My first stop after the frenetic city of Yangon and a 9 hour overnight bus journey is Bagan. As I get out of the town to cycle to sunrise at the Temples of Bagan – 1200 temples built over a 200 year period of frenzied pagoda building 800 years ago – my horrible sense of direction, which…
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The Reluctant Trekker in Nepal
I actually hate trekking, but now I’m in a country real trekkers would be envious of … Nepal. Well, I’m here now and it would be rude not to take a closer gander at the monstrous Himalayas towering above. I was delighted to meet a Dutch girl who exuded the same if not more negativity as me…
Trundling into Nepal
Time to trundle back down the mountainside to make the 24 hour journey across the border and into Nepal. After 4 hours squeezed in the back of one jeep, I then transferred into another… with 12 others… who knew it was even possible to fit so many adults into one very ordinary sized jeep? I…
Calcutta Days
So it wasn’t love at first sight – Calcutta that is – my night time arrival and the worst hotel ever put a stop to that, but the coming days in the old capital city of India proved there’s more to this place than first meets the eye. The warm and friendly people, the yummy street food and melting…
Sleeping streets of Calcutta
Calcutta at 11 o’clock on a Tuesday night. Not my usual choice of arrival time, but it was unavoidable. Sleeping bodies lined the streets…5, 10, 15 in a row lying perpindicular to the crumbling buildings while shoeless shirtless destitutes rummage through garbage around abandoned bicycles and rickshaws. My taxi careers through the bumpy streets avoiding the worrying number of vehicles with no…
Scottish Girl Runs 