Elephants and tigers and leeches, oh my!
10 Nov 2008: Somewhere in the bowels of Taman Negara, the oldest rainforest in the world, eating glorified pot noodles, whilst pulling a reluctant burrowing leech from my trainer.
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Cambodia Flash
A full passport is every traveler’s dream – until it becomes an immigration nightmare.
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A Chance Encounter on the Road from Cape Town to Cairo
“Do you want to come on my felucca?” “Later?” “Tomorrow?” “Next week?” “Next life?” Egypt was wearing me down. The patience that I had built up through Africa was rapidly being eroded. A vulnerable veneer of...
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If you re lucky
If you’re lucky, one day, you’ll get to go to this village, named Odede. You won’t find it on a ma; to get there, go to the matatu station in Kisumu, and ask someone for the right bus. Then, pray they’ll tell you where...
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Snake Village
Snake Village. To some, it sounds like hell, to others, the least imaginatively named area in the world, but to us, it represented the ultimate test of our manliness. Just getting to the village was hard...
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An Addendum
I’ve been lucky to have done some really neat things in my life drive the Alaska Highway, hike Nepal’s Annapurna Circuit, swim on Wake Island. And one thing has always been for sure: when you...
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Travel To Spain; My Unforgettable Experience
My travel to Spain to see the historical places and other Spain attractions was not only a dream come true but turned out to be the most unforgettable experience while on travel abroad of this island...
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A Lasting Harvest
The vines clung to the trellis in their last attempt for salvation. So heavy with fruit they hung, enduring their labor pains, thirsty for one more day of sun. The final days of August revealed scorched...
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Lifes a Picnic
Kyrgyzstan is a once-in-a-lifetime destination with spectacular mountain scenery and outstanding trekking but it’s the people who make it an experience you’ll never forget.
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