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5 May 2010 tagged bazaar, bbc, blue dome, breakfast, buffet, camel burger, censorship, chess.com, email, felafel, friends, girls, hotel, internet, iran, key, lonely planet, military service, minaret, mosque, movie, muslim, old city, patrick, photos, prison, sandra, switzerland, tabriz, tea, tehran, ticket, tour, town square, train, travel, tv, walking, wifi, yadz with no comments
day 371 – in the morning, sandra and i attacked the hotel’s buffet breakfast. the buffet wasn’t amazing, but we still had fun eating everything. we ate for two hours and, feeling full, walked it off around yadz. during the walking tour we visited the main mosque (and ended up talking to a group of [...]
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4 May 2010 tagged airport, al fatih mosque, argument, australia, baby, baby chickens, bahrain, bazaar, birthday, boarding, bombs, breakfast, bus, bus driver, canada, castle, chick peas, chicks, cold shower, couple, crying, darius, diary, dinar, dollar, dormitory, drugs, felafel, fight, food, football, france, grotto, homosexual, illegal immigrants, immigration, incredibly homosexual hotel employee, iran, iraq, koran, lahore, magnifying glass, manama, market, mirror, mohammad, money, muslims, national museum, officer, pakistan, persepolis, photos, pouch, prophet, pussy, qu'ran, qu'ran museum, rice, ruins, saddam hussein, samosas, sandra, security, shiite, shiraz, shoes, souk, spain, sunni, taxi, tea, tomb, tour, travel, upgrade, verses, visa, yadz with no comments
day 366 – i had an early start, checked out and headed to the airport. the idiot security officer poked holes in my shoes (checking for bombs or drugs or some shit) which pissed me off. in total i had to take off my shoes three times and the security people were arseholes. in the [...]
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3 May 2010 tagged accordian, bahrain, bbc, beer, birthday, blackout, bus, camera, canon, chai, corrupt, cricket, d10, dahill, driver, drumming, drums, email, flight, foreign, fort, guitar, holiday, hotel, iran, islam, japan, japanese, karachi, kwalli, lahore, manama, markets, mauritius, mausoleum, mohammad, mosque, muslim, navy, old city, olympus, pakistan, pakistani, people, performance, photos, police, prayers, prophet, religion, repair, restoration, robbed, sandra, shawarmas, shinji, shiraz, singing, song, street, sufi, tea, train, travel with no comments
day 361 – in the morning i checked email, then sat with sandra and shinji (a japanese guy at our hotel) downstairs drinking chai. then sandra and i went to the old city to look around. we met a woman who works as part of the old city restoration society. she showed us around and [...]
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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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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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10 October 2009 tagged archery, australian, beer, biscuits, black market, bread, buddhist, cheese, clothes, daughter, department store, dinner, dutch, family, flies, flock, ger, ghenggis khaan, girls, goat, goats, guide, hiking, horse, horse riding, hygene, insurance, ipod, lunch, milk, mongolia, monk, picnic lunch, police, police report, river, sheep, stainless steel, statue, stream, tea, temple, terelj national park, theft, tourist hotel, translation, travel, ulaan bataar, water, yak with no comments
day 191 – a clear routine had started. we had breakfast and said goodbyes. the spanish group were heading back to town and i was staying on for an extra three days. i ended up waiting for what seemed like eternity before they prepared my horse to begin my extended horse riding trek. we finally [...]
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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 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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22 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, baht, bangkok, bar, beer, boom boom, breakfast, buddha, buffet, bus, cash, chicken noodles, dance, dollars, filipino band, fucking, girls, guesthouse, hotel, ice cream, ipod, irish bar, japanese, kao san road, kyats, liverpool, mahamuni paya, mandalay, monastery, money, mosquito, music, myanmar, nightclub, photography, photos, pole dance, prostitutes, rain, restaurant, routine, samosa, shin rameon, shinya, shwe in bin kyaung, skype, statue, tables, tea, thai, thailand, tomato curry, transvestite, visa, water festival, weather, yangon with no comments
day 36 – i finished packing and headed into kao san road for some last minute business … first on the agenda was obtaining enough cash to keep me going in myanmar. the country has no atm machines (due to economic sanctions) so it’s impossible to withdraw money and very few places (mostly expensive hotels) [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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27 January 2009 tagged airport, america, aussie, australia, bath, beer, belgium, blanket, british, bullet train, business class, castle, check in, cieon hilton, cold, couchsurfing, couple, flight, girl, guy, hostel, hotel, japan, japanese, kami suwa, korea, korean, manager, matsumoto, monkey, monorail, mt fuji, nagano, noodles, observation, onsen, photos, rappongi hills, restaurant, seoul, shinkansen, shopping, sky view, snow, tea, ticket, tokyo, tokyo tower, train, upgrade, vegemite with 1 comment
last night i got back from my 3 night, 4 day trip to japan. friday afternoon i headed to the airport and i was worried that i would miss my flight. the bus was caught in traffic. i arrived and headed to check-in when two guys jumped in front of me. i don’t know if [...]