Travel Blog :: Amazing Places & Crazy Adventures
Street guy gets a meal – Koh Kong, Cambodia
Was drinking a can of beer with my street food dish of noodles (with fried egg, greens, 2 shrimps and bit of squid) when this ragged street guy wanders up to a nearby kiosk of roast meat and innards and just stares longingly into it for 10 minutes … the video says the rest.
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Getting visas for Central Asia – on route
OK, the consensus amid travelers is that Central Asia is an expensive and a time-consuming hassle for obtaining visas. Unfortunately this is mostly true. Simply this region is the biggest hassle in the world BUT it can be eased considerably with some advance planning
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Is the land of smiles beginning to sour – Bangkok, Thailand
As returned to Bangkok’s Khao San Road tourist district I asked myself: Was this a freak day or is the land of smiles turning sour?
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Faces of West Africa
Portrait collection from 6 months of solo overland travels across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Mauritania, Gambia, Benin, Burkina Fuso …
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Meghri-Kapan mountain road – Armenia
SNAPSHOTS FROM THE ROAD (all images as shot in-camera, complete with spotty, dirty windscreen): On an isolated road I attempted to hitch from Maghri to Kapan …
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10 indications you’re a freedom junkie, a travel crazy or simply, insane
4. You don’t accept the manipulative fingers of politics, religion, media hype, social gossip, societal obedience, celebrity worship.
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Christmas in Lalibela – Ethiopia
They remain one the least recognized man-made wonders of the world, yet once the Medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela were known as “The Jerusalem of Ethiopia”.
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Horse trek to Ala-Kol Lake – Kyrgyzstan
I hired a local guide – Chinggis and his horses and set out into the nearby mountains to see peaks, glaciers and the hidden, high-attitude lake of Ala-Kol.
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