Blogs from Asia - page 12993

Hello once again to everybody, It seems like an absolute age since my last post, although that's probably mainly because I've been doing so much. For those of you that don't know, I have now begun my volunteer project in northern Hanoi, and it's so interesting to see the difference between being here as a tourist and as a volunteer. And I've met so many cool Vietnamese people (mainly students) here, and the volunteers are great! Don't seem to have done much volunteering so far though... When I left off last time I had just finished giving you guys my first impressions of Hanoi as a city, and I remember describing my trip to the Perfume Pagoda. I had a great time going around with a tourist group consisting of two suspiciously un-Canadian Canadians (the man ... read more

Now we're back in India. It's more pleasant than I remembered. We're staying in this place called Main Bazaar witch is not that different from Thamel in Katmandu. Lots of hotels, shops with tourist crap and grown men on tricycles. Here the people dont yell at you as much.."buy this and that". Tonight we leave for Chennai which is a lot more south, on the east coast. Maybe the south has nicer people. The Delhi people are pushy and a bit rude. I'm not giving up on India yet. ... read more

Haven't really been blogging lately. Don't really know what to write about. Can't write about Cam any more and don't really have a great feeling about writing about what I do every day all day long - teaching and studying. Not really much of a change. Someone kind of said it once a long time ago when I was blogging, my blog isn't a travel blog and that's what the site's for. I live here and have a life so I haven't really thought that people would want to read about it. The things I could possibly write about are the changes in my daily activities - like yesterday my class had a get together so I went and got to meet a bunch of Germans. There aren't any Germans that I know of besides them ... read more

No rest for the wicked, and frankly, after five days of yoga and holy sites, we were far from wicked. Nonetheless, we had to pop out of the protective hug of Varanasi's old town, into the mind-bogglingly congested streets towards the train station for a 16 hour journey west, to Rajastan and its capital, Jaipur. I say 16 hours. But the train was one and a half hours late by the time it left. It was four hours late after 30km and by the time we reached Jaipur it had taken a bum-numbing 24 hours! Amazing to think that the world can do a complete rotation and we spent the whole thing sat (or laying pressed tight against the ceiling) on a train. Still, it wasn't such a bad journey. We spent the first few hours ... read more

Ahhh.. last night went out for the usual Thursday end-of-week drink session with me buddies.. I started asking them, hey, should i bring my Tibetan dagger along for the trip? It's no Ka-bar.. but it's a Ka-wa! haha.. Kawa is a branded dagger in the Yunnan/Tibet region in China.. made of tibetan steel that can 削铁如泥！shave iron like mud.. dun play play.. they say dagger too small.. and the dagger's more like a ceremonial/souvenir dagger.. melvin then suggested taking adrian's Lord of the Rings sword.. the reforged sword of Isildur.. dunno what new name.. a double handed broad sword.. that should earn some respect.. heh.. Then they said no lah.. cos they'll most probably be carrying guns to rob you, if you encounter them.. so mel suggested, why not buy a gun?? TING! light bulb appeared ... read more