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Travel Advice – What to take

5 Oct

Sure I know there’s plenty of advice out there on this particular theme – and it’s subject to individual needs and the purpose and duration of their trip but what-the-hell here’s my offering for those on the road for many months, this list mostly based on the contents of my backpack now spread across the floor of my hotel room here in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone.

  • DOCUMENTS – hidden money-belt with a Passport that has plenty of pages and a long life (6 months or less until expiration will be refused visas by most embassies).

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Travel Advice – Hitch-hiking

5 Oct

Travel Advice – Hitch-hiking

First, let me outline my experience. I have hitched the Sahara in 1991, north to south, across Algeria into Niger; have gone overland – which was mostly hitching – from England to India, via Europe, Iran & Pakistan, in 1990; I’ve hitched across the Tibetan Plateau and over the Himalayan high passes into Nepal in 1994; I hitch-hiked across the desert from Jordan to Iraq in 1989 and across Northern Kenya into Ethiopia in 1994, and there’s also been dozens of smaller journeys in numerous countries ranging from New Zealand to Vietnam to Morocco to Scotland to Uruguay, etc, so here are some tips.

Hitching to Ethiopia, by truck across northern Kenya

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Travel Advice – 101

3 Oct

Travel advice for backpacking in the Developing World [written here in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa].  These rules are the somewhat-obvious ones but hey, they are your opening to an easier journey.

  • Get interested in a country or region, read, surf the web but don’t plan too intensely; better to have plenty of time and see what happens … be flexible; go with the flow. Plans change. (more…)
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