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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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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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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 […]