at finding a bike. i spoke to a motorbike taxi guy and he spoke really good english. when i told him what i wanted, he pointed straight at […]
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28 June 2009 tagged 104 street, administrator, angkor wat, annika, bar, bbc, beer, bicycle, blog, book, book store, border, breakfast, bus, cambodia, casinos, chess, classrooms, club, detention centre, driver, elephant bar, embassy, eva, fcc building, foreigners, gardens, girlfriends, half yard glass, ho chi minh city, hostels, hostesses, hotel, immigration, kfc, khmer rouge, kids, killing fields, lonely planet, mattress, mekong delta, michael jackson, minsk, money, motorcycle, multi-entry, news, one zero four, palace, passport, phnom penh, photos, pontoon, potato and gravy, prisoners, rugby, s21, school, shallow graves, sharkys, shoestring asia, siem reap, singing, taxi, teacher, torture, tourists, tuk tuk, victims, vietnam, visa, wallabies, wifi with 2 comments
day 116 — i met the german girls (eva and annika) for breakfast. they were catching the early bus to phnom penh. i said goodbye and we made arrangements to meet in phnom penh later that night, since i was catching the bus at 1pm.
i rented a bicycle and rode out to angkor wat again. the […]
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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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27 April 2009 tagged amarapura, audiobook, aung san suu kyi, ayerawaddi, bagaya kyaung, barefot, beer, bicycle, boat, brechtian, british couple, buddha, buddhist, burma, crowd, curry, emails, ferry, government, hot, hsinbyume paya, humour, ice cream, imprisonment, inle lake, inwa, ipod, liverpool, lonely planet, mandalay, mandalay hill, mingun, mingun paya, mini petra, monastery, money, monk, monywa, moustache brothers, myanmar, nanmyin watchtower, ox cart, pagoda, palace, photography, political, political prisoners, polygamy, prison, rain, rickshaw, river, sagaing, sagaing hill, sandamani paya, satire, shinya, shwe kyet kya pagoda, souvenirs, statues, tattoos, tea, teak, temple, thai girls, tilawka guru, touts, tripitaka, troupe, truck, ubein bridge with no comments
day 41 — today was an early start, as we were catching the ferry to a small town across the ayerawaddi river. the town is mingun and has a few interesting temples. one of the temples is on the cover of the myanmar lonely planet. shinya had got no sleep and was tired from his […]
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10 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, audiobooks, australia, baht, bangkok, bangladesh, bbc, blackout, book, border, breakfast, buffet, cab, cafe, chang mai, check in, commission, cook, couchsurfing, currency, dollars, dynamite, electricity, email, embassy, emerald buddha, exchange, exit visa, flight, forms, funny, guest, hotel, immigration, india, ingredients, ipod, jihad, kassandra, khao san road, kolkata, linen, lonely planet, mcdonalds, mr jihad, mr men, muslim, myanmar, officials, pants, passport, plane, receipt, reclining buddha, ryan, sandwich, sheraton, shoestring, shopping, south east asia, spaghetti, stamp, subway, sudoku, taka, teacher, temple, thailand, thunderstorm, titanium, tshirt, visa, wat pho, wat phra kaew, wifi, yangon with no comments
day 30 (continued) — instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make […]
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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 phởtographs 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 […]
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27 March 2009 tagged bar, beer, bhutia busty gompa, blackout, bombay belly, book, book of the dead, buddha, buddhist, cafe, candle, carlsberg, choling, chowkrasta, computer, dalai lama, darjeeling, dhirdham mardin, druk sangak choling monastery, durpin gompa, educational, email, ghoom, hindu temple, hotel, india, irish, jeep, kalimpong, kip, kolkata, landscape, liverpool, london, lonely planet, lunch, mantra, markets, medicine, memories, monastery, monk, mountain, observatory hill, om many padme hum, philosophy, photo, pizza, rain, red lion, ring, sakya choling monastery, samten choling monastery, script, sella, shared jep, shop, sick, sleep, station, steps, stomach bug, taxi, tea, teach, thailand, thunderstorm, tibet, tibetan, toy train, train, train ticket, travelers diahorrea, trek, views, virus, walk, water, weather, yiga choling monastery with 2 comments
i can’t believe i’ve been in india for 3 weeks … despite everything, time is going so quickly.
day 18 — in the morning i got a taxi up to durpin gompa. it’s the biggest gompa in kalimpong and the views are sensational. unfortunately, the entire darjeeling district has been quite hazy for the past few […]
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19 March 2009 tagged agra, assi ghat, audiobook, bathe, beer, bhutanese monastery, bihar, boat ride, bodhgaya, bodhi tree, book, breakfast, british girl, briyani, buddha, buddhism, burning ghat, cheater, chinese girl, chinese monastery, cremated, crowded, cycle rickshaw, darjeeling, dasaswamedh gat, dawn, dead body, deer park, dhanekh stupa, die, dinner, disciples, enlightened, fight, first sermon, french girl, french guy, ganges river, gaya, germans, ghats, guitar, hindus, holy site, hot water, ipod touch, japanese monastery, korean temple, lonely planet, lost, lunch, manikarnika, map, meditate, meer ghat, midnight, mosquitoes, mp3 player, mulgandha kuti vihar, munshi ghat, music, nepali temple, nets, nirvana, oscar, paranoid, party, photos, pray, rant, rickshaw, rooftop restaurant, sarnath, skeleton, skull, special lassi, spicy, stupa, temples, tent cafe, thai monastery, tibetan dinner, tibetan monastery, ticket, train, wash clothes with 1 comment
day 10 — i didn’t wake up early as i had promised myself. i missed the dawn boat ride along the ghats. instead i walked along the ghats for nearly a kilometer. the main ghats are manikarnika (burning) ghat, meer ghat, dasaswamedh ghat (the most popular) and munshi ghat. i didn’t get all the way […]
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16 March 2009 tagged agra, agra fort, baby taj, bagh, baptism of fire, begging, bombs, british, burning ghat, chai, cliche, coffee, cultural tour, curry, danish, darjeeling limited, dead bodies, defense, diary, donation, door, email, experiences, farm, food, foreigners, francis, ganges river, gateway, german, ghat, guide, hotel, incredible india, independence, india, italian, janpath market, kevin, kiwi, laughing, laundry, liverpool, locker, lonely planet, lucknow, marijuana, matilda, moon garden, mumbai, mutineers, naive, neil, nirvana, overpriced, pack, rant, relax, residency, right of passage, ring, ripoffs, rooftop, rort, ruins, sahara ganj, scammed, shopping, shops, siege, sikandar, taj mahal, tickets, tour, toys, train station, varanasi, walls, water with no comments
day 6 — my ‘tour of agra’ turned out to be another overpriced rort. while i did go to the taj mahal, baby taj and the agra fort, the guide wanted to do a “cultural tour” which would have certainly involved going to all of his friend’s shops. we went to the moon garden, previously […]
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9 March 2009 tagged agency, agra, airport, australia, bags, bangkok, beer, belt, boarding, business class, cheap hotel, check in, coffee, counter, cricket, delhi, driver, drivers, flight, gates, ghandi, guidebook, hotels, india, japan, jetlag, kawi, korean, krishna, lonely planet, lounge, lunch, mahatma, mathura, monday, mosque, new zealand, pickup, red fort, reservation, rickshaw, security, soap, south africa, stores, sunday, taxi, ticket, toilet paper, tourism, tourist, tout, towel, train station with 3 comments
day 1 — saturday — having said my final farewells, i headed to the airport to catch my flight to bangkok. the flight itself was great and we arrived at the new bangkok international airport. the airport has two things which are similar; its incredibly long name (which i don’t remember) and the incredibly long […]