A tale of a beautiful rucksack

While I walking along the street in Kuala Lumpur, I was stopped by a man who had taken a fancy to my rucksack, he wanted to know all about it, where I’d gotten it, how much it cost, he must have really loved my rucksack!
We finally moved on from endless questions about my beautiful rucksack [...]

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Reading Asia

One of the first things I did when I got out of Myanmar and arrived in KL was to read a book, not just any book but a book called “Video Night in Kathmandu”.
What was interesting about the book was that it went to a lot of the places that I’ve been to this year [...]

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Worms

It’s all about glowworms when you go to Waitomo and this being New Zealand there’s an easy way and a hard way to see the worms, so no doubt you know which particular option we took!
Dressed in wetsuits and wellies, hardhats at a jaunty angle we made our way to the dark crevice to begin [...]

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Flying High

I took a little airplane ride yesterday, and when I say little I mean the size of the plane, it was the smallest plane I’ve ever been in, just enough space for eight of us and the pilot. It was a quick take-off and soon enough we were flying over the countyside and through the [...]

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Rolling, rolling, rolling….

Step 1: dive into the strange-looking big plastic ballStep 2: Add a little waterStep 3 stand up and face down the hillStep 4 run down the hill.
Sounds easy doesn’t it?
This is Zorbing. I’m in New Zealand now and going downwards in new and interesting ways is a bit of a hobby here. There are two [...]

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Mandalay

A big thing we as tourists are told to do is to climb Mandalay Hill, I didn’t need to be told twice! I hadn’t done any research on what was needed to scale the beast I just arrived at the foot of the hill. Before I was allowed to set foot on the trail I [...]

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You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

There used to be a television show called the Prisoner where every week our dashing hero tried to escape from this strange little town, naturally each time her failed or was captured just as it looked like success was within reach, leaving him back where he started for the start of the next episode. Hsipaw [...]

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Travelling again

There was a flash of light and where there was once a pile of small animals and vegetables there now stood a proud steed, a resplendant carraige and a smartly dressed driver. I, in my usual scruffy travelling clothes boarded the carraige and away we went, proceeding through the town at a stately pace…..
Our destination [...]

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May the Force be with you

I had mixed feelings about going to see Mandalayု Palace, I’d spent the morning rambling through the streets of Mandalay and found myself at the corner of the palace walls and started to walk along them….
The area enclosed by the palace walls is huge, each side of the square is 2km long and it takes [...]

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Bagan

Imagine yourself standing in the middle of a plain, in front of you is an old paya, it’s beautiful and when you’re finished admiring it you spin slowly in a circle and there are more payas whereever you look, some are close and some are far, just shapes sticking up against the horizon. This is [...]

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