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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 angry, animals, beer, book, breakfast, bukittingi, bus, chess, company, cop, email, fight, hotel, indonesia, lake, laundry, markets, mosquito net, padang, parapat, passengers, police, police station, sleep, sumatra, taxi, tourist haven, tuk tuk, wifi, zoo with no comments
day 281 — today i spent the entire day on the bus. it was a long, boring trip. i managed to get some sleep a few times and i wore ear plugs for most of the trip (to drown out the indo-pop that they insisted on playing at full volume). i talked to the bus […]
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6 October 2009 tagged altitude, altitude sickness, apples, beer, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cards, celebration, chengdu, chess, china, climbing, coffee shop, crowd, customs, dalai lama, delay, dreprung monastery, event, festival, flight, foreigners, guide, headache, immigration, kimchi jiggae, korean food, lhasa, markets, military, norblingka, painkillers, painting, passport, performance, photography, photos, plane, police, potala palace, praying, rain, riot gear, security, shorton festival, sleep, steak, summer palace, tibet, travel, tree, yak with no comments
day 171 — today it rained all day. i’d been spending a lot of money in china, so i decided to stay at the hotel. i chatted online and played chess all day.
day 172 — i packed, checked out of the hotel and went with hokuto to catch our flight to lhasa. customs and immigration were […]
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29 April 2009 tagged art, artists, aung san, bagan, barbeque, barcelona, beer, bicycle, bike, boat, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, bus, canal, catalan, children, cigarette, classrooms, curry, farm, festival, fishing, fishing village, flashlight, food, football, girls, gnocci, guitar, hotel, hti lom min lo pagoda, hydroponic, inle lake, inn dein, juan, juggling, jumping cat monastery, kalaw, kayin, kebab, liverpool, long neck, mandalay, markets, milkshakes, minyein gon pagoda, money, monks, music, myanmar, naung-u, pagodas, paintings, photographer, photographs, photography, pizza, puncture, pya tha da pgaoda, repair, restaurant, school, seaweed, shinya, sleep, sonia, statues, sunrise, sunset, swim, tea, temple, that byin huy temple, thumbs, ticket, tomato, tourists, tshirt, village, wedding, workshop with no comments
day 46 — after another great breakfast on the lawn, i rented a bicycle with the intention of riding into old bagan and exploring the pagodas. about 500 meters from the hotel i got a flat tyre. cursing, i walked the bike back in the direction of the corner i’d passed. an old guy told […]
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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 […]